The Baltimore Drag Awards were launched in 2018 by Ryan Butler, who is known by his drag queen name Brooklyn Heights, and another drag queen, Betty Ohellno, at the Creative Alliance.
Baltimore County was a steppingstone for people like Thurgood Marshall, who tried integrating a Black student to the then-all-white Catonsville High School before the famous Brown v. Board of Education case; pitstops for presidents Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy before they took over The White House; and the birthplace of Benjamin Banneker.
After two years of cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean carnival is set to return to Baltimore at Lake Clifton Park. The two-day festival will include a parade, live music, food and much more family-friendly entertainment.
At the Banner, I hope to show that Baltimore is a creative powerhouse and how dance, music and visual art are a part of the city’s rich cultural history.
Our lives are forever marked by the pandemic years. We are different people than before. We saw death, yet life went on. I restored a broken-down rowhouse in Baltimore.