{"id":41220,"date":"2017-06-05T18:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41220"},"modified":"2017-06-05T18:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:55:37","slug":"drag-star-noel-leon-stops-traffic-at-one-of-the-last-shows-at-miamis-legendary-palace-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41220","title":{"rendered":"Drag Star Noel Leon Stops Traffic at One of the Last Shows at Miami&#8217;s Legendary Palace Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41221\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41221\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/noel-leon-1-560x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/noel-leon-1-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/noel-leon-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/noel-leon-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/noel-leon-1.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, iconic drag star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/missnoelleon\/?hl=en\"><strong>Noel Leon<\/strong><\/a> once again stopped traffic at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PalaceOceanDrive\/\">Palace Bar&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>famous Sunday brunch, on Ocean Drive in Miami. Unfortunately, this is one of the last high-kicking street performances at the legendary LGBT bar\/restaurant&#8230;since the space has been sold, and is closing its doors on July 4th weekend.\u00a0Palace Bar has been the #1 hotspot in South Beach for the past 29 years, and is currently looking for a new home. Queens that started their careers at Palace, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/geraldine.queencabaret?fref=mentions\"><b>Geraldine<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/missymeyakie.lepaige\"><strong>Missy Meyakie LePaige<\/strong><\/a>, Noel Leon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tplords\/?hl=en\"><strong>TP Lords<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tiffanyfantasia\/?hl=en\"><strong>Tiffany Fantasia<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/strong> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/latriceroyale\/?hl=en\"><strong>Latrice Royale<\/strong><\/a>, are expected to hit the street-stage at Palace for their closing show. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/miamibeach\/queens-palace-celebrate-next-chapter-south-beach-s-iconic-drag-venue-weekly-shows\">Miami Beach Patch<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Donall (Palace owner)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The truth of the matter is that this situation presents us with a fantastic opportunity to grow,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe\u2019re going to find a new place that has the same character but offers a bigger performance space that better suits the needs of our changing community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out Noel Leon&#8217;s performance below, as well as a flashback of Latrice Royale!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDjcarlosrojas%2Fvideos%2F10154644869013193%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=225\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ef0eWHYjnLg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j30cC3tZ9WQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, iconic drag star Noel Leon once again stopped traffic at Palace Bar&#8217;s\u00a0famous Sunday brunch, on Ocean Drive in Miami. Unfortunately, this is one of the last high-kicking street performances at the legendary LGBT bar\/restaurant&#8230;since the space has been sold, and is closing its doors on July 4th weekend.\u00a0Palace Bar has been the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3465,1621,7359,2405,6934,7360,7361,58,7364,7363,7362,6197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41225,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions\/41225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}