A biography for Alyssa Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.”
“I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.”
“People know I like to laugh and have a good time. Even when I'm sassy, it's still kind of stupid-silly.”
“I'm kind of living a Bruce Wayne life and then morphing into Batman, but I'm glad now Batman comes out during the day. That's kind of like how drag was: we were called upon at night to make people smile and laugh and clap.”
“I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.”
“It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.”
“My father was very strict.”
“I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'”