Tumara has been involved in theater since he was a child, always making believe and acting. Tumara has performed with such people as Kathleen Turner, Tess Harper, Sam Harris and the musical group Alabama
Tumara has been involved in the art of female impersonation for over 20 years now and has captured numerous titles and awards. Tumara was only the third Miss Gay Missouri to ever finish in the top five as third alternate to Leslie Rage, Miss Gay America 1993. Tumara then believing in the dream of wanting to be remembered nationally, entered and won on her first try, the national pageant “Miss Continental Plus” in 2000
Today Tumara owns her own business in St Louis and is also the show director of the “Magnolia’s Blossoms” and the current owner and promoter of the Miss Gay Missouri Pageant Association. She is known to all as a dedicated soul to the craft and as the “Showgirl of the Midwest”

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Alexis has been a huge part of education and fundraising in the HIV/AIDS community for many years. She currently serves as Director of Volunteer Services and special events for Planned Parenthood of NW Ohio And she always on the lookout for a few good men and woman to help out. Alexis is currently recruiting for a range of volunteer positions with the agency. To help go to their local website which is www.ppnwo.org this might still under construction so if you have a problem go to the national site which is www.ppfa.org . You be surprised at the difference you can make.
Note from Vicki Rene: This is another example of just one performer, giving back and helping out…this is a fine person and one I would like to meet and someday call a good friend.

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The following is from an article written in the Creative Loafing Charlotte, Inc, NC, USA. Big boobs, big hair, big lips and a big personality -- Look out Charlotte, it's Tamalah Taylor. You can catch the "seductive and sensational Ms. Tamalah" doing the comic/MC/songstress thing at Sensations, where she uses her voluminous talents to entertain. She's come quite a long way from the little boy who grew up in the tiny, conservative town of Phoenix City, AL.
"I don't remember any gender identities being laid out to me when I was growing up," Tamalah said. "I always thought I was a girl until I went to school and they told me I wasn't. When they called me a boy, I just told them they were mistaken." Tamalah says this with the emphatic little head and neck waddle that only women can truly pull off. "I was picked on at school, but I didn't have this conflicted, tortured childhood. There was never a time when I experimented with 'being straight.' I knew from as early as I can remember that I was a girl. I didn't consider myself gay, I considered myself a heterosexual female."
When Tamalah was 18, her mother took her to the doctor for psychological evaluations. "They were backwoods Alabama people and had no idea what to do with me."
Tamalah's parents then took her to Auburn University for a series of physical tests. "According to the doctor I had XX and XY chromosomes. He said, 'OK this is a bona-fide medical condition, what do you want to do?'"
What Tamalah wanted to do was get sex-reassignment surgery -- in other words, go from an outy to an innie. "It wasn't supposed to be there," Tamalah explained.
She also had female hormone replacement therapy and breast implants. Now, not only did she feel like a woman, she looked like one -- and a bombshell to boot. "It was awesome," she says.
Both before and after the surgery, she presented herself as a woman, and was often asked out by men. "I figured what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them, as long as I didn't sleep with them. I did eventually tell them, but not right off the bat. And knock on wood, every man I ever went out with never had a problem with it. Some were a little freaked, but most were like, hey, let's give this a try."
Tamalah left Alabama when she was 23 and moved to Atlanta. She soon got a job at a place called Lipsticks singing, dancing and doing comedy. She lived in Atlanta for about five years, after which she moved to Raleigh. There she danced and stripped at several clubs, where she said no one suspected she was born a male. She continued stripping at men's clubs after she moved to Charlotte in the mid-90s. Today, the 30-something Tamalah ("You know you don't ask a lady her age") believes she's found her niche at the more "alternative" Sensations. "I love attention, I'm spoiled, and I'm a natural born performer, so I'm doing what I do best. Right now life is pretty great."

She is the former Miss Warehouse29, can be seen regularly at Club Odyssey in Winston Salem NC. Miss Creole 2002
Updated Aug 24, 2009 She is the newly crowned Miss Gay Raleigh America 2009

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I don’t know much about this fantastic looking lady except she is from the beautiful islands of Hawaii and was the 2003 Universal Show Queen.

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You can see this pretty lady performing in Orlando, Florida

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She is a performer at Martha's Vineyard in Springfield Missouri. She also is a costume designer for the Springfield Little Theatre.

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She resides in Charlotte, NC and is the current reigning Miss Hickory America. She is a fabulous entertainer as well as an awesome individual. She usually performs at Scorpio's in Charlotte, but occasionally travels throughout NC to different clubs.