How Drag Queens Took over Bingo

Hostess Glamazonia with costume contest winners at Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s Gay Bingo. One of the first things you learn at drag queen bingo is that if you can’t take being picked on, you keep your mouth shut.

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Wed, May 2nd, 2007

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  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
  • The MGM Grand, situated on the a Las Vegas strip has come up with a brand new slogan to promote the casino, "Think of all the New Year's resolutions you'll break." Some say it might even rival the famous Las Vegas catchphrase, "What happens here, stays here."
  • 2000: MGM Grand Inc. stages the gaming industry's largest corporate buyout with its $6 million purchase of Mirage Resorts Inc.
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