CHARLOTTE DRAG BRUNCH ::: BUFF FAYE'S DRAG BRUNCH :: VOTED #1 BEST DRAG BRUNCH
Charlotte's #1 Best Drag Brunch & Diner: Serving THE Carolinas Since 2009
CHARLOTTE DRAG BRUNCH
Buff Faye's Drag Brunch & Diners represent the oldest & longest-running in the Carolinas - VOTED THE #1 BEST OF THE BEST. We strive to create an inclusive safe space for all audiences to enjoy fun,high-quality, creative & diverse entertainment celebrating the life, history & culture of our LGBTQ+ & ally community.
About Buff Faye
Buff Faye is proud to be an active, visible leader and does drag as a way to bring awareness and visibility to the LGBTQ+ community. In 2012, Buff was chosen as Creative Loafing's "Best of the Best" Drag Entertainer and Q-Notes Best of Charlotte Drag Queen. Her drag brunch was chosen in 2020 for Charlotte Magazine's Best of the Best Award for "Best Drag Brunch" and in 2022 by Elevate Magazine as the "#1 Best of the Best" Drag Show. For five years she wrote a monthly column “Dishing with Buff Faye” for Q-Notes Carolinas newspaper and is the only drag queen to be featured on both front page/covers of Creative Loafing and The Charlotte Observer. Currently, Buff Faye has her own podcast twice a month on the Queen City Podcast Network with her sidekick Funsize.
Since Buff started doing drag in 2008, she has accomplished many things including being crowned 2019 National Entertainer of the Year and competing in the Miss Gay America placing 5th alternate in 2022. Buff also won the 2022 Miss Gay Southern America and the regional title of 2018 Miss Gay SouthEast America and finished as second alternate at National Entertainer of the Year in 2018. She is a former 2017 North Carolina Entertainer of the Year, FI Prior to this, Buff was a former Miss Charlotte Pride and Miss Hideaway At Large.
Out of drag, Buff Faye is better known as Shane Windmeyer, a nationally recognized speaker, educator and best-selling author of six books including The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, Out on Fraternity Row, Brotherhood and Secret Sisters.
Windmeyer has been featured on IN THE LIFE TV and his work has been the focus of national attention from CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC’s The Situation with Tucker Carlson, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, OUT Magazine, The Advocate National Gay & Lesbian News Magazine and TIME Magazine.
Windmeyer has a masters degree in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Emporia State University.
FOOD, FUN & DRAG SINCE 2009 :: CELEBRATING OVER 15+ YeARS OF BUILDING COMMUNITY
NATIVE INDIGENOUS OWNED & OPERATED
Shane Mendez Windmeyer (aka Buff Faye) is a Native Indigenous business owner and member of the Iowa Tribe of KS & NE. The Iowa Tribe (Ioway Indians) is best known today as the tribe for whom the state of Iowa was named. By the time white settlers first entered Iowa in the mid 1800s, the Ioway Indians moved their villages into northern Missouri, due to pressure and incessant warfare in Iowa between the Sioux in the northern and western parts of the state and the Sauk and Meskwaki in the southern and eastern parts of the state. Archaeologists call the sites of the ancestral Ioway Oneota, after one the names for the Upper Iowa River, where such sites were first located. Other closely related tribes such as Otoe, Missouri, Winnebago, and Omaha also participated in the Oneota culture.
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CHARLOTTE DRAG BRUNCH & DINERS
Drag is what we do! Owned and operated "by" and "for" drag queens, we started our business in 2009 creating unique, memorable drag entertainment. Our mission is to foster an inclusive safe space for all audiences to enjoy fun, high-quality, creative & diverse drag entertainment celebrating the life, history & culture of the LGBTQ+ & ally community. Together we can change the world and make a positive impact.