When he isn't performing for children, "Muffy Fishbasket" performs with partners including "Edie Moorcock." | Muffy Fishbasket
When he isn't performing for children, "Muffy Fishbasket" performs with partners including "Edie Moorcock." | Muffy Fishbasket
Thousands of children aged 4-12 will attend a day camp run by San Francisco-based national operator "Steve and Kate's" this summer.
But only in Chicago will they get to meet "Muffy Fishbasket," a "drag queen" who, when he isn't entertaining kids, performs at north side nightclubs with a fellow male cross-dresser named "Edie Moorecock."
Muffy is headlining the posted Steve and Kate's schedule for day camps in Lincoln Park, North Center, the West Loop and Oak Park during the week of June 19, themed for "Juneteenth/Pride." Attendees will be implored to "wear Rainbow," dressing up in LGBTQ- honoring colors
Chicago's "Steve and Kate's" kids' camp will host a drag queen the week of June 19; In Dallas, kids will do a fire department show and tell.
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Dallas children attending Steve and Kate's that same week have a more pedestrian entertainment lineup, according to a review of company camp schedules by Chicago City Wire.
They'll learn archery, make whipped-cream pies (Pie Day!), sit for a "fire department show & tell" complete with a "real fire engine" and firefighter gear, and be forced to play in a "Dinosaur-themed Water Slide/Bounce House, where kids can climb up a towering volcano,"
Of the company's 59 scheduled day camps across the U.S. this summer, Steve and Kate's is planning June "gay pride"-themed activities only in Chicago, New York City and Austin, according to its web site.
Two of eight New York City camps are planning "Rainbow Week," the week of June 26th, according to posted schedules. One of Austin's two camps will have a "Rainbow Funhouse Bouncer" the same week, along with a Slip-n-Silde and kids "group Yoga session."
No cross-dressers are on tap to appear at Steve and Kate's camps in New York, Texas or any of ten others states where they are scheduled. That includes in San Francisco itself, where June session campers at the city's Dianne Feinstein Elementary School will participate in rock climbing and inflatable castles, sans "drag queens."
According to a fan page, Fishbasket is "best known for competing on the first season of Camp Wannakiki," a Youtube reality show.
He competed alongside a fellow cross-dresser named "Pagan Holladay," whose "signature style" is "fashioning wayward stuffed animals into dementedly adorable accessories."
The page says the name "Muffy" comes from a "post apocalyptic musical parody of Annie he wrote with friends."
In 2021, Steve & Kate's Camp was purchased by U.S. child care provider Bright Horizons. The company also owns Chicago-based online "caregiver" marketplace Sittercity, which it bought in 2020.
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