Oh Hi!  Empress Karina here.  You caught me just as I was about to grab myself just a mere morsel of food.  Running these pageants sure burns the calories, don't you know?  Well, let me assure you that it does, just as much as running around like Tintin is, snapping all these pretty photographs.  But I digress.  Tintin asked me if I would introduce the entertainments that are offered during those lacunae which occur as contestants are changng clothes.  These voids would othewise prove somewhat tedious.  Instead, the audience is offered a cornucopia of performance delights, as you will see.

So anyway, let me lead you through the evening's entertainment

Well, here is me, introducing the first act.  But enough of me, here is the reigning Miss Long Beach Gay Pride

So excited she knocked her shoes and hair off!!

Next to entertain was Regent Emperor Rosco, doing that matador-y thing he does so well

Then it was an Imperial Crown Prince Leather Guy

Then we had a little Court business - investing people and such

"I dub thee once, I dub thee twice, I dub thee three times over"

A quick number by a "bear" with a collar

And then it was time for a performance by last year's
Miss Gay Pride Los Angeles - Amiya