The recently Glam-nominated bartender has gone on an incredible journey, and is now the King of C’mon. Behold, Butch Molly!
Bar that I work at: C’mon Everybody
How long I’ve worked there: since like 2021.
What are my shifts: Wednesday, Friday, Sunday
What makes this bar great: it feels like home, like our gay living room. I’ve cried over women, gotten cheered up by gay guys, watched tv, ate dinner with drag queens, we have a back line (the thing you plug all the instruments into) so we can do full kit band shows/ live music, the atmosphere is cozy, some nights raunchy, and every type of queer comes. We truly have something for everybody: from yes gay guy jockstrap underwear night, to dyke DJ set, literary events, comedy, live music, drag, Pierce’s Bimbo Movie Hour, our tiny art gallery curated by Ian Stearns. It has so much vibrant queer life and energy.
Best drink I make: I can make all the classics obviously, but I love to be creative. I love when someone says “I’m drinking gin and I like fruity,” “I’m drinking tequila and I don’t like sweet.” Give me an adjective. Jamie makes our menu and curates our collection of syrups, juices, and liqueurs and it’s fun to experiment with all of them.
I love it when customers: get home safe, pay cash—gossip with me, talk about music or the world
I hate it when customers: tap to pay😭 When did everybody decide to stop carrying cash? The demon twinks leave home with just their phone!
Craziest thing I’ve seen here: I have cleaned up every bodily fluid— let’s set the bar there. I once watched Xana Whoria jump onto the back bar, leap into the air into the crowd while throwing a dollar into the air, and the dollar burst into flames and disappeared. I’ve felt music that made the room vibrate.
Other places I’ve worked: Metro and Macri, a few pizza places, a beer garden, a grocery store, some coffeeshops and building stuff for queers through @butch4hire
My hometown: Northern NJ & the NYC metro area. I can’t pump gas and I’ll never learn!!! #jerseyprincess
Stuff I do when I’m not bartending: I’m alwaysss listening to music, wood working, oil painting, dancing around my apartment like a ballerina in boxers
Single or Taken: No diva, I’m the Dyke Whore of Babylon. I am a thoroughly modern faggot!
Who/what turns me on: bratty femmes, cruising, older women, being butt naked at a bathhouse, when the dance floor is empty during sound check, vinyl, people who prefer phone calls to texts, crooked teeth
Favorite music: I made you a disorganized messy playlist of my favorite songs that span a bunch of the genres I love☺️
Favorite movie or TV show: Golden Girls, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scooby Doo, Tomboy, Bound
Favorite drag queen: 300 drag queens follow me on Instagram! I can’t chose one person. I have love for every diva I’ve ever zipped into a dress or gossiped with in the green room while grabbing a bucket of ice, I love so many of the performers that have rolled through C’mon Everybody: Zavaleta and everybody I’ve met at BitchFest. Julie J, Mini Horrorwitz & Angelica Sundae, Miz Jade, Vena Cava, Chata, Untitled, MissMa’amShe, MTHR TRSA, Blue & Rayne. Ella Fartzgerald singing is a show stopping must see. Bibingka Mama and Crystal Hart’s food pop up on Thursdays is game changing. Everything from the brilliant mind of Paris!
Favorite Drag King: Welll obviously the cast of Fagnet: God Complex, ShowPonii, Mauve. And while Mikey might be in school right now for healthcare, he is a drag legend and I’m happy to get to work with him behind the bar. I love visiting C’etait BonTemps at their new cafe, soft butch. ShowPonii too.
Favorite Drag Thing: Xanawhoria, Defacto Obsolete if you’re a fan of serious body horror.
My drag name would be: Jack Noff
Favorite gogo boys: Boy Radio, Johnny, Elliot
Favorite DJ: Hope 808, DJ Luna Rosa, James Barker, Maya Margaritas, Sean McMahill, AlexHelln
Other stuff you need to know about me: I am very thankful for all nightlife has done for me, and many friends, divas and kings I didn’t get to mention here. Both me and my younger sister were runaways. I became my sisters sole legal guardian in 2020 when she was 15 and I was 20. The community’s support— the Ali Forney Center, to Callen Lorde’s HOTT program, HMI, all the advice of my friends, Daniel teaching me how to bartend, the job stability I had thanks to Mike and Eric at C’mon Everybody, Ty for keeping me humble, Elyssa for putting up with me— made it possible for my sister’s remaining childhood to be happy and with less worries and for me to experience parenthood. She is in college now and I am very proud. If you are reading this & know me— you helped carry me through what will likely be one of the most difficult chapters of my life and for that I’ll be forever grateful, and forever indebted to my community.
Follow me on: Instagram
Tip me at: @butchmolly on Venmo
Thotyssey 