Librarian by day, Lourdes the Merry Virgin by night
Lourdes the Merry Virgin is the latest subject of Canada's a Drag, a weekly docu-series from CBC Arts that showcases drag artists from across the true North strong and fabulous.
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Four years ago, Edmonton librarian Jonathan Busch was feeling depressed. But after considering going into therapy, he decided to take a more unlikely route to remediation: he start doing drag.
"I assessed the cost of therapy, and I was like, 'Well, at least with drag I'd get to keep stuff.' And I'd heard RuPaul describe drag as therapy so I was like, 'OK, we'll do that.'"
On that fateful day, Lourdes the Merry Virgin — Busch's drag alter ego and the centre of our Edmonton episode of Canada's a Drag — was born.
What started as therapy turned into what Busch calls "an ongoing creative research project."
"Lourdes and Jonathan are essentially the same person," he says. "I think that's one brilliant element about drag is that it has, against my will, crafted for me a fictional character out of my own skin and ideas about living. That and I get to become a sexy bombshell like the ones I idolized from my childhood."
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