Donnarama

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Donnarama is a Toronto-based performance artist and drag queen.

Donnarama was honored by NOW Magazine in 2006 as one of the "200 Reasons Toronto Rocks" as an accomplished drag queen and celebrity impersonator. A television special on CBC in 2006 featured Donnarama as Canada's premiere Barbra Streisand impersonator. She has been performing since 1997 in Toronto's Gay Village. She has contributed interviews and essays in the gay Canadian magazine fab. An interview by her of Shirley Manson (of Grammy-nominated Garbage) appeared in the magazine in 2005. In October 2004, Donnarama was featured on the cover of Xtra!, followed by receiving the title of The Coors Light Queen Of Halloween.^[1] She is the winner of Drag Idol 2007, the annual PWA fundraiser and 8 week competition, claiming the largest drag pageant prize in Canada.^{[citation needed]} Donnarama is the recipient of an LGBT award for contribution to arts and culture.^{[citation needed]}

Donnarama has also been the resident performer at Shane Percy's Grapefruit for the past five years. Grapefruit is currently Toronto's longest running gay dance party.