What is The House
Of Debbie?
A
lot of people have asked me this question, so I figured
this is the perfect place to let you know the story behind
it.
Several years ago, when I lived in St. Louis, we used to
have fun making up and using different words to describe
events, places and things. You can see a compilation of
some of these terms on this page (You might want to get
familiar with it, you might easily get lost in the
vocabulary). But one word that we used a lot was the word
'Debbie'... you see at that time the word meant several
things: 1) a generic name for someone that you are talking
about or 'reading'... kinda like a gay person calling
someone else 'Mary'... and 2) a low heeled shoe, which is a
signed of a horrible, or 'booger' drag queen... wearing
anything less than a 3-inch heel, especially in a evening
gown is a debbie...
Anyway, with that description out of the way, a few friends
that hung out a lot becamne a secondary family; a clique or
house, if you will, out of SHEER boredom for doing anything
in St. Louis. So while we went out to bars, we mostly hung
out at each others' house, went to movies, and especially
all the female impersonation contests as a group. And we
'acted up' wherever we went. So throwing together a name
this group became amongst ourselves "The House of
Debbie"... and this page becomes a interactive tribute to
those people that are members of that group.