It's the latest chapter in the mainstreaming of drag kings. Director Sonia Slutsky and producer Nigel Noble (the team behind the New York Times Television's "Portraits of Grief") are filming the tour for a documentary, tentatively titled "On the Road with the Kings," to air this fall or winter on the Discovery Health channel. For three weeks, the kings - Carlos Las Vegas, Ken Las Vegas, Christopher, Luster and Pat Riarch - will tool around in a Winnebago, performing in places like Jackson, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn. Whitmire's Johnny Kat is the opening act for Kingdom Come, a touring cavalcade that will take five of North America's best-known drag kings throughout the South and Midwest. "But I got the softie last year and it's fun having that realness in my pants." But she'll use it anyway, because when you're a drag king, you have to pack with something. Truthfully, Whitmore's softie - covered with a thin layer of fuzz and lint - is pretty sad-looking. She has everything she needs to transform herself into her alter ego, Johnny Kat: his trademark '70s denim and leather patchwork bell-bottomed suit hair clippings from a recent cut that she'll use for his mutton chops and, of course, the package - a small, pliable "softie" that resembles a flaccid penis. In the cramped basement dressing room of a tiny club in New York's East Village, Stacey Whitmire, 28, prepares to take the stage.
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