Church leaders irked by a group of cross-dressers staging a racy brunch show next to their Midtown house of worship say it’s not such a drag after all.
The Rev. Richard Baker of St. Malachy’s Catholic Church on 49th Street stepped back from his demands that Lillie’s restaurant stop the show, sources said, in a peacemaking conference call in which he agreed to go along with their “Breakfast at Epiphany’s” brunch and the cross-dressers agreed to cancel their protest outside the church.
Epiphany Get Paid, the drag queen who planned the protest, sang at the brunch as planned yesterday.
“It was a misunderstanding,” she said.
Staffers from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office mediated the conference call.
Baker didn’t return requests for comment by press time.