BEVERLY, Mass. — Brian O’Connor's days are like any other typical nine-to-fiver. He wakes at 6 a.m., has his breakfast and coffee, feeds his dog Dixie, says goodbye to his spouse and goes to work at a rehab facility, where he has been a nursing assistant for more than a decade.
But by night, O’Connor, 36, takes on a different role, that of drag queen Kristi Kreamm, who takes her name from the sugar-coma-inducing Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
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Brian O'Connor with his dog Dixie. O'Connor's drag queen persona Kristi Kreamm will be one of the performers at the Drag Queen Story Hour at Conway Public Library June 28. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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Kristi Kreamm before winning Lip Sync Queen 2018 at the Breezeway Pub in Manchester. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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Kristi Kreamm in Salem, Mass., hosting the Rainbow Times Pride Sunset Cruise in 2017. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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Kristi Kreamm performing at a Halloween show in Nashua in 2017. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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