\u201cWe\u2019re at the club, at the club at 2 a.m.,\u201d one student\u00a0suggested.\u00a0\u201cBecause nothing good happens in the club after 2 a.m.”<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson laughed and wrote it on the board. The students wove an exciting tale\u00a0about the life of club-goers in which rapper 50 Cent kills a D.J. for calling him \u201chalf dollar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly 2 a.m. the next morning at PT’s 1109 on Assembly Street, Patti O’Furniture is closing out the club’s weekly free drag show. She closes the show with the same goodbye she’s used for the last 20 years: <\/span>“On behalf of me, and my big old balloon-titties, it’s time for me to say tatas!”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A very different sign-off than the “see you all next class” that Patterson used to dismiss his students a few hours before.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t tell my students that I perform,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a secret, but I don\u2019t go out of my way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson was a professor long before he created Patti O’Furniture. He began performing drag in 1998 when a University of South Carolina\u00a0LGBT student group\u00a0was lacking motivation to fundraise for its annual drag show, \u201cBirdcage.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey only needed to raise $500, but none of them thought they could do it,\u201d said Patterson, the group’s faculty advisor at the time. \u201cI told them that if they raised the money, I\u2019d go up in drag and emcee.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The students had the money the next week.<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson, in disbelief they were actually able to raise the money,\u00a0asked some friends for advice at a Labor Day party.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was going to go to Party City and get a wig and a Wonder Woman costume, but [my friends] really came together,\u201d said Patterson. \u201cIt was like that scene in Cinderella where her dress gets torn up and all the mice run away and come back and make her a dress. All my friends dispersed and came back with different gags: wigs, shoes, boas, makeup \u2013 all of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tommy Starling, a friend of Patterson\u2019s for more than 20 years, was among those making donations. Starling began calling Patti O’Furniture “the yard sale with legs,\u201d and it\u00a0stuck.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe were excited to see his comedic take on classic songs while wearing borrowed hand-me-downs,\u201d Starling said,\u00a0reminiscing<\/span>\u00a0on the weekend. \u201cThe ideas were fantastic!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson knew that if he was going to perform, comedy had to be a part of his show. So he decided to emcee the Birdcage as a camp queen. Camp drag is a traditional style of drag presenting an over-the-top, theatrical impersonation of a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n W<\/span>hen Patterson pitched his original persona, \u201cKrystal Stone: clear as crystal, hard as stone,\u201d to his friends, they immediately shot it down.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou need a name where when people hear it, they know not to take you seriously,\u201d one friend, Tiffany Cribb, told Patterson. \u00a0Cribb thought that Krystal Stone sounded too much like the name of an \u201880s soap opera star; she pitched Patti O’Furniture as a replacement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson was on board immediately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was like yes, that\u2019s it \u2014 it resonates with me in so many ways,\u201d Patterson said.<\/span><\/p>\n RuPaul, host of “RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,” listed it as one of the least creative drag names of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGuess I\u2019m not gettin\u2019 on that show,\u201d Patti laughed. \u201cWhat ever will I do?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson claims\u00a0Patti wouldn\u2019t have blended with the Drag Race look anyhow. According to him, RuPaul\u2019s contestants are usually female impersonators who present as women; it is a very different look than Patti\u2019s campy style.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t hide my arms, I don\u2019t do my nails, my boobs are made out of balloons \u2014 I\u2019m in on the joke,\u201d Patti said. \u201cThat\u2019s been one of two constants in my career: balloon tits, and every dollar I raise on stage goes to charity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Over his 20 years of performing as Patti, Patterson has raised more than $1.4 million for a multitude of charities and uses\u00a0the stage to raise awareness for, and give a voice to, important causes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe love that Pat throws his passion for helping the community and raising much-needed funds into an art,\u201d Starling said. \u201cHis shows give people a break from reality and allow others to come together for the greater good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n For Patterson, performing in drag as Patti O’Furniture has always been provocative and a strong political tool that can be used\u00a0to make the world better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat we do isn’t just a toss away; there\u2019s a message, always. Drag queens always lead the pride marches, drag queens are political figures who fight,\u201d Patterson, speaking as Patti O’Furniture, said.\u00a0\u201cWe can use our attention to encourage people to vote, to encourage people to get involved, to encourage people to speak their minds and not to tear down other people in the process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson has been surrounded by politicians and community activists since birth. His grandfather, the late Olin Johnston, was a South Carolina governor and U.S. senator; his mother, the late Elizabeth \u201cLiz\u201d Patterson, was the second woman from South Carolina to be elected to the S.C.\u00a0Senate and the first to be elected to Congress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy parents are my\u00a0heroes,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cThey were both leaders in the community, but they did not seek to have their names on things. They didn\u2019t seek credit, they just did it. It goes back to that saying [with great power comes great responsibility]; when you\u2019re given a position in your community, you have to use it to leave it better than you found it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This is what Patti O’Furniture uses drag to do. As a leader in the LGBT+ community in Columbia, and South Carolina as a whole, Patti sees it as her responsibility to ensure up-and-coming queens don\u2019t have to fight the same battles she did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPatti has set a standard for showing compassion and stepping up to take care of the community,\u201d Starling said. \u201cI think her commitment to making Columbia a better, more accepting place has made an immeasurable impact on so many lives. I am very proud of her work and honored to be her friend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Starling also noted the daily\u00a0impact Patterson has on people\u00a0with\u00a0his social media movement, #spreadhappiness.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPat has been spreading happiness since I have known him,\u201d Starling said. \u201cHe has touched so many people with his positive attitude and constant support for our community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Happiness has always been the most important thing to Patterson; it\u2019s the reason he chose to do a highly-comedic style of\u00a0<\/span>drag.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t have a reason for why I chose to do camp for a long time, but then I met Adam,\u201d Patti said, recalling a particularly impactful audience interaction from early in her career. \u201cI made fun of this group all night until there was just one guy left. When I went over to thank him for being such a good sport and apologize for singling him out, he thanked me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Adam Whisenant was a newly out member of the gay community who had also just ended his first relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Patti\u2019s show at PT\u2019s was one of the first times Whisenant had gone out after the break-up, and had been doubting his decision to leave. He told Patti that the stage jokes had given him the confidence to hold strong in his decision. The two have remained friends ever since. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson also instills the importance of spreading happiness in his students. At some point\u00a0each semester, he tells them to go out into the world and just smile at someone. Any stranger, just smile at them.<\/span><\/p>\n Patterson does this because, as he tells his students, you never know what another person is going through. The smile that costs you nothing to give could be the only support they receive all day, and it could be just what they needed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think about other people who have influenced me in my life and it’s the people like Adam who told me that I made him smile \u2014 that little gesture made all the difference,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt\u2019s the people who go out there and don\u2019t set out to make life better for people, it\u2019s just inherent in them. 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<\/span><\/p>\nFrom Pat to Patti O’Furniture<\/h4>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Patti](\"http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tip-300x200.jpg\")
<\/p>\nA provocative tool to spread happiness<\/span><\/h4>\n
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