History was made on Sunday night; May 26 in Cherry Grove as Sugar B. Real won the crown at the 49th Annual Arts Project of Cherry Grove (APCG) Homecoming Event. She is a woman, a beautiful woman, and the first biological Black female to win the APCG Homecoming Queen title.
Only once before was a biological woman crowned APCG Homecoming Queen, and that was 30 years ago, when Scarlet Oh! (aka Joan Van Ness) won the title in 1994 during the height of the AIDS pandemic.
Sugar B. Real (aka Rhonda Potter) has been a regular fixture in Cherry Grove for quite some time. An Empress in the Imperial Court of New York, our camera regularly caught glimpses of her regal presence aboard the Queen’s ferry during the Fourth of July Annual Invasion of Fire Island Pines. There were many glamorous drag queens who strutted the stage at the Homecoming 2024, but everyone knew the night belonged to Sugar.
