On Saturday April 10, 2021 the Dallas LGBTQ community hosted a massive fundraiser for a local family coping with tragedy.
The “Love for Lemmon” fundraiser was organized to benefit the longtime owners of Lemmon Beauty & Wigs. On March 26th, Cece Davenport, the daughter of the wig store owners, was critically injured in a car accident in Florida.
Dallas drag queen Raquel Blake organized the fundraising event to help the family with Cece’s medical expenses.
Lemmon Beauty & Wigs, which is in the heart of Dallas’ gayborhood, is a popular local business frequented by everyone from professional drag queens and cabaret performers, to those buying their first wig for Halloween.
Although Raquel Blake now headlines shows at the Round-up Saloon and JR’s Bar & Grill, her first job in Dallas was working at Lemmon Beauty & Wigs, where she became close friends with Cece and the Davenport family. The wig store is a fixture of Dallas’ drag community, and maintains a wall display with photos of its drag queen customers.