Best Bets • 07-23-21
Jul 23, 2021 |
Friends and family will gather Sunday, July 25, at 5 p.m. for a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of longtime community activist and fundraiser Michael Champion, aka Sable Alexander. The celebration takes place in The Rose Room inside S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road; doors open at 4 p.m. and the show starts at 5 p.m. The event is presented by The Miss Gay Texas State Pageant System, which was founded by Michael and his husband, Bill Lindsey, aka Linze Serrell. The couple created the Miss Gay Texas State Pageant System as a way to recognize and honor the talents of drag performers across the state while at the same time raising funds for nonprofit organizations serving the LGBTQ community, and proceeds from the show will benefit the pageant system and LGBTQ S.A.V.E.S., a Fort Worth-based organization serving LGBTQ youth. Michael Champion was a registered nurse and worked as director of nursing at a nursing home. He contracted COVID-19 last November while caring for his patients there and succumbed to the disease in January this year.