Talk:Enza Anderson

Ethnicity
A quick bit of discussion re: her ethnic background — she was added to Category:Swedish Canadians on the basis of her surname, but AFAIK she's actually Italian Canadian. I suppose she might be part Italian and part Swedish, but I think it best not to file her in any ethnicity categories at all until someone can actually confirm which ones she belongs in. We obviously can't base it on her surname alone, when for obvious reasons we can't necessarily be sure that it's actually the surname she was born with. Bearcat 02:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Why not just ask her at enzaanderson@sympatico.ca --Sonjaaa 21:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Before I read this, I sent her an email, asking for a GFDL or Creative Commons-licensed image. If she replies, I'll also ask her about this. --  Zanimum 14:33, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I worked with Enza on Pride Toronto, and she's definitely Italian Canadian. The last name comes from Loni Anderson. Here's an article in Fab Magazine where she discusses it:  ~Margaret Robinson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Margaret Robinson (talk • contribs) 02:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Name source
I have the text of the article but sadly the link is down " Lifestyle

Friday January 19 2007

My evening with a Drag queen

Rama Rau

I am meeting Enza Supermodel for a TV show. It's 5.45 pm and I wait at my friend's office on Queen Street in downtown Toronto. After waiting a while, my friend tells me: ``I don't know if she's gonna come in her male persona or her female one. ``Ummm hmmm, I reply. I'm mildly curious about meeting a Drag Queen myself, having thus far only seen them on the subway or in downtown clubs.

I try recollecting what little I knew about Enza. Her real name: Enzo Anderson. In 2000, she ran for mayor of Toronto, Ontario. Although the eventual winner of that campaign, Mel Lastman, won over 80 per cent of the vote, Anderson surprised many by garnering 15,000 votes, placing third! She was one of the few candidates (besides Lastman, Ben Kerr and Tooker Gomberg) to get any kind of recognition in the race, even though all she did was stand on downtown street corners with a handmade placard that read: "Vote for me - I have the best legs in town."

Having changed her name to "Enza Supermodel", Anderson (whose sense of irony, I learn later, is razor-sharp), runs in political races where the major candidate has no serious challenger on the ballot.

At 6.15, fashionably late, she walks in, six feet, three inches tall, in her beautiful black pointy stilettos; she's wearing a short black dress, showing off great legs, light black stockings and a chic black leather jacket. And the first thing I think is - Oh. My. God.

She is beautiful. That particular day I'm wearing scruffy blue jeans cut-off at the knees, running shoes and a T-shirt I grabbed from my closet two minutes before I ran out the door. Some lipstick, a dash of mascara and I was ready in seconds. Now, looking at her, I feel less like a woman than I've ever felt in my entire life. I never was one of those `la de da' women, mind you, but right now, I wish I was. I feel insecure, ugly and yes, jealous.

We get into a taxi and Enza graciously lets me sit in the front seat. I feel a bit awkward. I don't know where to start, so I stare out the window. I look back politely and smile now and then as Enza talks to my friend. Suddenly she says, "Oh, lovely nails!" and I jump. Er ah, my nails? But she is charming about it.

After that, we settle down to some nice comfortable girl talk and I ask her the question I've been dying to ask. "How long does it take you to do your make-up, Enza?" and she replies, "Three hours." After all, she has to do her legs, her arms, her face, her body. She's happy to give me the most minute (and unnecessary) details of how she wanted a breast job but decided to just wear padded bras instead.

That evening, the TV show meeting turns out to be a disaster. The three men in the room (all heterosexuals, they assure each other) can't take their eyes of Enza's legs. I get a lot of amusement watching how their eyes slide down her legs and desperately make an attempt to meet yours if you address them. She is charming and funny. She tells the crowd how she got her name, "Ya know, gurrl friend, what else would I be, but a Supah model?" and how she works in a bar during the day and takes photographs of celebrities by night.

I must admit I'm fascinated. Enza studied to be an engineer and later began dressing up in drag, partly to party, and partly because that's her version of Show Biz.

"Honey, I put on a good show, I got more shoes and dresses than Imelda Marcos!" I believe that.

I go home that evening, feeling a little strange inside my head. It's the first time I've felt special to be born a woman. And to think I had to meet a Drag Queen to make me feel this way. " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nirame (talk • contribs) 19:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

transgender
Is Enza truly transgender, or is she a drag queen? I know in some articles she discusses dressing up in drag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.51.166.45 (talk) 00:38, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

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