Icesis and Savannah Couture: real life brothers serving sister drag queen realness

Icesis and Savannah Couture are just two of the many fabulous subjects featured in Canada's a Drag, a docu-series from CBC Arts that showcases drag artists from across the true North strong and fierce.

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When Randy Granados was a little boy, he really, really wanted an Ashley Tisdale High School Musical Barbie.

"We weren't allowed to have that kind of stuff in our house," recalls his older brother, Steven Granados-Portelance, who at the time had already started coming to terms being gay. "So for Christmas I bought it for him."

Randy "completely lost his mind," and from that moment Steven suspected what their future as brothers had in store.

"I knew it would be my job to take care of him and lead him into the gay community the proper way because I knew the hardships that come with it," Steven says.

What he didn't know yet, though, was that the future also included the brothers joining forces to become Icesis and Savannah Couture — two of the fiercest drag queens Canada's capital city has ever seen.

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