She's ferocious, she's classy, she's gay - and knowing the majority of Australians support her will help a Darwin drag queen get on stage for the first time.
Ricky Borg has been a dancer at Darwin's gay nightclub, Throb, for more than a decade but on Friday night his alter ego, Ferocia Coutura, will make her world debut.
She'll battle it out on stage against five other queens for the chance to represent the Northern Territory at the Drag Nation grand final in Tasmania next year, and she's never felt so nervous.
But Ms Coutura says the emphatic victory of the Yes campaign in the same sex marriage survey this week has given her the boost she needs to take the plunge.
"I feel like I can walk down the street a little bit safer now, and know that what I do is a bit more accepted - it's absolutely liberating," she said.
"Growing up as one of the LGBTQI is not easy... but I'm happily partnered now and to know that one day I"ll be able to marry him means that I do get my fairytale princess ending."
She'll go head to head with Shaniqua, another drag newbie from the Tiwi Island community on Bathurst Island, who was runner up for the Miss First Nations event held in September.
"It was the first time they had a competition for remote and regional drag queens or Tiwi Sista Girls to enter. I was amazed to see there's a platform for us," she said.
Shaniqua plans to show her colours in a sequined Aboriginal flag dress for the crowning ceremony, and says she's constantly juggling her indigenous culture, her ties to the queer community and her life in mainstream "white society".
"Us blackfellas do live in three worlds... I need to be physically, mentally and spiritually strong," she said.
"Knowing (the majority of Australians) accepted us and are supporting us through this journey is fabulous."
Rose Porterhouse's first ever drag performance will be a five-minute number inspired by the marriage equality postal plebiscite, and the emotional rollercoaster it's taken her on.
"I think everyone will expect there to be balls flying because I do Drag Bingay bingo, but it'll be pink and juicy, with steak realness," she said.
Ms Porterhouse and her partner exchanged rings at a ceremony at Everest base camp three years ago and filed the official paperwork in Canada a few years later, but they want Australian laws to be changed without delay so "our love means something in this country too".
"And I'm pretty sure Rose would love another wedding," she said.
