Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. KEYWORDS: dbm downie leonarddownie newspapers wapo Photos welcomed, to: hjaffe AT washingtonian DOT com. Please keep those anonymous cards and letters coming. No leaked pictures, so far, but many of those retired staffers would dearly love a picture of Downie in the embrace of a drag queen. According to eye witnesses, one performer sat down next to Downie and wrapped him in a big hug.ĭownie seemed at bit shocked, but one photographer says: He took it in good humor at the time.īut apparently Downie was less amused by the photos and videos being shot, and he asked that they be kept private.
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Would the something special be free champagne? Special sushi? Not exactly.Īzali invited male dancers dressed as women who perform at Perrys Sunday drag brunches. Len Downie made an appearance just as the queens began to mingle. Owner Saied Azali promised to do something special because he was friends with well-known Post photographer Lucien Perkins. He soon became a prize-winning investigative reporter on the papers Metro desk. Downie has spent his entire journalistic career at the paper, where he started as a summer intern reporter in 1965. Photo editor Joe Elbert booked Perrys, a sushi restaurant in DCs Adams Morgan, for a Saturday afternoon. was the Executive Editor of the Washington Post. When the photo department decided to bid farewell to retiring staffers, it did not intend to get racy. The Washington Post is not known for throwing lively parties, especially under staid executive editor Leonard Downie. I wondered: Could a monthly magazine, with a lead time of several weeks, actually break a story about the Posts top editor caught in an amusing, if not compromising, situation? I started making a few calls, figuring that if such an event had taken place, photos and videos probably would be on YouTube or some other website. The letter in large type about a party hosted by the Washington Post photography staff seemed to fit the second category: It mentioned in paragraph three that Post executive editor Len Downie was the recipient of a lap dance and breasts in his face by one of the partys entertainerswho were drag queens!Ī second anonymous letter said word had gone out at the Post to kill any pictures of Lens lap dance. Len Downie spent 44 years as a reporter and editor at the Washington Post, retiring in 2008 as executive editor. Most are titillating but not worth publishing or broadcasting. Journalists get the occasional juicy and anonymous letter. The Post's editor had a R-rated encounter with a drag queen during a Post party this monthbut so far the photos have stayed private. Len Downie's (WaPo Editor) Lap Dance With Drag Queen (Coverup/Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
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