What a Drag: Shelley Novak’s South Beach Street Brawl Ends With Police

blogs.MiamiNewTimes.com – By Natalie O’Neill

South Beach’s legendary queen of drag, Shelley Novak, is normally full of sassy one-liners and puns about penis size. But she has a straight face when explaining: “It was like Friday the 13th. He came running up my stairs, chasing after me with wild, crazy eyes.”

She’s re-living the moment before she called police to report an alleged assault last week. Her contention: a gay man named Zachary Cerre hit her in the face and smashed his fist though the window of her apartment on West Avenue.