The Advocate chats with Tabatha Coffey from “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover”

The second season finale of Bravo’s Tabatha’s Salon Takeover airs on Jan. 12 and Brandon Voss of The Advocate had a fun chat with the star of the show, Tabatha Coffey, about all kinds if stuff including stereotypical gay stylists, unsolicited sperm donors and the Boystown salon that brought out her militant gay claws.

Here are some excerpts:

Advocate.com: In my favorite episode this season you visited Chicago Male, a men-only salon in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, and called the staff “gay deer in headlights.”

Tabatha Coffey: Well, they were! [Laughs] But I feel I sucked the gay out of them when I went in there.

Advocate.com: Viewers got to see you interact briefly with children this season. Would you like kids of your own some day?

TC: Yeah, people thought it looked quite fabulous to see Tabatha walking around with a baby, so there are obviously people out there who want me barefoot and pregnant. Some men have even offered to donate sperm, which is lovely; however, it’s not my thing.

Advocate.com: Your sexuality was never addressed on Shear Genius, yet you were out in the press while promoting the show. Were those conscious decisions on your part?

TC: I always live truthfully. No, it didn’t come up on Shear Genius because it doesn’t pertain to the business or competitive situation. I didn’t need to walk around the competition every two seconds, going, “Look at me! I’m a lesbian!” And I never made a conscious decision to come out to the press because that’s just who I am. If people asked me a question, I’d just try to answer it honestly and to the best of my ability.

Here is a LINK to the entire interview.