{"id":342771,"date":"2026-06-02T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:29:09","slug":"4-masc-daddies-of-magic-mascs-built-l-a-s-hottest-new-lesbian-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342771\/","title":{"rendered":"4 masc ‘daddies’ of Magic Mascs built L.A.\u2019s hottest new lesbian show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At around 1 in the morning at the Sassafras Saloon in Hollywood, four masc lesbians in cowboy hats and chaps were dancing on top of the bar while bartenders attempted to continue making espresso martinis beneath them. <\/p>\n

One performer crawled into the crowd and between the spread legs of an audience member, licking the air between their thighs. Another wrapped a belt around their girlfriend\u2019s neck while thrusting against her to Bon Jovi\u2019s \u201cYou Give Love a Bad Name.\u201d The ravenous audience, almost entirely women, fluttered dollar bills all around, while easily filling the saloon\u2019s 300-person capacity.<\/p>\n

Across Los Angeles, countless strip clubs and revue shows were unfolding at that same hour, though none quite like this and likely few provoking this level of frenzy. The night had all the riotous energy of a scene from \u201cCoyote Ugly,\u201d with the choreographed masculinity of \u201cMagic Mike.\u201d Playing on the latter\u2019s name, this was the doing of Magic Mascs<\/a>, an all-masc lesbian and translesbian revue, by sapphics for sapphics.<\/p>\n

\"Members <\/p>\n

Skye Valentinez, from left, Alexa Legend, Daddii Syd and King Captain are members of Magic Mascs, an all-masc lesbian and translesbian collective, that started in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur idea was to give lesbians what men get all the time at a strip club, but instead of just sitting around and singing \u2018Pink Pony Club,\u2019 actually going wild,\u201d said group founder Daddii Syd, a.k.a. Syd Latimore.<\/p>\n

The performers, self-described \u201cdaddies\u201d \u2014 Daddii Syd, Alexa Legend, Skye Valentinez and King Captain \u2014 formed Magic Mascs in February. The performance at the Saloon was their third overall, but the group has already become an institution within lesbian nightlife in Los Angeles. They will make their debut during a Pride Month performance on Friday at Womxn Pride\u2019s rooftop party<\/a> in downtown L.A.<\/p>\n

The members come from professional dance backgrounds. King Captain entered dance school at age 12 and taught dance for nearly a decade. Daddii Syd has danced since childhood. Alexa Legend spent years go-go dancing across clubs in the city before joining the troupe. Skye Valentinez, the baby of the group \u2014 cherub-faced, smiling through braces \u2014 is the newest to performing, though she steps into it naturally, exhibiting the same living, breathing caricature of masculinity as the rest of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one\u2019s trying to be cisgender,\u201d King Captain makes clear. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to be the kind of men who are born into and fed by patriarchy,\u201d Daddii Syd added. \u201cWe\u2019re redefining masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"King <\/p>\n

King Captain gets their underwear stuffed with dollar bills from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Magic Mascs\u2019 success follows a broader trend of lesbians confidently stepping into masculinity before hungry eyes. In the past year, performative masc competitions have appeared across the country, with lesbians \u2014 hair slicked back and carabiners dangling from their Carhartt jeans \u2014 showing off in front of leering crowds. Magic Mascs feels like a more professionalized version of that phenomenon, less tongue-in-cheek \u2014 just tongue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always knew there was a huge hunger for this,\u201d Daddii Syd said.<\/p>\n

Their first performance, in San Diego, sold out fast. <\/p>\n

\u201cI knew right away we were onto something special,\u201d Daddii Syd said. <\/p>\n

Videos of the troupe traveled far across sapphics\u2019 algorithms, especially clips of King Captain, whose devoted fan base \u2014 known collectively as \u201cThe Castle\u201d \u2014 make arduous trips just to see them in the flesh. One fan drove more than 20 hours from Dallas to San Diego to see Magic Mascs. Another sent an edible fruit bouquet from Australia.<\/p>\n

Backstage, every gesture from the troupe was ultra-confident. Captain, wearing briefs stuffed with a sock full of rice, talked to me with a leg cocked on the footrest of my stool. Daddii Syd, Alexa Legend and Skye Valentinez stood pelvis-forward, hands behind their heads, flexing ropey muscles. They loved the camera, eyeing it like prey while tipping the brims of their cowboy hats. (\u201cYou guys are like the modern-day Beatles,\u201d our photographer said.)<\/p>\n

\"King <\/p>\n

King Captain gets the Hollywood crowd into a frenzy during a recent show.<\/p>\n

Everything in the show revolved around their hips. The performers rolled and glided before delivering sudden, mechanical thrusts powerful enough to rattle nearby glasses. Their bodies were taut with effort and exaggerated lust. Daddii Syd performed with her girlfriend Jamie in matching plaid, not leaving much to the imagination as they licked whipped cream off each other. <\/p>\n

Alexa Legend, who described herself as shy offstage, eventually stripped down to nipple pasties and a cowboy hat, firing confetti from her crotch into the crowd. King Captain swerved their hips like a powerful mechanical bull. \u201cOh, Captain, my captain,\u201d someone in the crowd said, hand pressed dramatically to her forehead.<\/p>\n

They paid particular attention to a woman in a wheelchair in the crowd \u2014 typical of their performances \u2014 asking if they could sit on the wheelchair. They received keen consent. \u201cThat was, um, very nice,\u201d she told me after, still a little lost for words.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re huge on consent,\u201d Daddii Syd said. At the start of the show, they told the crowd to cross their arms in a Wakanda Forever pose if they didn\u2019t wish to be touched. They checked in constantly while moving through the crowd, leaning close to ask questions like, \u201cIs this OK?\u201d and \u201cAnywhere you don\u2019t like to be touched?\u201d <\/p>\n

Captain learned these habits through work in intimacy coordination and under the mentorship of Tonia Sina<\/a>, among the first professional intimacy coordinators in Hollywood. That ethos of care extended beyond their interactions with the audience and into the way they interacted with one another offstage.<\/p>\n

\"Performer <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want everyone in the crowd to feel gorgeous,\u201d King Captain said before the recent show at Sassafras Saloon in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\"Performer <\/p>\n

King Captain, left, and Lauren Henson, a stage kitten for the Magic Mascs, perform together on the bar.<\/p>\n

Forming a sanctuary for themselves was just as important to the troupe as emboldening others\u2019 desire. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to find other masc friends,\u201d Daddii Syd said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s weirdly competitive and trying to sabotage each other.\u201d King Captain agreed, asking: \u201cWhy can\u2019t we all be daddies at the same time?\u201d<\/p>\n

Daddii Syd and King Captain, who are both in their 30s, had little butch representation or friendship growing up and they have now become something like father figures to Alexa Legend and Skye Valentinez, who are in their 20s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to protect each other,\u201d King Captain said. \u201cWe have to look out for each other.\u201d <\/p>\n

Daddii Syd put her arm around Skye Valentinez and said: \u201cLook at this beautiful baby we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

That tenderness carried straight into the night. There was a striking seriousness to the whole performance, which spanned from just past 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Unlike a bachelorette party or the typical male revue, there was no giggling in the room, and no wink of camp from the performers. Here was a rare claim to unabashed public sapphic desire; it was given the scale and seriousness routinely afforded to heterosexual display, like the gleeful bravado of a man striding into Hooters.<\/p>\n

By the end of the night at Sassafras Saloon, the performers had stripped down nearly to nothing, pouring water over themselves while the audience roared. The atmosphere felt like one of collective release, a recognition that masculinity and desire don\u2019t belong only to men \u2014 that a group of four masc lesbians can be horny, inspire horniness and ultimately stir a hysteria that once greeted Channing Tatum or even the Beatles.<\/p>\n

It was the magnitude of the response that night at the Saloon, as on every other night they\u2019ve performed, that\u2019s inspiring their next moves: total domination in sum. The troupe is already planning a national tour through Florida, Dallas and Sacramento, though Daddii Syd\u2019s ambitions extend much further. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea,\u201d she told me, \u201cis to go global. Like a boy band.\u201d<\/p>\n