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Classic Films About Drag Pageants and Ball Culture Return to Theaters to Dazzle Again

by Caden Mark Gardner June 17, 2019November 4, 2019

The landmark queer documentaries The Queen and Paris is Burning have been restored and are back in theaters.

Posted inArt

Preserving the Lifework of a Cross-Dressing Queer Legend

by Jillian Steinhauer December 5, 2014

Earlier this year, as part of the Whitney Biennial, I had my Tarot cards read by Flawless Sabrina.

Posted inPerformance

When Drag Queens Crowd Surf

by Daniel Larkin September 22, 2014September 22, 2014

PORTLAND, Oregon — Pepper Pepper went crowd surfing at her recent drag ball. Declaring to the crowd that it was all about collectivism, she dove out into the sea of hands with a large set of balloons attached to her back.

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An Artist-Turned-Drag Queen Reigns in Berlin

by Stephen Truax September 18, 2014September 18, 2014

BERLIN — Fellas, I wanna know if I could talk to ya for just a minute. … Is it okay?

The sultry voice cut through the din of hundreds of people. Chandelier Divine Brown’s lip-synch performance of the 1990s a cappella “Work This Pussy,” by American transgender vocalist Sweet Pussy Pauline, sent the crowd into a frenzy.

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Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface

by Daniel Larkin June 13, 2014June 16, 2014

In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like “Self-Portrait in Drag” (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.

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Art’s a Drag: Leland Bobbé’s Split-Personality Portraits

by Alexander Cavaluzzo August 13, 2012August 20, 2012

Few men have the balls to be women, but even fewer can truly master the art of drag. New York–based photographer Leland Bobbé celebrates the fabulous queens that populate our fair metropolis in a new series titled Half-Drag, creating dynamic dual portraits of drag queens simultaneously in and out of hair and makeup.

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