BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Happy Pride! There are plenty of queer establishments in NYC at which you can celebrate, but let me step in between your cocktails and remind you of some past places that were absolute gay heaven. We can briefly remember their glory, then go right back to putting the mo’ back in […]
BY MARTY BARRETT | What is the collective term for drag queens: A Sashay? A Tuck? A Flotilla? However the OED defines it, a blindingly brilliant (and occasionally bedazzled) constellation of drag queens descended upon our sprawling city, as RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022—the event’s 10th in-person iteration—brought sparkle back, May 13-15. Hundreds of drag queens—whether […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY MARTY BARRETT | RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022 (May 13-15) was a seismic event—and how appropriate for Pacific Rim-adjacent Los Angeles—that represented a release of all that pent-up COVID claustrophobia in a healing lava rain of drag queens across a grateful downtown LA. The 10th in-person DragCon featured hundreds of vendors, reunions […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY MINDY ROSIER-RAYBURN | This past Sunday, I was among the members of the LGBT community, electeds, and allies who gathered at Chelsea Piers to let the West Side fitness destination know how we felt about their decision to provide a home for the ultra-conservative Jewish Leadership Conference, whose guest speakers […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | The Tribeca Film Festival (June 8-19) opened last week with a slate of short films, including a collection of seven LGBTQIA+ Shorts called See Me, Feel Me. The shorts deal with issues of gay intimacy, relationships, S/M, racism, cross-dressing, coming out, self-harm, and intersectional queerness. Although they are all quite different […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | COVID lockdown in ’20 was important for safety reasons, but it also managed to serve a personal purpose for me: Since so many of my NYC friends had moved out of town through the years and were continuing to flee, it allowed me the chance to connect with absent pals via […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | If you plan to tie the knot in the United States this year, you’re in good company. Sidelined for the past two years by COVID, relaxed public gathering protocols mean that 2022 will see an unusually high amount of packed pews and reception halls. Indeed, wedding prep website theknot.com puts at […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | What’s the point of going to a nightclub if you’re not going to get photographed? Part of the fun of going out is showing your most flamboyant self to other fabbies and happily flashing your teeth for the camera. Through the years, there have been a lot of expert photographers who […]
Just shy of one week since Easter Sunday, the once-overflowing baskets packed with eggs, peeps, and chocolate have been picked over until all that’s left is the visually appealing but thoroughly inedible colorful plastic straw. Luckily, for those who have a sweet tooth for drag, there’s an Easter leftover sure to fill that empty hole in your. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Drag and lip synching go together like drag and brunch, or brunch and booze–and although live signing is making some serious inroads as an arrow in the savvy queen’s well-packed quiver, not every drag performer born to entertain can belt one out at will and in tune. That takes a very […]