Swag in the Bag, Queens in the Street: West 22nd’s ‘Pride Pop-Up’ Finds Its Rainbow Connection

Swag in the Bag, Queens in the Street: West 22nd’s ‘Pride Pop-Up’ Finds Its Rainbow Connection

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | On Wednesday, June 21, the NYC Department of Transportation presented to Manhattan Community Board 4 their design proposal for the 200 block of West 22nd Street. As part of the City’s Open Streets program since May 2020, the elimination of most vehicular traffic between Seventh and Eighth Aves. for as much […]

On the Stage and In the Street, PRIDE Month Has Many Tales to Tell

On the Stage and In the Street, PRIDE Month Has Many Tales to Tell

Activities Roundup Compiled by Scott Stiffler Featured Events in This Order: NYC Pride March / Pride Pop-Up on W. 22nd St. / Reclaim Pride Coalition’s 2023 Queer Liberation March / Ballroom in Focus Exhibit at Chelsea Market / The Golden Girlz Live! / Lady Bunny’s Don’t Bring the Kids and Leola’s Lady Land Lounge / District Defined: […]

Happy Pride! Here’s Why Drag is Important!

Happy Pride! Here’s Why Drag is Important!

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I hope you’re having a wonderful Pride month. Just make sure to tip your drag queens! Drag has been ridiculously under attack by haters and as a result, I always crack that today’s drag stars will end up with an Emmy in one hand and handcuffs on the other. For years […]

Come Again: Sherry Vine Shoots Six Times, Scoring Big with Season 2 of ‘Variety Show’

Come Again: Sherry Vine Shoots Six Times, Scoring Big with Season 2 of ‘Variety Show’

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | There’s something satisfying about the fact that while self-aggrandizing lawmakers in Tennessee and other states were spending 2022/2023 trying to limit, license, discourage, and otherwise disavow drag, Sherry Vine and friends were creating six episodes of variety television that plays such pomposity for laughs, while putting the pursuit of cock where […]

June’s Pride Month Has Tales to Tell, On Stage and Screen

June’s Pride Month Has Tales to Tell, On Stage and Screen

ROUNDUP BY SCOTT STIFFLER (additional content to post here throughout June) The Village: A Disco Daydream | Take it from somebody who saw her on stage with the long-running sketch ensembles Unitard and the Nellie Olesons: The comedic creations of writer/performer Nora Burns demand your attention. Alternately sexy, sardonic, silly, sad, sublime, and a million […]

Anti-Drag Meets Its Match: All is Well With The Kinsey Sicks Around

Anti-Drag Meets Its Match: All is Well With The Kinsey Sicks Around

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Don’t let the elbow-length gloves, the cat-eye glasses, or the bouffant hairdos pull focus from what’s really going on when The Kinsey Sicks take the stage. Their look may evoke Eisenhower-era cocktail culture throwbacks—but get their liberal dander up, and these ladies are more than ready for a throwdown. And throwdown […]

100+ More Fab Drag Queen and Drag King Names!

100+ More Fab Drag Queen and Drag King Names!

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Even though a lot of today’s drag queens steer away from punny names, I think it’s important to emphasize those types of appellations because they’re just so damned hilarious, and there’s so much history behind them too. Well, I’ve given you the best such noms de plumage before, and now I’ve […]

Triumphant Trocks Flirt, Fall, and Run Rampant at the Joyce

Triumphant Trocks Flirt, Fall, and Run Rampant at the Joyce

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | When the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974, being gay could get you into lots of trouble. The Stonewall Riots were still fresh in New Yorkers’ memories; the AIDS crisis, which decimated the original company, lay ahead. The male dancers’ portrayals of ballerinas on pointe were […]

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