Drag
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Books
4 Fun, Flirty New Romance Novels
It’s a great setup for a joke: A superhero walks into a gay bar and gets rescued from avid fans by a drag queen. It’s also where we begin Philip Ellis’s contemporary romance WE COULD BE HEROES (Putnam, 370 pp., paperback, $20). Patrick Lake, who ...
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World
Drag Goes Mainstream in the Philippines, a Bastion of Christianity
For many performers, drag is not only a cultural phenomenon, but also a political statement promoting social justice and gay rights.
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Newyork
How ‘History and Tradition’ Rulings Are Changing American Law
In November 2022, a group of L.G.B.T.Q. students at West Texas A&M University started planning a drag show for the following spring. They wanted to raise money for suicide prevention and stand up for queer self-expression at a time when conservatives ...
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Books
Holidays a Drag? Every Year, Thanks to Jinkx and DeLa.
It was half past 3 the day after the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, and a pair of America’s most famous drag queens strode up to the spruce’s formidable footprint, chatting about abundance. “I don’t like being inundated with anything ...
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Newyork
My State’s Anti-Drag Campaign Is Beyond Ludicrous
NASHVILLE — Soon after we moved to Nashville in 1987, I started hearing stories about a brilliant Belle Meade man who didn’t exactly behave according to Belle Meade norms. Neil Cargile was the president of a Nashville-based dredging company with ...
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Newyork
The Massacre at Club Q Was Only a Matter of Time
The massacre this past weekend at Club Q, an L.G.B.T.Q. club in Colorado Springs, was at once shocking and entirely predictable, like terrorist ...