“The Queen” Mother of Drag Documentary on Netflix

I watched this documentary the other night because I was interested in the information from a gay cultural POV, and also to see how it relates to LGBTQ history. I really don’t know much about drag culture, but I know a little from what I’ve seen over the years, and this documentary was fascinating to watch. For those of us who weren’t around, it’s also interesting to see what the world was like before AIDS. That’s something we don’t see very often. 

Just over an hour in length, The Queen is a depiction of parts of queer life before the Stonewall Uprising, before gay liberation, and much before drag hit the mainstream. It chronicled the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.

You can check out the rest here. I wish someone would do a follow up documentary about all the people in this documentary. At one time we had a big drag presence in New Hope, and even one older entertainer named Joe Cavalluci that everyone called “Mother.” 

London Book Shop “Gay’s the World” Attacked Again

There’s a very well known book shop in London called, Gay’s the World, and it’s been the target of crime more than once. At least this time it doesn’t appear to be a hate crime. This is from Twitter.  

Here’s the rest. They get into some history about the shop, and some of the previous attacks. It’s definitely worth reading.

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