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While many Philadelphians escape to the Shore or beyond for summer, the city’s artists, restaurateurs, and cultural groups ...
Divine was a drag queen like no other. In the 1970s and 1980s, long before RuPaul's Drag Race brought the art form into the mainstream, this outrageous actor, singer and cultural disruptor was ...
John Waters’ 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos featured the iconic drag queen Divine, who inspired the character Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid. The 1969 Stonewall Riots saw drag queens, most ...
A drag queen’s greatest skill is often the art of imitation. For some, that means impersonating pop stars from Cher and Lady Gaga to Jenni Rivera and Mariah Carey. For others, it’s entrancing ...
Cera Grindstaff, director of operations for Dreamland, points out the relevance of supporting drag at this particular moment: “Drag queens and trans folks are under fire right now,” she says.
It had also never centered a young female protagonist so aggressively. Ashman even incorporated a drag queen-inspired Ursula the sea witch. Now, Disney is taking fewer and fewer artistic risks.
I was already friends with many drag queens, and there was no shortage of information, so I dove right in. My drag mom, Ursula Major, is an established name and has been part of the drag scene in ...
I was already friends with many drag queens, and there was no shortage of information, so I dove right in. My drag mom, Ursula Major, is an established name and has been part of the drag scene in ...