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Revisiting New York’s Legendary Drag Explosion of the 1990s

Revisiting New York’s Legendary Drag Explosion of the 1990s

Downtown New York nightlife icon Linda Simpson looks back at the way ‘90s drag culture transformed the way we think about gender, beauty, fashion, and glamour today.

Once relegated to the margins, drag queens came center stage in New York City in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, as a new generation of luminous beauties came of age in the downtown nightlife scene. Eschewing the female impersonator style of past perf...

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