Capturing the heart of New York’s flamboyant drag scene

Drag meddles in stories about gender, beauty, and culture. Even in the act of lip syncing, we choose a song – a preexisting story that’s deemed “straight” or “normal” or “nothing out of the ordinary” – and then we squeeze our beautiful queer bodies into it, shifting the meaning, disrupting the total effect. Drag makes room for us queers as we are (or perhaps more importantly, as we imagine ourselves) in the center of every recognizable narrative.