Every Tuesday and Thursday drag journalist and downtown legend Linda Simpson posts Every Night in Drag “a historical photo essay documenting a fantastic New York City queendom from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.” From top, left: an off-night Leigh Bowery in futuristic Benny Hill drag; the late, great Page at the Central Park zoo; Francine and makeup artist extraordinaire Kabuki Starshine (responsible for Katy Perry’s “Extraterrestrial”); Lady Bunion and Lurleen; Antony from Antony and the Johnsons and Linda Simpson; Whitney and Juan Suarez-Botas (the inspiration for the Antonio Banderas character in Philadelphia) on the set of a My Comrade photo shoot. Fascinating, terrifying, hysterical, and ultimately incredibly poignant.
