SassySays.com @SassyandSamara Interview The Cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 in West Hollywood, CA. In this segment Sassy & Samara talk with Phi Phi O’Hara, Alisa Summers, Latrice Royale and Jiggly Caliente.
SassySays.com - Drag History Month - January 26, 2012 - Jamie Clayton
Jamie Clayton Is a transgender model turned television actress. This year Jamie can be seen playing “Kyla” on Season 3 of the hit HBO series “HUNG” alongside Thomas Jane.
In 2010 Jamie co-hosted and was the on screen Makeup Artist on Vh1′s first makeover show, “TRANSform Me”.
The show quickly became a breakout hit and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.
For More: www.jamieclayton.net
SassySays.com - Drag History Month - January 24, 2012 - Jazzmun
Jazzmun An American actor and nightclub performer specializing in female impersonation in the Los Angeles area. Originally from San Diego, California, Jazzmun made her first national television appearance on the talent variety show Puttin’ on the Hits in 1984 in which she split her body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip synching as a “duet”. Finding work immediately after that appearance for his theatric and modeling talents, she moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then Jazzmun has performed all over the world performing as either “Jazzmun”, his trademark Whitney Houston which she performed as in the female stage revue La Cage, Grace Jones or any number of other characters. In the late 1990s Jazzmun co-starred in the stage play Ask Any Girl as the character Mahogany Saint Ross, a name play-on-words to singer Diana Ross. Latina singer Gloria Estefan hired Jazzmun to perform in the music video of her remake hit Everlasting Love after seeing one of Jazzmun’s performances. Later, drag icon RuPaul hired Jazzmun to also perform in her music video A Little Bit of Love which spoofed drag queens as aliens out to conquer the world. Jazzmun then released two of her own dance singles in 1997 on the Aqua Boogie label: “I´m Gonna Let You Have It” and “That Sound, That Beat”. And Later produce another hit 2 Tired 2 B Shady later to be featured in Patrik-Ian Polk highly anticipated and accomplish show “Noah’s Arc.”
Jazzmun has been featured in the following films: Dreamgirls , Studio 54, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, HellBent, Punks, Blast from the Past, Puff, Puff, Pass; The Big Brass Ring.
Her television credits include: “Big Shots” “Desperate Housewives” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” “CSI: NY” “Nip/Tuck ““The John Larroquette Show” “The Shield” “NYPD Blue” “Roseanne” “ER “ “The Cleaner” “The Wayans Bros.” “Sons of Anarchy”
SassySays.com - Drag History Month - January 21, 2012 - Flotilla DeBarge
Flotilla DeBarge, the Empress of Large, has long been a popular figure within the New York City nightlife scene. She has been cast in several movies such as To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar, Marci X, and the miniseries version of Angels in America. Flotilla appeared on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera as well as performing an Off-Broadway one-woman show, The Flotilla DeBarge Minstrel Show. DeBarge would garner considerable attention in 2005 when PETA featured Flotilla, as Star Jones, in an anti-fur Ad. Jones reportedly threatened to sue both PETA and Flotilla as a result of the ad. In 2006 DeBarge was arrested for assault with a high-heeled shoe during a bar fight in NYC. Though several witnesses said that Flotilla did not start the fight, it was clear that with the aid of her shoe, she finished it. Flotilla originally plead not guilty but later changed her plea to guilty and served time. Shortly after her release DeBarge would create a new solo show based on the experience, Flotilla DeBarge: Freshly Released — Black, Blessed & Free. Of her time in jail DeBarge would later say, “It certainly wasn’t OZ, honey. There was no Chris Meloni in sight.”
![SassySays.com -Drag History Month-January 14, 2012 Charles Busch
Charles Louis Busch (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote and starred in his early plays Off-off-Broadway beginning in 1978, generally in drag roles, and also acted in the works of other playwrights. He also wrote for television and began to act in films and on television in the late 1990s. His best-known play is The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (2000), which was a success on Broadway.
Busch was born in 1954 and grew up in Hartsdale, New York.
Busch attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. He majored in drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and received his B.A. in 1976. While at the university, Busch had difficulty being cast in plays and began to write his own material, such as a play called Sister Act about siamese twin showgirls, which succeeded in drawing interest on campus.
Busch has usually played the leading lady in drag in his plays. He has said, “Drag is being more, more than you can be. When I first started drag I wasn’t this shy young man but a powerful woman. It liberated within me a whole vocabulary of expression. It was less a political statement than an aesthetic one.” His camp style shows simultaneously send up and celebrate classic film genres. Busch has said, however, “I’m not sure what [campy] means, but I guess if my plays have elements of old movies and old fashioned plays, and I’m this bigger-than-life star lady, that’s certainly campy. I guess what I rebelled against was the notion that campy means something is so tacky or bad that it’s good, and that I just didn’t relate to.” Busch “toured the country in a non-drag one-man show he wrote called ‘Alone With a Cast of Thousands.’ ” from 1978 to 1984. By 1984, Busch’s performance bookings grew slim. He held various odd jobs, such as temporary office assistant, apartment cleaner, portrait artist “at bar mitzvahs”, phone salesperson, shop manager, ice cream server, sports handicapper and artists’ model. He thought that perhaps his last piece would be a skit put on in the Limbo Lounge, a gay bar in the East Village in Manhattan. The skit was a hit and became Busch’s most famous Off-off-Broadway play, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1984). When it was revived the next year at the Provincetown Playhouse, The New York Times described it as having “costumes flashier than pinball machines, outrageous lines, awful puns, sinister innocence, harmless depravity. … the female roles [Busch] creates are hilarious vamps, but also high comic characters … the audience laughs at the first line and goes right on laughing at every line to the end”. Busch stated that it was the longest-running non-musical in off-off-Broadway in history.
Busch and his collaborators soon created a series of shows, mostly at the Limbo Lounge, such as Theodora, She-Bitch of Byzantium (1984) and Times Square Angel (1985, Provincetown Playhouse).The company called itself “Theatre in Limbo” and attracted a loyal gay following. Other early plays include Pardon My Inquisition, or Kiss the Blood Off My Castanets (1986), in which Busch “played both Maria Garbanza, a prostitute, and her look-alike, the elegant Marquesa del Drago.” and Psycho Beach Party, which ran from July 1987 to May 1988.”In his latest incarnation, Mr. Busch is a pigtailed ingenue who wants to become a surfer in Psycho Beach Party, which opened last week at the Players Theater.” Other works include The Lady in Question, which ran from July to December 1989 at the Orpheum Theatre (originally produced by the WPA Theatre),and Red Scare on Sunset, which ran from June to September 1991 at the Lortel Theatre.
His play Die, Mommie, Die! was first performed in Los Angeles, opening in July 1999 at the Coast Playhouse. The Variety reviewer wrote that “Die! Mommy! Die!” is Charles Busch’s funniest, most accomplished and, without question, raunchiest work… And, as always, he wears a parade of wigs and pumps with considerable grace and understatement.” and was made into the 2003 feature film of the same name. According to the New York Times reviewer, “The candy-hued camp comedy Die Mommie Die! presents the latest variation of the playwright and drag performer Charles Busch’s long-running and very funny alter ego, a swiveling red-haired diva whose exaggerated graciousness and noblesse oblige embody the ne plus ultra of Great Hollywood Ladies….The film, directed by Mark Rucker from a screenplay by Mr. Busch, is at once all plot and no plot at all.Although the supporting performances are carefully shaded caricatures, Die Mommie Die! is really Mr. Busch’s show. Within the cramped limitations of drag, he exudes a genuine screen charisma. That star quality as much anything should earn the film a niche in camp heaven.”
Busch’s early film appearances include Ms. Ellen, a fortune teller in drag in Trouble on the Corner (1997). Busch has twice appeared in film versions of his own plays: Die, Mommie, Die! (1999) and the comedy horror Psycho Beach Party (2000, as Capt. Monica Stark, a policewoman trying to solve the mystery). He co-wrote, starred in and directed the film A Very Serious Person (2006), which starred Polly Bergen and received an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival.He is also the subject of the documentary The Lady in Question is Charles Busch (2006).
Busch had a recurring role in the HBO series Oz from 1999–2000 (the third and fourth seasons) as Nat Ginzburg, an “effeminate but makeup-free inmate on death row, certainly a departure from his usual glamour girl roles.” He also wrote television sitcom pilots and movie treatments as a source of extra income while he was a cult performer. He sold three pilots to CBS that were not produced.
Busch’s style is based on movie star acting rather than naturalistic femininity.Busch later said that he was described as “too thin, too light, which is the euphemism for gay. I was never cast at Northwestern for basically these reasons, and finally, I thought maybe what’s most disturbing about me is what is most unique: my theatrical sense, my androgyny, even identifying with old movie actresses”. He specializes in femmes fatales. “I’m an actor playing a role, but it’s drag. A lot of drag can be very offensive, but I like to think that in some crazy way the women I play are feminist heroines.”
Busch said, “I’ve always played a duality. I guess I’ve always felt a duality in myself: elegance and vulgarity. There’s humor in that. I’ve always found that fun on stage, as well. It’s not enough for me to be the whore. I have to be the whore with pretensions or the great lady with a vulgar streak. It’s the duality that I find interesting.” Busch generally writes without a political agenda, and he predominantly portrays characters who are white, middle class, gay, and between 20 and 40 years old.
Busch was inspired by Charles Ludlam, a drag artist who founded The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967 and wrote, directed, and acted in the company’s exaggerated, absurdist camp productions. Busch presented his one-man show Hollywood Confidential in a theater owned by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in July 1978 at One Sheridan Square, New York. He also appeared for several performances in the company’s production of Bluebeard as Hecate, also in July 1978. Busch said of this experience: “If I had ever entertained a fantasy of working with the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, doing Hecate got it out of my system.”Busch has said that he was also inspired by seeing Joan Sutherland and Zoe Caldwell perform when he was a child. Busch recalled: “When I was about 13 years old, around 1968 or ’69, I went to see Zoe Caldwell in ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.’ I was so dazzled that I don’t think I’ve ever recovered.”In 1991, Busch was performing in his play Red Scare on Sunset. He said that he had difficulty connecting with the audience at one of the performances. Caldwell went backstage after the performance to give him some advice: “You are so beautiful. But you were pushing too hard. You’re much better than that. …It’s the best lesson I’ve learned from a famous person.
For more: www.CharlesBusch.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxt1ec2rIo1qbi1oyo1_1280.jpg)
SassySays.com -Drag History Month-January 14, 2012 Charles Busch
Charles Louis Busch (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote and starred in his early plays Off-off-Broadway beginning in 1978, generally in drag roles, and also acted in the works of other playwrights. He also wrote for television and began to act in films and on television in the late 1990s. His best-known play is The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (2000), which was a success on Broadway.
Busch was born in 1954 and grew up in Hartsdale, New York.
Busch attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. He majored in drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and received his B.A. in 1976. While at the university, Busch had difficulty being cast in plays and began to write his own material, such as a play called Sister Act about siamese twin showgirls, which succeeded in drawing interest on campus.
Busch has usually played the leading lady in drag in his plays. He has said, “Drag is being more, more than you can be. When I first started drag I wasn’t this shy young man but a powerful woman. It liberated within me a whole vocabulary of expression. It was less a political statement than an aesthetic one.” His camp style shows simultaneously send up and celebrate classic film genres. Busch has said, however, “I’m not sure what [campy] means, but I guess if my plays have elements of old movies and old fashioned plays, and I’m this bigger-than-life star lady, that’s certainly campy. I guess what I rebelled against was the notion that campy means something is so tacky or bad that it’s good, and that I just didn’t relate to.” Busch “toured the country in a non-drag one-man show he wrote called ‘Alone With a Cast of Thousands.’ ” from 1978 to 1984. By 1984, Busch’s performance bookings grew slim. He held various odd jobs, such as temporary office assistant, apartment cleaner, portrait artist “at bar mitzvahs”, phone salesperson, shop manager, ice cream server, sports handicapper and artists’ model. He thought that perhaps his last piece would be a skit put on in the Limbo Lounge, a gay bar in the East Village in Manhattan. The skit was a hit and became Busch’s most famous Off-off-Broadway play, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1984). When it was revived the next year at the Provincetown Playhouse, The New York Times described it as having “costumes flashier than pinball machines, outrageous lines, awful puns, sinister innocence, harmless depravity. … the female roles [Busch] creates are hilarious vamps, but also high comic characters … the audience laughs at the first line and goes right on laughing at every line to the end”. Busch stated that it was the longest-running non-musical in off-off-Broadway in history.
Busch and his collaborators soon created a series of shows, mostly at the Limbo Lounge, such as Theodora, She-Bitch of Byzantium (1984) and Times Square Angel (1985, Provincetown Playhouse).The company called itself “Theatre in Limbo” and attracted a loyal gay following. Other early plays include Pardon My Inquisition, or Kiss the Blood Off My Castanets (1986), in which Busch “played both Maria Garbanza, a prostitute, and her look-alike, the elegant Marquesa del Drago.” and Psycho Beach Party, which ran from July 1987 to May 1988.”In his latest incarnation, Mr. Busch is a pigtailed ingenue who wants to become a surfer in Psycho Beach Party, which opened last week at the Players Theater.” Other works include The Lady in Question, which ran from July to December 1989 at the Orpheum Theatre (originally produced by the WPA Theatre),and Red Scare on Sunset, which ran from June to September 1991 at the Lortel Theatre.
His play Die, Mommie, Die! was first performed in Los Angeles, opening in July 1999 at the Coast Playhouse. The Variety reviewer wrote that “Die! Mommy! Die!” is Charles Busch’s funniest, most accomplished and, without question, raunchiest work… And, as always, he wears a parade of wigs and pumps with considerable grace and understatement.” and was made into the 2003 feature film of the same name. According to the New York Times reviewer, “The candy-hued camp comedy Die Mommie Die! presents the latest variation of the playwright and drag performer Charles Busch’s long-running and very funny alter ego, a swiveling red-haired diva whose exaggerated graciousness and noblesse oblige embody the ne plus ultra of Great Hollywood Ladies….The film, directed by Mark Rucker from a screenplay by Mr. Busch, is at once all plot and no plot at all.Although the supporting performances are carefully shaded caricatures, Die Mommie Die! is really Mr. Busch’s show. Within the cramped limitations of drag, he exudes a genuine screen charisma. That star quality as much anything should earn the film a niche in camp heaven.”
Busch’s early film appearances include Ms. Ellen, a fortune teller in drag in Trouble on the Corner (1997). Busch has twice appeared in film versions of his own plays: Die, Mommie, Die! (1999) and the comedy horror Psycho Beach Party (2000, as Capt. Monica Stark, a policewoman trying to solve the mystery). He co-wrote, starred in and directed the film A Very Serious Person (2006), which starred Polly Bergen and received an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival.He is also the subject of the documentary The Lady in Question is Charles Busch (2006).
Busch had a recurring role in the HBO series Oz from 1999–2000 (the third and fourth seasons) as Nat Ginzburg, an “effeminate but makeup-free inmate on death row, certainly a departure from his usual glamour girl roles.” He also wrote television sitcom pilots and movie treatments as a source of extra income while he was a cult performer. He sold three pilots to CBS that were not produced.
Busch’s style is based on movie star acting rather than naturalistic femininity.Busch later said that he was described as “too thin, too light, which is the euphemism for gay. I was never cast at Northwestern for basically these reasons, and finally, I thought maybe what’s most disturbing about me is what is most unique: my theatrical sense, my androgyny, even identifying with old movie actresses”. He specializes in femmes fatales. “I’m an actor playing a role, but it’s drag. A lot of drag can be very offensive, but I like to think that in some crazy way the women I play are feminist heroines.”
Busch said, “I’ve always played a duality. I guess I’ve always felt a duality in myself: elegance and vulgarity. There’s humor in that. I’ve always found that fun on stage, as well. It’s not enough for me to be the whore. I have to be the whore with pretensions or the great lady with a vulgar streak. It’s the duality that I find interesting.” Busch generally writes without a political agenda, and he predominantly portrays characters who are white, middle class, gay, and between 20 and 40 years old.
Busch was inspired by Charles Ludlam, a drag artist who founded The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967 and wrote, directed, and acted in the company’s exaggerated, absurdist camp productions. Busch presented his one-man show Hollywood Confidential in a theater owned by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in July 1978 at One Sheridan Square, New York. He also appeared for several performances in the company’s production of Bluebeard as Hecate, also in July 1978. Busch said of this experience: “If I had ever entertained a fantasy of working with the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, doing Hecate got it out of my system.”Busch has said that he was also inspired by seeing Joan Sutherland and Zoe Caldwell perform when he was a child. Busch recalled: “When I was about 13 years old, around 1968 or ’69, I went to see Zoe Caldwell in ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.’ I was so dazzled that I don’t think I’ve ever recovered.”In 1991, Busch was performing in his play Red Scare on Sunset. He said that he had difficulty connecting with the audience at one of the performances. Caldwell went backstage after the performance to give him some advice: “You are so beautiful. But you were pushing too hard. You’re much better than that. …It’s the best lesson I’ve learned from a famous person.
For more: www.CharlesBusch.com
![SassySays.com - Drag History Month - January 13, 2012 - Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis is an American genderqueer performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis’s name is an homage to activist Angela Davis.
Davis is often associated with the formation of the Queer-Core Zine Movement. She has performed with such artists as Lisa Lampanelli,Margaret Cho, Beck, and Ernesto Tomasini, and has collaborated withunderground photographers/filmmakers Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro,G. B. Jones, the performance artist Ron Athey and, more recently, with the Cheap art collective in Berlin, Germany.
Since the late 1970s, Davis has led many conceptual art bands, beginning with “The Afro Sisters”. Davis is also a founding member of “¡Cholita!” with Alice Bag (of seminal 1970’s punk band The Bags). He co-founded “Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME)” with Glen Meadmore. PME recorded their first single for independent record label Amoeba Records, and went on to record The White To Be Angry with producer Steve Albini. She was in a band called Black Fag with Beck’s mother Bibbe Hansen, and more recently, as a part of her collaboration with Cheap in Berlin, Davis formed a band called Ruth Fischer (Fischer was a leader in theCommunist Party of Germany).
In Los Angeles, Davis is also known for hosting and DJing a range of performance and music events. One of the most prominent was Bricktops (2002–2005) - a weekly salon/speak-easy inspired byvaudevillian Bricktop. She also hosted and DJed a Sunday afternoon music event called “Sucker” (1994–2000). She and artist Ron Atheycurated and hosted GIMP (2000–2001), a monthly night of performance art.
Davis’ film and video projects include The White to Be Angry (1999),Designy Living (1994), “One Man Ladies” (with Glenn Belverio, 1994),Three Faces of Women (1993). She appears in films such as Super 8½(Bruce LaBruce, 1994), Hustler White (Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, 1998) and The Lollipop Generation (G.B. Jones, 2008) She also appeared in an episode of Gideon’s Crossing.
Vaginal Davis is the publisher and editor of the zines Fertile Latoyah Jackson Magazine (sic)[2] and Shrimp. She has contributed writing to many publications, including Glue (in which he had a column called “Because I Said So”), “UR Chicago”, Ben is Dead, J.D.s and the LA Weekly. One of her stories was anthologized in The Best American Erotica of 2003, edited by Susie Bright. She regularly writes for the German/Dutch Zoo Magazine. She also has an upcoming book entitledBeware the Holy Whore, a compilation of her interviews with celebrities like Keanu Reeves, Missy Elliott, and Eminem.
In her performances, Davis adopts a range of personae, some of which are entirely her own creation (e.g. Saint Salicia Tate), some of which are based on actual people (Bricktop, and Vanessa Beecroft).
In 2007, Vaginal Davis moved from Los Angeles to Berlin, Germany and was never heard from again….
To find out where the bitch is: www.VaginalDavis.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxr41eMNWr1qbi1oyo1_400.jpg)
SassySays.com - Drag History Month - January 13, 2012 - Vaginal Davis Vaginal Davis is an American genderqueer performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis’s name is an homage to activist Angela Davis. Davis is often associated with the formation of the Queer-Core Zine Movement. She has performed with such artists as Lisa Lampanelli,Margaret Cho, Beck, and Ernesto Tomasini, and has collaborated withunderground photographers/filmmakers Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro,G. B. Jones, the performance artist Ron Athey and, more recently, with the Cheap art collective in Berlin, Germany. Since the late 1970s, Davis has led many conceptual art bands, beginning with “The Afro Sisters”. Davis is also a founding member of “¡Cholita!” with Alice Bag (of seminal 1970’s punk band The Bags). He co-founded “Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME)” with Glen Meadmore. PME recorded their first single for independent record label Amoeba Records, and went on to record The White To Be Angry with producer Steve Albini. She was in a band called Black Fag with Beck’s mother Bibbe Hansen, and more recently, as a part of her collaboration with Cheap in Berlin, Davis formed a band called Ruth Fischer (Fischer was a leader in theCommunist Party of Germany). In Los Angeles, Davis is also known for hosting and DJing a range of performance and music events. One of the most prominent was Bricktops (2002–2005) - a weekly salon/speak-easy inspired byvaudevillian Bricktop. She also hosted and DJed a Sunday afternoon music event called “Sucker” (1994–2000). She and artist Ron Atheycurated and hosted GIMP (2000–2001), a monthly night of performance art. Davis’ film and video projects include The White to Be Angry (1999),Designy Living (1994), “One Man Ladies” (with Glenn Belverio, 1994),Three Faces of Women (1993). She appears in films such as Super 8½(Bruce LaBruce, 1994), Hustler White (Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, 1998) and The Lollipop Generation (G.B. Jones, 2008) She also appeared in an episode of Gideon’s Crossing. Vaginal Davis is the publisher and editor of the zines Fertile Latoyah Jackson Magazine (sic)[2] and Shrimp. She has contributed writing to many publications, including Glue (in which he had a column called “Because I Said So”), “UR Chicago”, Ben is Dead, J.D.s and the LA Weekly. One of her stories was anthologized in The Best American Erotica of 2003, edited by Susie Bright. She regularly writes for the German/Dutch Zoo Magazine. She also has an upcoming book entitledBeware the Holy Whore, a compilation of her interviews with celebrities like Keanu Reeves, Missy Elliott, and Eminem. In her performances, Davis adopts a range of personae, some of which are entirely her own creation (e.g. Saint Salicia Tate), some of which are based on actual people (Bricktop, and Vanessa Beecroft). In 2007, Vaginal Davis moved from Los Angeles to Berlin, Germany and was never heard from again…. To find out where the bitch is: www.VaginalDavis.com
SassySays.com Drag History Month - January 1, 2012 - The Unsung Queens of The Stonewall Riots.
In the summer of 1969, the New York gay activist movement was born when a group of gay New Yorkers made a stand against raiding police officers at The Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Village. In those days, gay bars were regularly raided by the police. But on June 27, 1969, the patrons of The Stonewall Inn had had enough.
Soon, beer bottles and trash cans were flying. As the police raided the bar, a crowd of four hundred patrons gathered on the street outside and watched the officers arrest the bartender, the doorman, and some of the Drag Queens.
Police reinforcements arrived and attempted to beat the crowd away, but the angry protesters fought back, lead by the Drag Queens who had, had enough.
By 4AM, it looked like it was over. But the next night, the crowd returned, even larger than the night before. For two hours, protesters rioted in the street outside of the Stonewall Inn until the police sent a riot-control squad to disperse the crowd.
The following Wednesday, approximately 1000 protesters returned to continue the protest and march on Christopher Street. A movement had begun.
Due to the lack of historical recordings, exact facts and names are difficult to confirm. Some are more solid than others. However to any of our “Fore-Drag Mothers” whose names has been left out or forgotten in history. Today we remember you and your bravery in the face of adversity. Thank you, you will never be forgotten. Happy Drag History Month!
