Help Fund This Drag Documentary Where the Filmmaker Starts Wigging Out
When I meet Adam Golub, under the elevated tracks of the M train on one of the hottest days of the summer, he’s wearing a sleeveless top, shorts, sandals (the Teva-esque type that all Israelis seem to...
View ArticleBushwick’s Drag Festival Is Back — Hide the Kids! (Or, Heck, Bring ‘Em)
Macy Rodman performing at the inaugural Bushwig. (Photo: TheThinkTheater Queer Photography) Bushwick’s vibrant drag community is gearing up for the third annual Bushwig Festival—a celebration of all...
View ArticleOpen Wide for Mouthfeel, a Queer-Punk-Food Mag That Goes Deeper
inside Mouthfeel issue #1 When first you glance at Mouthfeel and prepare to take it all in, you might think: it couldn’t get more niche than this. And in some ways, you might be right. A food magazine...
View ArticleQueer Film Happenings Galore, From Eisenstein’s Outing to Out-There ’70s Porn
By the looks of things, October’s becoming something of a de facto Queer Film Month in New York City. Which is way cool, we’re always happy to see queer goings-on about town beyond Pride Month. And...
View ArticleBring Your Own Body To This All-Trans Art Show
Mark Aguhar, Making Looks, 2011. (Photo courtesy of the artist.) What do DJ and New Museum darling Juliana Huxtable, a former member of industrial outfit Throbbing Gristle, and “drag mother” Flawless...
View ArticleVaginal Davis Returns to New York, Taking on Sculpture and Mozart
Vaginal Davis (Photo by Hector, courtesy of Invisible-Exports) Vaginal Davis is undeniably one of the most prolific artists to come out of the ’70s punk scene. The black, inter-sex born, self-declared...
View ArticleBoylesque Star Raises Funds and His Body Is Up For Grabs?
Stephen Plante (AKA Vic Sin). (Photo: Dmitri Wildfong-Nishman)Stephen Plante’s stage persona, Vic Sin, is inspired by both masculine and feminine qualities, but is the Bushwick performer prepared to go...
View ArticleNew Queer Arts Magazine Posture is Trampling ‘Trashy’
Issue #2 Posture Mag launches this weekend (Courtesy of Posture) Winter Mendelson couldn’t wait to get the hell out of Georgia. “I graduated college and moved here, like, the very next day,” laughed...
View ArticleThrift, Browse, and Haggle Your Way Through ‘Question the Market’
(Image courtesy of Eric Schmalenberger) The House of Yes has something of a problem with their shimmering, funky, newish venue in Bushwick– they have a surplus of space, which is sort of a unique issue...
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