Their stories are often as fierce as they are.

But all are showing us something amazing, something so wonderful and brave about themselves. Some are traditional some are extreme, some fall in between comedy and sultry. I love seeing all the different expressions of Drag that the Queens reveal each season. From fiction to tv to Broadway! From it being a crime to be fabulous and yourself in 1969 to being celebrated on the popular RuPaul’s Drag Race to appearing on Broadway in the terrific show “Cher” and everything in between, Drag Queens in every shape and variety are helping others and LGBTQIA rights move forward just as they did all those years ago. Either way, history was made that night and the fight for LGBT rights flew into the spotlight and into motion.ĭrag Queens (and drag culture) …those fierce, wonderful, gorgeous magnificent forces to be reckoned with are present everywhere now. Others say it was a cross dressing person of color.

Some say it was a drag queen who threw the first punch after the ” police roughed up a woman dressed in masculine attire (believed to be lesbian activist Stormé DeLarverie)”. Accounts differ over what exactly started it. Instead, as we all know, the crowd erupted into a riot. The objective was to shutdown the Stonewall Inn permanently. This time, arresting now only the regular patrons but targeting the drag queens and cross-dressing clientele because “masquerading” as a member of the opposite sex was a crime. The night before, the police conducted a raid, arresting employees and taking away the Inn’s illegal stash of liquor. They had been harrassing the clientele before but this time was different. On Jand into June 28 at midnight, the NYC police entered the Stonewall Inn which was tightly packed that hot summer night.

Dirty Drag by Kyle Adams