If you said “filled with potholes” and “dirty with sequin trash from New Year’s Eve,” you’re only half right.
There are dancing drag queens, singing drag queens, lip-syncing drag queens, stand-up comedy queens, reading drag queens, playing drag queens, acting drag queens, composing drag queens – all, more so than ever before, bolstered by a sense of righteous activism, gender inclusiveness and forceful self-determination.
And with no Mummers allowed.
There’s a history to the Philly drag scene that goes back to the ‘50s and ‘60s of Miss P’s and The New Forrest Lounge, and futurism carried into every drag brunch and dinner theater scenario.