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Drag queens are nothing but innovative : CT-area drag performers adapt and survive amid COVID
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Connecticut s drag performers have adapted to offer virtual performances during the pandemic.Sky Casper / Contributed photo
Drag queens were, according to Rashawn Lee, able to shift their performance style to suit the pandemic relatively easily.
Other performers and artistic endeavors might have had a difficult time coming to terms with the new pandemic normal, but drag queens were well situated from the start.
“Drag queens are nothing but innovative when it comes to doing our craft,” he said.
Lee, who goes by the stage name Robin Fierce and is based in the Hartford area, is one of a small community of Connecticut drag queens who have had to roll with the pandemic punches, reinventing the scene first as lockdowns prevented live audiences and again when the market became saturated with online entertainment options.
Julie Denesha
Originally published on December 30, 2020 8:36 am
Artist Kwanza Humphrey s studio at the InterUrban ArtHouse in Overland Park is surrounded by the colorful, large-scale portraits he paints. He likes to swathe his subjects in African textiles.
“Black Americans have been uprooted from Africa,” Humphrey says. “I ll have models come in and sit for me and I ll take photos and I say wear whatever you want. It doesn t matter because I m probably going to change it and wrap you in these beautiful patterns from Africa. For me, it s a way of reconnecting with that culture that is lost and to see that richness.”