Linda Simpson s epic pictorial stroll down Drag Queen Memory Lane captures that golden age of nightclub culture occupying the 1980s and 90s where creativity and fierceness combined in kaleidoscopic ways.
A co-founding member of the band Mumps (with the late Lance Loud of PBS
An American Family fame), Hoffman has been associated with a spectacular line-up of influential musical acts including Klaus Nomi, Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo Powers, Ann Magnuson, El Vez, Prince Poppycock and countless others. The previously mentioned Mumps are getting the special reissue treatment with
Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You ve Got Mumps (Omnivore), a single disc 23-track compilation including nine bonus tracks, two of which are previously unissued. Kristian was kind enough to answer a few questions related to his career and the Mumps in May 2021.
Just in time for Pride 2021 arrives Linda Simpson s epic pictorial stroll down Drag Queen Memory Lane. It was that golden age of nightclub culture occupying the 1980s and 90s where creativity and fierceness combined in kaleidoscopic ways. It was a time well before the annals of
RuPaul s Drag Race when, in Simpson s own words, drag was not very careerist, it was done for fun and not for celebrity or a lucrative fan base.
Those were the days when the fight for individuality and identity collided head-on with rampant bigotry, anti-gay violence, and a deadly epidemic that decimated gay communities across the globe.
Lina’s Great Escape
Lina Bradford trans icon and consummate traveler coped with the lockdown by going back into her closet where she filmed a new season of
In the Dollhouse with Lina. May 14 2021 2:30 PM EDT
Like so many of us, Lina Bradford will remain home this summer. “I miss Paris, Mykonos, and Ibiza most of all,” the star of the popular IGTV show,
In the Dollhouse with Lina laments. She has made trips to Provincetown, her mother’s home in The Poconos and enjoyed a few weekends in the Hamptons but this will be the first time in thirty that Bradford has not traveled internationally.