The creators of the pop culture and fashion website Tom+Lorenzo decipher the references behind the recurring elements of the queerest show on the planet, from the library to the runway, including the hunks and lipstick messages on the mirror. But you don't need to have watched Drag Race (what are you waiting for?) to enjoy the moments and legendary figures of the drag world that inspire it.
As its authors warn, this is a book to be read with one hand... with the other, you'll want to Google videos, songs, or more information about the formidable characters who parade through its pages.
We witnessed the Stonewall riots with the legendary Marsha P. Johnson, the queen who strolled through New York with flowers in her hair, and Stormé DeLarverie, the drag king who patrolled Greenwich Village in a suit. We heard Crystal LaBeija, founder and mother of the formidable House of LaBeija, speak out for Black beauty at the Miss Gay America pageant. We snuck into the Harlem salons where vogue , the dance popularized by Madonna, was born, and into the clubs of 1990s London with Leigh Bowery and his impossible looks. All of this with the music of The Rocky Horror Picture Show playing in the background. It's the kind of history you didn't learn in school.
Author's biography
Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez have been a couple for a couple of decades. In 2006, they quit their jobs to pour their knowledge of film, music, fashion, and advertising into a queer-oriented website initially focused on television and called Project RunGay . Fifteen years later, the website Tom & Lorenzo , where they review television, popular culture, and fashion, has attracted an audience that now numbers in the millions. Tom and Lorenzo collaborate with various media outlets such as People , Forbes , and The Huffington Post . In 2014, they published their first book , Everyone Wants to Be Me or Do Me .
Book details:
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Written by: Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Publisher: Plankton Press
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Spanish
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Binding: Paperback
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Softcover: 320 pages
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Weight: 440 g
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Dimensions: 21 x 2 x 13.5 cm
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ISBN-10: 8419362018
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ISBN-13: 978-8419362018
