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 the lipstick messages on the mirror. But you don't need to have seen it. Drag Race (What are you waiting for?) to enjoy the moments and legendary figures of the drag world that inspire him.
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 walked 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, raise her voice to vindicate Black beauty at the Miss Gay AmericaWe sneak into the Harlem living rooms where the vogue, the dance popularized by Madonna, and in the clubs of nineties London with Leigh Bowery and his impossible looks. All of this to the music of The Rocky Horror Picture Show 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 respective jobs to pour all their knowledge of film, music, fashion, and advertising into a queer-oriented website initially focused on television and named Project RunGayFifteen years later, the web Tom & Lorenzo, where they review television, popular culture, and fashion, attracted an audience that now numbers in the millions. Tom and Lorenzo collaborate with various media outlets such as People, Forbes either The Huffington PostIn 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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Editorial: Plankton Press
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Language: Spanish
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Binding: Rustic
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Soft cover: 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
