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 catwalk, including the hunks and the lipstick messages written 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 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 through the eyes of 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 listened to Crystal LaBeija, founder and matriarch of the formidable House of LaBeija, raise her voice to reclaim Black beauty in the pageant. Miss Gay AmericaWe snuck into the Harlem salons where the Vogue, the dance that popularized MadonnaAnd in the clubs of 1990s London with Leigh Bowery and his outrageous looks. All of this with the music of The Rocky Horror Picture Show It's the background. It's the history lesson they didn't teach you in school.

Author's biography

Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez have been a couple for a couple of decades. In 2006, they left their respective jobs to dedicate all their film knowledge to their project. musicfashion and advertising on a queer-themed website initially focused on television and named Project RunGayFifteen years later, the website Tom & LorenzoTheir show, where they review television, popular culture, and fashion, attracted an audience that now numbers in the millions. Tom and Lorenzo contribute to 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.