In Munich, right-wing conservatives are mobilizing against a drag reading for children, and drag culture is also being attacked elsewhere. The Berliner Gloria Viagra explains what she suspects behind the criticism – and what her drag identity meant from childhood.
My American drag friend Sherry Vine once said that putting on frumpy clothes is a political statement per se. She’s right about that. Anyone who comes out as belonging to a queer minority is taking an important step – for themselves, for our society.