With a Virgin Mary strip show, lessons in how to sit on Santa’s lap and a carol about drugs, this festive extravaganza is about as alternative as Christmas can get. Is Britain ready for the New York legend’s show?If there’s one song that hardly seems C…
Saintmaking: the canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’
Director Marco Alessi speaks about the genesis of the documentary Saintmaking and working with the Sisters of Perpetual IndulgenceA new Guardian documentary, Saintmaking, tells the tale of a group of queer “nuns” in 90s London who decided to canonise D…
The duo who created Drag Race: ‘We saw RuPaul in a loincloth and went, “Oh my God!”’
They took RuPaul from obscurity to global fame – inventing The Adam and Joe Show along the way. As Drag Race UK returns to the BBC, we talk to Fenton Bailey and Randy BarbatoMore than 20 years before Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato launched RuPaul’s Dr…
‘We love everybody’: the French drag couple making non-traditional wedding dresses
James and ViviAnn Du Fermoir-de-Monsac want to create an atmosphere where those who don’t fit the vision of an ideal bride feel comfortableOn the third floor of a typical Alsatian building in Strasbourg, a door opens on to a bright atelier, dotted with…