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The legendary Jose Julio Sarria, also known as the Widow Norton and Empress I Jose, the founder of the International Court System and America’s first openly gay candidate for public office, died yesterday at the age of 91. Here’s a recap of the below clip: “A short tribute to the Founder of the Imperial Court System, Jose Sarria who passed …

The legendary Jose Julio Sarria, also known as the Widow Norton and Empress I Jose, the founder of the International Court System and America’s first openly gay candidate for public office, has died at the age of 91. GLAAD has posted a remembrance: One of America’s gay rights pioneering leaders, José Julio Sarria, passed away quietly in his home in …

A surprisingly straight-forward deep house track.

Yesterday my pal Jerry accompanied me to the Invasion Of The Pines, the 37th annual marking of the day in 1976 when a drag queen was denied service at a restaurant in Fire Island Pines. Every Fourth of July since then, hundreds of drag queens board a chartered ferry in Cherry Grove and “invade” the Pines for a day exploding …

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the ninth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. This year it appears a week early because of a widely circulated …

Billionaire Virgin America founder Richard Branson has settled a racing bet by working a shift in drag aboard a competing airline. Donning red lipstick, a flight attendant’s skirt and high heels, the maverick businessman served drinks, made intercom announcements and chatted up passengers on an AirAsia X flight from Perth, Australia, to Kuala Lumpur. Two years ago, Branson and AirAsia …

Clip recap: “The world’s most famous drag queen tells The Times’s Marcus Mabry that despite progress on gay rights, the pendulum could swing the other way.” Stick around for when Ru talks about “the love of my life for the last 19 years.” (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family, & Property are rilly rilly upset about a drag show  scheduled to take place at the University of San Diego. Via press release: The Drag Show will be emceed by Manila Luzon, a professional Drag Queen, openly homosexual man, who advocates same-sex “marriage.” Students opposing this years cross-dressing Drag Show will hold a …

Spin Magazine provides a review: Puscifer mostly play it straight on their recent cover of Queen’s glam-opera classic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which appears on the band’s new Donkey Punch the Night EP, out today (February 19). The same can’t be said of the six-minute epic’s John Waters-flavored music video. Frontman Maynard James Keenan and drag performer Dina Martina superimpose their heads …

No more Grindr, you heathen.

The first theremin-drag-Xmas song ever?

Featuring Raven from RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Directed by Boy George and Dean Stockings.

SF Weekly reports: You can count on San Francisco to keep things real, and last night the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence didn’t just keep it real, they kept it really entertaining. Was it a coincidence that the sisters had dinner reservations next to the very conservative Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio (aka “America’s Toughest Sheriff”) last night at John’s Grill in …

With help from Sarah Jessica Parker and Shangela. (Via Towleroad)

Via press release from Visit Philly: Philadelphia drag star Ian Morrison, a.k.a Ms. Brittany Lynn, and her Drag Mafia will be the first “Drag Brigade” to ever march in the Philadelphia Mummer’s Day Parade on New Year’s Day. James Julia, President of the Mummers Brigade Association, and Rocco Gallelli the current Mummers Board President, asked Morrison and his Drag Mafia …

Washington DC’s famed High Heels Drag Race took place last night after a several day storm delay. Video by my pal Zack Ford.

Quite the production and pretty catchy as well.