At first I thought this would be a fun book to read but after getting into it, it just becomes one big pain in the ass.
Sure people want to know the appealing aspects of doing drag but this book goes nowhere fast. In fact, there were times I thought I was reading a term paper on the subject.
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For the first 94 pages the author poses many questions and backs up the arguments, but at the bottom of EVERY page there’s a running interview with some of New York’s admired drag queens: The “Lady” Bunny, Chicklet, Hapi Phace, Miss Understood and Linda Simpson. Had the author placed these interviews as a section of the book I think the interviews would have been more effective.
Running the interviews at the bottom of the page was a clever idea at first but then it gets pretty annoying. However, the interviews were a good idea and it shows how the queens really are. Snobby, conceited and a “look at me, I’m better than you” attitude. The claws really come out during the interviews.
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Once you get past these pages the rest of the book becomes nothing but a showcase for some of the “top” queens in the city. While some of the profiles are interesting you can’t help ask yourself, “Why?”
And that’s exactly what I kept asking myself.
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