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Even though almost any child loves to read from a world of books when at the library, parents are bringing their small children to public libraries in new york to hear drag queens read the latest. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Drag queen story hour offers a different kind of page. Oddly enough, it would be the new york mafia, and the genovese family in particular, who would covertly give the drag queens.
This smart, witty, and insightful tour of manhattans most dazzling arena of stylethe wildly popular culture of dragfeatures interviews with lypsinka, rupaul, lady bunny, and other notorious queens who can click their heelseven when theyre eight inches off the ground. New york is, without question, the world capital of the drag arts. House of ellegrande book 2 kindle edition by splinters, malachite. The accidental historian of drag queens the new york times.
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