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Downtown Underground: A memoir of my time with the underground drag queens of Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Underground: A memoir of my time with the underground drag queens of Downtown Los Angeles

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Sex, Drugs, and False Eyelashes--

Surviving an encounter with a gun-wielding lesbian, a car chase by a jealous stranger, and being drowned by drag queens, The Downtown Underground is the satirical memoir of a queer kid that stumbled into the outrageous world of Downtown Los Angeles' drag scene.

When drag broke into the mainstream, it gave birth to a subculture of performers that didn't aspire to be media-friendly beauty queens. Instead, these drag queens embraced the culture of an underground art. The raw, monstrous underbelly of drag has since evolved into The Downtown Underground.

This coming-of-age adventure tells the story of a misfit queer struggling to find his place in the LGBT community.

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Pub dateJun 1, 2019
ISBN-10057851107X
ISBN-139780578511078
LanguageEnglish
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