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Walk Like A Woman

April 7, 2025 – 11:07 am

WALK LIKE A WOMAN By Peter Nolan Smith Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. Sylvia Rivera MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2023 Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT was a funny movie about two musicians hiding from the Mob in an all-women band and I didn’t think much about men dressing as woman, until my […]

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Belated Happy Birthday Cookie Mueller

March 10, 2020 – 7:28 am

Today Marcus Leatherdale wished the late Cookie Mueller happy birthday. The Baltimore-born starlette of many John Water’s films passed from this life back in 1989. Cookie exalted in her childhood home stuck between the woods, a state mental hospital, and the railroad tracks. “There was no way I could turn good against those odds.” The […]

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Dearest Claudia Summer

October 5, 2013 – 2:32 pm

Dearest Claudia Summer Issey Miyake’s Bodywork, 1983. Photographer: Marcus Leatherdale.

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