In the ’90s, with movies such as The Birdcage, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Paris is Burning, drag was slowly but steadily permeating popular culture. Drag mainstream was—thanks to, in no small part, larger-than-life personalities such as RuPaul and Lady Bunny—spilling over into the “regular” mainstream, despite its largely underground status. Photographer Michael James O’Brien spent much of the decade […]