{"id":3564,"date":"2015-05-28T06:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2015-05-28T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T06:24:03","slug":"girlfriend-drag-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/girlfriend-drag-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Wig Up: Girlfriend’s Ode to 90s Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the ’90s, with movies such as\u00a0The Birdcage,<\/em>\u00a0To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar <\/em>and Paris is Burning,\u00a0<\/em>drag was\u00a0slowly but steadily permeating popular culture. Drag mainstream was\u2014thanks to, in no small part, larger-than-life personalities such as RuPaul and Lady Bunny\u2014spilling over into the “regular” mainstream, despite its largely underground status.<\/p>\n

Photographer Michael James O’Brien spent much of the decade capturing the forces behind the drag explosion: the big, bold drag queens that encapsulated the freedom, creativity and spirit of drag culture in the 90s. What resulted is a unique exhibition, on display now, celebrating the culture of drag of the grunge decade.<\/p>\n

Girlfriend<\/em> is on show at Liverpool\u2019s international photography festival from May 14 – 31st.<\/p>\n

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Dorian Corey<\/p><\/div>\n

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Constance<\/p><\/div>\n

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La Homma<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lavinia Co-op<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sister Dimension<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lady Bunny<\/p><\/div>\n

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Miss Guy<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the ’90s, with movies such as\u00a0The Birdcage,\u00a0To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Paris is Burning,\u00a0drag was\u00a0slowly but steadily permeating popular culture. Drag mainstream was\u2014thanks to, in no small part, larger-than-life personalities such as RuPaul and Lady Bunny\u2014spilling over into the “regular” mainstream, despite its largely underground status. Photographer Michael James O’Brien […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[219,220,221],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-culture","tag-drag","tag-lady-bunny","tag-michael-james-obrien"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}