Honey Mahogany

Posted by Cameron Parkins  Mahogany is a San Francisco-based transgender activist, drag performer and musician. She began performing drag while she was a student at the University of Southern California then co-founded the annual drag competition: Berkeley’s Next Top...

Pepper LaBeija (1948-2003)

Posted by Cameron Parkins  LaBeija was born in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. LaBeija identified as male but preferred “she/her” pronouns. She was famous for her role in the Harlem drag balls that began in the 1960s and were chronicled in the 1991...

Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014)

Posted by Cameron Parkins   Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014) DeLarverie was born in Louisiana to a black mother who was a servant to a white homeowner, her father. DeLarverie spent 1955 to 1969 as the MC of the Jewel Box Revue, a touring variety show featuring both...