A Brooklyn couple hopes to do their part to support a 2016 presidential campaign.Hillary ClintonA Brooklyn company is bidding to create a Hillary Clinton action figure that makes the politician a ‘symbol of intelligence, strength, power and tenacity’
Wearing a light blue pantsuit, pearls and sensible mules, a miniature Hillary Clinton has hinged arms and a smiling face atop a swivel-ready neck. The “ready-for-action figure” is “not a doll”, according to its creators Jason Feinberg and Alyssa Zeller Feinberg, the husband and wife behind product design studio FCTRY. Read More...
ReligionThey identify with a religion that tells them their sexuality and their lifestyle are forbidden, but these men base much of their drag personas on their Jewish roots. Still, reconciling these two halves of themselves is an ongoing struggle
This March, one of New York’s up-and-coming drag queens, Lady SinAGAGA, made her debut at Tina Burner’s Invasion, at the historic Stonewall Inn. She began the night in an elegant silk robe, then took it off to reveal a rather sexy bodysuit coupled with knee-high boots. Read More...
MusicFifty years after her death, friends and fans including Al Sharpton assess the legacy of a singer who took gospel mainstream and became ‘as big as Beyoncé’
In 2018, following a bruising divorce, the British singer Sarah Brown was “broke, financially, emotionally and spiritually – I had nothing to live for”. At her lowest ebb, she turned to a voice that had given her crucial guidance and succour when she was a child: Mahalia Jackson, the pre-eminent gospel star of the 20th century. Read More...