Gladys Bentley Quotes

If we want to be seen as legendary, we have to weave ourselves into history. If we were to make a quilt of drag, I'd want pieces from all over. A stretched hide from a shaman's tent; silk from Gladys Bentley's tuxedo; sequins from Divine's wiggle dress; hair from RuPaul's wig.

at 146 West 133rd Street, laying it down gently in front of a nondescript residential building that was once the site of the infamous gay speakeasy Harry Hansberry’s Clam House. Doing this at a spot owned by Gladys Bentley, pioneering drag king and Black lesbian icon, reminded