Filthy Gorgeous: Six Queens Serve High Fashion in the City That Never Sleeps(0)

Filthy Gorgeous: Six Queens Serve High Fashion in the City That Never Sleeps

What is New York if not a city of night, as John Rechy titled his classic 1963 novel chronicling Times Square’s underground world of hustlers and social outlaws? The city’s reputation is built on its dynamic nightlife—particularly a dynamic queer nightlife, embodied by a community of drag queens, go-go boys, bartenders, promoters, and so-called “personalities” that have sung the siren’s call to many a small-town gay from around the country, and the globe.

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Funny, then, that the city has felt so dead. The spark, it seems, is gone from New York, snuffed out by legal crackdowns from the Giuliani era, real estate outpricing in the Bloomberg era, and general millennial malaise under de Blasio. However, this complaint about the Big Apple’s rotting core has already been lobbed by countless generations of jaded New Yorkers. Who can forget Lexi Featherston lamenting N.Y.C.’s death in “Splat,” an episode from the final season of Sex and the City? “New York is over!” she growls, chain-smoking out an open window that she ironically falls out of after her infamous last words, “I’m so bored I could die.”

That was in 2004, when New York was still kinda cool, right? At that time, the “it” parties were the nomadic MisShapes and Motherfucker, tame descendents of legendary clubs like Studio 54, Limelight, and the Pyramid, on which New York had build its nightlife cred—cred that was predicated, for almost a century, on a law that forbade dancing.

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