A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture...
A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick
A
New York Times New & Noteworthy book
One of
Logo/NewNowNext's 11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring
From the singular voices behind
Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things
RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture.
Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is
RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so,
Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but also an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work, and reach out to one another--and how they always have--and every bit of it is tied directly to
Drag Race. Each chapter is an examination of a specific aspect of the show--the Werk Room, the Library, the Pit Crew, the runway, the Untucked lounge, the Snatch Game--that ties to a specific aspect of queer cultural history and/or the work of certain legendary figures in queer cultural history.
Author: Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780143134626
Review Citation(s): Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2020
Shelf Awareness 03/27/2020
About the AuthorThe bloggers behind the massively popular site
Tom and Lorenzo,
Tom Fitzgerald and
Lorenzo Marquez offer their unique take on all things fashion and pop culture-related every day to an audience of more than seven million readers a month. They've appeared three times on Sundance Channel's
All on the Line, with Joe Zee, in which Joe called them two of the most important fashion bloggers today, made a dozen-plus appearances on Sirius XM Radio's The Derek & Romaine Show, and have been profiled, quoted or interviewed by
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times,
National Public Radio,
Entertainment Weekly,
People,
Vanity Fair,
Elle,
Rolling Stone, the
Daily Telegraph,
The Huffington Post,
Slate,
The Guardian, and
Newsweek, among others. They live in Philadelphia.
