Essentially Edinburgh: dance, drag and plenty of drama at the 2024 festival – in pictures
Photographer Murdo MacLeod covers Scotland’s annual arts spectacular, from a musical Mexican seance to colourful juggling
‘I exist outside of gender’: drag colossus Wet Mess on being ‘horny for your confusion’
Having rocked queer clubs to their foundations, Wet Mess is now electrifying Edinburgh with a show about testosterone and a stunning new take on drag
It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom
The US singer’s debut album hit UK No 1 nearly a year after it was released, as fans fawn over her maximalist pop, queer themes and magnificent displays of camp
July 2024
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S7, Ep7: Bimini, drag queen
Photographer Magnus Hastings celebrates the artistry and pride of drag
10 Chaotic Questions
Michelle Visage: ‘The oldest thing I own? Probably my vagina’
Unicorns star Jason Patel: ‘If you don’t toot your own horn, who else will?’
Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens
‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: drag artists with Down’s syndrome – in pictures
April 2024
Joy in Taiwan – and praise from the president – as Nymphia Wind wins RuPaul’s Drag Race
Drag star celebrated with massive support at home after taking top prize in the long-running US reality show
The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’
Not long after the 1994 film became a smash hit, the titular bus disappeared. Where did it go? Who had it? And could it be recovered before it was too late?
Drag Race is essential educational viewing
My best shot
A smalltown drag queen vapes at night: Michael O Snyder’s best photograph
Drag: a sexist caricature, or a fabulous art form?
March 2024
‘I really had to work for it’: Courtney Act on loving – and performing – Olivia Newton-John
The secret life of Paul O’Grady – by his friends: ‘His number’s still saved in my phone. I can’t delete it’
Priscilla the Party! review – jukebox musical dances back to a desert of divas
Monét X Change: Life Be Lifein’ review – Drag Race champ’s fabulous rise to fame
The rural network
‘Our town really needs this’: setting the stage for the first LGBTQ+ festival in Orange
Book of the day
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul review – poignant, egotistical and often wise
