Wigstock was an annual drag festival which glamorously signaled the end of summer for the gay community in New York City for almost 20 years. Late one night in 1984, Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in the East Village to Tompkins Square Park and staged an impromptu drag show in the bandshell. This would soon become an annual drag bacchanal that lasted up until 2001. And now, Lady Bunny has brought it back. This past summer, the festival returned, bringing together legendary queens with some of the new children of drag, into one of the largest drag performances ever staged. Wig explores the origins and the influence of the historic festival through rich archival footage, as well as provides a look into the contemporary drag movement that the festival served as a foundation for. Wig is a celebration of New York drag culture, and those personalities and performances that contribute to the ways we understand queerness, art, and identity today.
21 April 1963, El Paso, Texas, USA
30 January 1980, San Francisco, California, USA
March 26, 1961 in Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
27 June 1975, Louisiana, USA
17 November 1960, San Diego, California, USA
1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1955, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, USA
3 October 1949, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
28 November 1981, Newton, Iowa, USA
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
12 February 1972, California, USA
October 9, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 December 1967, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA
July 13, 1947 in Dallas, Georgia, USA
15 June 1973, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
