Drag Divas – Self-expression – Movies
riginally from Mongolia, 22 year-old photographer and creative director, Steven Peice got his first camera when he was 18. Unable to afford college fees here as a non-Irish citizen, he chose to teach himself, and since then he’s gone from strength to strength. More recently Steven has been taking photographs of queer subjects, a big move for him, he says, given the attitude to LGBT+ people in his country of birth. His series, The Dreamers, portrays the queer power of transformation that drag queens embody.
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Our cover star, quintessential queen, Chanel is just one of the Dublin drag queens photographed by the up and coming to Steven Peice for our photo essay, ‘The Dreamers’. “I feel that in a way drag has always been seen as a goofy entertainment, and there’s no real focus on how these men are actually transforming themselves into fully realised fantasies,” Steven says, and we couldn’t agree more.
Elsewhere we get a queer flava of what’s on offer in both the Fringe and Dublin Theatre Festivals this year, we ponder why TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) have not made it across the water from England to our fair shores, people who identify under the plus in LGBT+ talk to us about the need to accept expanding queer identities, and we remember the mega-gay anthem that was Cher’s ‘Believe’. It’s a jam-packed issue, of that there can be no doubt!