Category Archives: In the Press

How out-of-work drag performers are lifting fans up through online pandemic shows: ‘A time to be creative

Full Article: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/drag-performers-lifting-fans-up-through-online-pandemic-shows-204412195.html Acid Betty, in addition to co-producing digital drag shows, has started a cottage industry of making and selling holographic face masks during the coronavirus crisis. (Photo: Acid Betty) Posed recently on a Facebook community page for the town of Provincetown, Mass. — a seaside getaway known for its mix of beaches and […]

Acid Betty on Her Artistry and Creating LED Visual Art for RuPaul’s Drag Race Live!

THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:: https://worldofwonder.net/acid-betty-on-her-artistry-drag-race-live/?fbclid=IwAR1rkf7a531Z2mptfNBSBBfF3C0TfYpApMq4jR20lQcz1MDboXQIwO_G4_Q Get ready for a trip… to Vegas, that is, for RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! (Literally) behind the show’s effortless dance numbers, original songs, talented queens, and flaming hot Pit Crew, lies art that lends a level of magic to RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! that has never been done or seen before. […]

How Drag Became America’s New National Pastime

Oh, hennnnnny: America loves its drag queens. Moms do, kids do, your local gay bars do. Even McDonald’s does. From the cast of the blockbuster remake of A Star Is Born to the pink carpet at the Met Gala — not to mention the millions around the world who’ve tuned in to RuPaul’s Drag Race for the last decade — what was once a glittery subculture on the edge of gay culture has become one of our global pop preoccupations with its own hierarchy of stars and story lines for the fans to get behind, marketing deals and Billboard chart-toppers. It’s become a very big business with its own star-power machinery attached. It’s become almost unavoidable. Their job is to make sure of it.

When Acid met the Brazilian legend Wandera Jones

Wandera Jones, icon of the night scene of Belo Horizonte, won the audience with their unique artistic creations For over two decades acting as a drag queen, mining Wandera Jones, 45, not surprisingly the beautiful-horizontino public, other places and even from abroad with your artwork. Social networks that lead and bring images from one place […]

Huffington Post : After Dark: Meet NYC’s Acid Betty, Artist And Nightlife Personality

This is the sixth installment in HuffPost Gay Voices Associate Editor James Nichols‘ ongoing series “After Dark: NYC Nightlife Today And Days Past” that examines the state of New York nightlife in the modern day, as well as the development and production of nightlife over the past several decades. Each featured individual in this series […]