Drag Queens magazine, vol. 1 no. 2

This spread of society photographs in Drag Queens magazine documents a party celebrating the one-year anniversary of Queens Liberation Front, an organization devoted to expanding legal rights for gender expression and to fighting police harassment of transgender and gender-nonconforming people. During the 1960s and 70s, people could be arrested in New York for wearing clothing that did not match their legally assigned gender. Here we see a community of people—among them drag queens, cisgender male “transvestites,” and transgender folks—bravely and joyfully expanding the possibilities of gender identity and presentation.