Tag Archives: My Comrade Magazine

“Every Night in Drag” is a historical photo essay by drag queen Linda Simpson documenting a fantastic New York City queendom, from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.  (Posted every Monday and Thursday.)

 

FLASHBACK #2

SPRING 1989


UPDATE: PHOTOS MOVED TO EveryNightInDrag.com

Chris, photo shoot for My Comrade magazine.

 

 

 

Way back in 1988, gay marriage was considered so unbelievable and unattainable, that it was a fantasy story-line in the underground magazine that I used to publish, My Comrade.

Little did we realize that 23 years later(!), same-sex weddings would become legal in New York.

The images are fuzzy Xeroxes, but obviously still quite relevant!

 

The cover featured DJ Keoki and downtown sex symbol Aner Candelario…

The all-photo issue featured a visit to The Institute of Homosexual Inclination by a correspondent (Lisa Lederer) from the television news magazine Sixty Photos.

Director of the Institute was drag queen Hapi Phace.  Aner served as a guide.

Priest: Tommie Saeli.  Happy couple: Flloyd and Chris Corey.

 

 

Radical images indeed—now and then!

Photos by John Boyer and Keith Kotick (R.I.P.).