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#TBT: When the Cockettes Invented Cosmic Dragplay

Before RuPaul's Drag Race, before Paris Is Burning, Before Wigstock — the Cockettes were creating hallucinogenic performance drag.

Christopher Harrity Jul 02, 2015

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Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.

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