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Photos: Bushwig 2018 Celebrates 'Drag, Music, And Love' In Queens
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John Del Signore
Published Sep 11, 2018
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A wet and windy weekend did absolutely nothing to dampen the energy and enthusiasm pulsating through the Bushwig Festival, the annual celebration of "drag, music, and love." Now in its 7th year, the self-proclaimed largest drag and queer music festival in the world returned to the Knockdown Center in Queens for two days of next-level sparkling style and visionary glamour.
Photographer Sai Mokhtari was on hand both days to capture the action—she reports back that Bushwig "has become maybe my favorite event in NYC. The creativity, the artistry, the bravado, the celebration of the grotesque, the bizarre and the beautiful...it's just the best. The drag scene in nyc is just on another level. Bushwig should honestly be 10 times more popular than it is—it's so fucking fun and fabulous."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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