Summary
Over the weekend of 22-24 June, a series of drag-inspired performance artists served up a menu of Gay Bingo, A Night of a Thousand Shirlies (in tribute to la Bassey, who was performing at the festival) and a re- enactment ofthe Stonewall riots, all to the sound of original disco. Co-op's character harks back to the Seventies, when drag queens in New York were key to the gay liberation movement, after fighting the po- lice in the Stonewall riots of 1969 .
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Dragtastic!
The chances of finding a drag queen in a field in Somerset are small. The chances of finding a whole crowd of them, dancing to pumping Seventies disco in a mock-derelict building, verge on the microscopic. "Believe me," drawls the drag queen Gateau Chocolat, resplendent in a bejewelled gold lamé headdress, "camping is really not ...
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