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TELL-ALL

“I’m a Woman, Darling”: The Life and Times of Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn

February 5, 2025

To mark the release of his new tell-all book about his thorny friendship with Holly Woodlawn, Jeff Copeland joined us to peel back the curtain on the eccentric Warhol Superstar.

INSIDE

10 Queer Books I’m Packing in My Bottega Veneta Andiamo Bag

March 20, 2024

We took Bottega Veneta’s latest iteration of the Andiamo bag to the local bookstore to see how many queer reads the carryall could fit.

SUPERSTAR

Remembering Jackie Curtis, the Superstar Who Brought Drag to Off-Off Broadway

February 26, 2024

An homage to the master of camp and the controversial play that defined her work.

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Superstar

Who Is Candy Darling? Behind the Mystique of the Ultimate Warhol Superstar

February 19, 2024

Biographer Cynthia Carr, who has written the definitive record of the Warhol muse, talks to Mel Ottenberg about the vulnerable, gritty, and deeply soulful individual behind the fabulous facade.

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Inside MACHO, Dries Van Noten’s Exhibition of Rare Warhol Polaroids

November 22, 2023

“Warhol’s Polaroids are in our cultural DNA.”

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Life Lessons From the One and Only Andy Warhol

August 11, 2021

“In one way or another, Warhol was always in a kind of drag.”

How Candy Magazine Shaped the ‘Transversal’ World We Find Ourselves in Today

January 30, 2019

For the past decade, Candy has been the brightest star in the world of transgender fashion and photography. We spoke with the magazine’s founder, publisher, and creative-everything, Luis Venegas about his fabulous run.

Jayne County, the trans rock’n’roll star who influenced David Bowie, in her own words

April 19, 2018

Jayne County was the source material for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Gene Simmons’s tongue tricks and a helluva lot of Bowie signatures. When will she get her due?

Andy’s Candy: artist Colin Verdi

December 26, 2017

Artist Colin Verdi was inspired by Warhol’s unabashed gayness with his embellished Coach shearling lumber jacket.