Louche Magazine Drag Feature

Louche is a joyfully anarchic and independent occasional print magazine about drag and queer performance.

It aims to celebrate, interrogate, and create a living archive of drag today, as well as pay hom(o)age to the varied histories and influences of the drag past.

So much of drag is rooted in the ephemeral reality of live performance and this raises questions around how to capture the art of drag. Taking inspiration from the Documentation Action Research Collective (DARC), who explore how the Photograph can be “an alternative space to the Gallery or the Theatre”, Louche aims to explore the Magazine as a different kind of platform from which to create drag art.

In Issue 2, I am interviewed about my ‘pack’, faux penis, and its role in my performance, alongside some beautiful still life images of my costumes

“The second instalment of Louche, the drag magazine, is here! The theme of this issue focuses on the material culture of drag; the objects, the things, the ephemera, that serve to create drag magic.“

Issue #2 features: Izzy Aman; Barbs; Cassandra; Cyro; Georgeous Michael; Sin Wai Kin; Kallum Király; Sigi Moonlight; Just May; Hardik Mistry; Myla; Indy Nile; Rhys’s Pieces; Rosy Pendlebaby; Oedipussi Rex; Tommy Rimmerson; Prinx Silver; Lilly SnatchDragon; Loose Willis

With writing by: Amelia Abraham; Tito Bone; Umber Ghauri; Jake Hall; Emma Kroeger; Martha Margetson; Orlando Myxx; Brooke Palmieri; Queer Ecologies

Photography, Make-up & Styling by: Christa Holka; Pauline Di Silvestro; Corinne Cumming; Ezekiel; Umber Ghauri; Heather Glazzard; Eddie Langham; Roxy Lee; Ro Murphy; Orlando Myxx; Lottie Parry; Peter Robertshaw; Matt Spike

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