Experience the origins of New York drag culture with rich archival footage and legendary queens.
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Wigstock was an annual drag festival which glamorously signaled the end of summer for the gay community in New York City for almost 20 years. Late one night in 1984, Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in the East Village to Tompkins Square Park and staged an impromptu drag show in the bandshell. This would soon become an annual drag bacchanal that lasted up until 2001. And now, Lady Bunny has brought it back. This past summer, the festival returned, bringing together legendary queens with some of the new children of drag, into one of the largest drag performances ever staged. Wig explores the origins and the influence of the historic festival through rich archival footage, as well as provides a look into the contemporary drag movement that the festival served as a foundation for. Wig is a celebration of New York drag culture, and those personalities and performances that contribute to the ways we understand queerness, art, and identity today.
"If you're interested in learning more about drag culture, you can't miss this HBO documentary. Through a great archive material, 'Wig' explores the rise of this scene in New York in the 1980s, its rise around the world - and eventually the fall of relevance of the Wigstock Festival (including the attempt to revive it in 2018). Featuring renowned drag queens such as Alaska Thunderfuck and Willam Belli, plus actor Neil Patrick Harris ('How I Met You Mother')."