Description: "Drag has officially transcended the underground and exploded into the mainstream. Queens have more visibility than ever, and it's been hard-won through decades of perseverance, imagination, and intergenerational support within local drag scenes. It's time to honor the queens who paved the way for the new generation and are still carrying out their work today. To create Legends of Drag, a photobook and archive of living queer history, authors Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus traveled coast to coast, visiting 16 cities to meet 80 legendary entertainers who shared boundless wisdom and powerful anecdotes from their lives"--
Brief description: Harry James Hanson is a genderqueer artist, creative director, and lifelong drag performer based in Brooklyn. For the past five years they have run a commercial photography studio, and their independent work has been published in the New York Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, New York magazine, Vice, and Dazed, among others.
Review Quotes: "Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus's beautifully designed photography book, Legends of Drag, is a tribute to 79 legendary drag elders who paved the way for the new generation of drag . . . The subjects of these profiles are both inspiring and funny."
--Shelf Awareness *starred* review