Just when we thought we were out of world-historic misery, something pulls us back in. As we emerge blinking from our coronavirus caves, another Antarctic ice shelf collapses and Putin invades neighboring Ukraine. Marquee actors attack on an award show and in Hawaiian karaoke bars. The film Soylent Green was set in 2022. That Charlton Heston foretold the collapse somehow makes it even worse.
As we get used to our catastrophic new normal, some of us are refusing to give in. “The thing about us queens is we’re resilient and work with what we have,” says CT Hedden, who is by night the general manager of New York City’s immortal hot spot Indochine, raging since 1984, and by later-night a hardworking drag queen with a fashion sense so strong he (Hedden is masc-identified) was welcomed to the VogueWorld 100 in 2021.
