Bushwig Grows Up The annual festival celebrated 10 years of drag, queerness and artistry this month, but some local queens want more.
Photographs by Camila FalquezBy Julia Carmel Bushwig, the end-of-summer drag weekend extravaganza held each year in New York, was born of a simple desire.
It was 2012, and the drag queens Horrorchata, 36, and Merrie Cherry, 38, were day drinking with their friend Simone Moss, 41, at a bar in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
At one point, Horrorchata recalled in a recent phone call, she realized: “All my friends do drag.” And: “I wanted to see all my friends on the stage.” A decade later, the annual festival created by Horrorchata and Ms.