Drag Houses: Chosen Family
By Jake Montano aka Imelda Glucose · Published on them.
In this excerpt from the forthcoming anthology Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection, contributor Jake Montano, a.k.a. the Bay Area drag queen Imelda Glucose, reflects on drag houses as a form of chosen family. I was nine years old the first time I applied makeup to my face. It was rouge that my older sister, who was barely a teen, had somehow gotten ahold of. I was used to hanging out together in her room, secretly getting lost in the dreamy eyes of celebrities ri