Decades before the dawn of RuPaul’s Drag Race, British playwright Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show challenged the status quo and championed a similar message of self-acceptance. Both the Logo reality series and the 1973 musical transcended their early cult status to become icons of pop culture. In 2012, director Greg Hinojosa, then with the…
Rey Lopez Throws a Bash Fit for a Queen
When RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) premiered on the Logo network in 2009, no one could have predicted the type of cultural phenomenon it would become, thrusting gay culture into the mainstream, breathing new life into the world of drag and bringing the show’s namesake out of 1990s-era oblivion. Only two years later, local nightclub promoter…
Rey Lopez and Greg Hinojosa Bring ‘Rocky Horror’ to Josephine Theatre
Updated: October 19, 2016 With the eighth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race now in the books, Rey Lopez Entertainment is making sure you get your “Drag” fix well into the rest of the year! In May, Rey Lopez Entertainment announced a partnership with Greg Hinojosa of Sassy Entertainment that would bring their production of The…
‘Drag Race’ performer jailed in SA
A performer from the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race posted a YouTube video on March 15 in which he discusses his incarceration at the Bexar County Jail and the conditions inside the prison. Jaremi Carey, who performs under the name Phi Phi O’Hara, was arrested in Austin in February after arriving from Canada where…