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‘My day in a Liverpool alley with 35 drag queens’

Having won series four of Drag Race UK, Danny Beard, who uses they/them pronouns, knows all too well the benefits of their work being being given a prominent platform.

“The first time I ever did drag was at Liverpool Pride a long time ago. I looked absolutely awful and I called myself Katie Halfprice, but I just fell in love with the empowering experience that it is,” they told BBC News.

Fast forward to the present day and their drag has made them a household name. They‘re regularly on Prime Time TV, have their own show on BBC Radio One, and are now the poster girl for the Hastings exhibition.

Their face is plastered across the city, and on a 10ft advertising banner at the front of the gallery, just yards from the spot where it all began at Liverpool Pride.

For Danny Beard, though, the real magic of Hastings’ work is about championing the diversity of local drag queens who haven’t been given – or don’t want – a platform like Ru Paul’s Drag Race.


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