Like so many queer kids before her and so many since, Violet Chachki noticed the rigours of gendered indoctrination young. Leaning towards drag, Chachki says, was “escapism, yes, but also therapy”.

Violet Chachki Brings Coperni, ... a velvet-covered library in the caverns of the cabaret that houses leather-bound books with decades of photos dating back to 1951.

Born Paul Jason Dardo in 1992, Chachki first tried drag as a 17-year-old, dressing as LA power twin Mary Kate Olsen for a Halloween party. “And that was it.” Her then-boyfriend went as Victoria ...

Drag superstar Violet Chachki has been a fan of the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris since the mid-2000s. When she first started doing drag performance in her native Atlanta, Chachki recalls stumbling ...

Like so many queer kids before her and so many since, Violet Chachki noticed the rigours of gendered indoctrination young. Leaning towards drag, Chachki says, was “escapism, yes, but also therapy”.