350-pound drag queen and gay satanist Garilyn Brune adds color to the Gershwin Hotel
The Gershwin Hotel in Los Angeles today is something akin to the Chelsea in New York during the 60's. In other words, it's a freak show of the greatest caliber. Edith Massey of John Waters fame originally convinced self-proclaimed gay Satinist Garilyn Brune to move to the city of angels. Years later, Brune, a 350=pound drag queen known as The Amazing Ruby, found himself living and working the graveyard shift at the Gershwin. Brune won a Tom of Finland art award for his piece Cocksuckers for Christ, which depicts a priest sucking off an aroused Jesus. He also draws fat drag queens in Prismacolor, a wax-based colored pencil.
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