#queer-performance

#queer-performance

As the festive season gets underway, Booters Butch Bar served up a merry special treat that certainly won't fit under your tree: the Dyke Santa contest. Hosted at the Old Nun's Head, on Nunshead Green in Peckham, the event was MCed by Booters Butch Bar 's own Oran Keaveney. They were joined on the judging panel by London drag scene staple Nat Funni and Vic Smith, manager at longstanding New York City lesbian dive bar Cubbyhole.

In the philosophy of Practice Makes Love Easy (PMLE), love is not just a feeling-it's a daily discipline, a creative force, and a communal rhythm. It is with great honor to present Carly Ozard (they/them/she) as the ninth accomplished individual featured in this column. Few embody the ethos of PMLE as fully as Ozard, who is a non-binary entertainer, educator, and activist whose voice carries across stages and communities from San Francisco to New York. Ozard's work is a living testament to love practiced boldly, inclusively, and with deep intention.