The Miami queen who gifted the city with the multiday drag festival Wigwood — which New Times honored with the title of "Miami's Best Festival" in 2018 — is the glue that binds the Magic City's newest generation of queer artists, performers, and partiers, from South Beach to the mainland. Whether she's teaching kids how to sew at the public library, curating a queer art exhibit in collaboration with Hôtel Gaythering, or welcoming any LGBTQ+ in need into her House of Shame, the slender, bearded, and always chic Queef Latina (Antonio Méndez out of drag) is altering the fabric of queer Miami forever.
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