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Oliver Dixon
Music, drag, colour, garish looks, enchanting queer people – just my regular Saturday night. But this was London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, during its delightful Queer Nature: After hours event, a party for the Queer Nature celebration of diversity in plants and fungi.
Among the art and the performances, I loved drag king Beau Jangles singing 40s-inspired songs, DJ Auntie Maureen (pictured above), and Jeffrey Gibson’s “House of Spirits”, a radiant, large-scale artwork, suspended in Kew’s Temperate House.
But my highlight was strolling around taking in facts on bisexual flowers and asexual trees, while enjoying the fun, inclusive vibe. Humans can…