Whether you think Valentine's Day is a corporate-created bullshit holiday meant to sell cheap chocolate or a day to make an extra effort to show your honey you love them, it's here, it isn't always queer, and we're going to have to get used to it.
Lucky for you, Dirge curated this Valentine's playlist...
A former teen Elvis impersonator from Tennessee, Lady C came to the California desert like a dream with a suitcase full of drag. Outside of disco-fied bathrooms, you can find her hosting her monthly cabaret at Mojave Gold in Yucca Valley, 2uesday Open Mic in Twentynine Palms, running fundraisers for the Joshua Tree No Kill Animal Shelter, showing art at multiple galleries, and popping up on indie movie sets to add a certain je ne sais quoi you can't get from anyone else.
Could a well-dressed young man with a friendly smile be dangerous? Of course he could, but this one was on crutches. Ted Bundy’s M.O. was asking young women for help.
Seth Gecko never thinks of the perfect thing to say ten minutes after a conversation; he's never caught off-guard, and you get the idea that he'd rather not hurt anyone. He just wants his cash and a bed somewhere he can get fresh Mexican food.
There are hardcore fans of every major serial killer and mass murderer from Dahmer to the Boston Bombers. Because hybristophilia is sexual in nature, the women in these communities do obsess over any new guy with a high body count, but they don't leave their old flames behind when they do.
