Wigstock
wigstock annual outdoor drag festival began manhattan east village took place labor day continuing gap festival would traditionally act unofficial end summer gay community new york city year gap festival revived lady bunny neil patrick harris september pier south street seaport new york city name refers woodstock festival hosted cocreator lady bunny festival held first year tompkins square park according lady bunny event began spontaneously group drag queen along wendy wild nyc artist scott lifshutz couple fleshtones became inebriated nearby pyramid club decided put show park mids giuliani administration prohibited festival held tompkins square union square moved hudson river effectively ensuring would lose grassroots activist appeal lady bunny said wigstock would last wigstock bunny returned tompkins square time auspex howl festival video artist tom rubnitz filmed minute documentary titled wigstock movie rubnitzs film capture event early improvised atmosphere early year wigstock often made direct reference woodstock including performance artist john kelly sendup joni mitchell song woodstock rubnitzs film mimic aspect woodstock concert film second documentary titled wigstock movie released festival captured larger polished rock music largely supplanted house music influence original woodstock festival less evident film gained wider audience distributed across country released video dvd film wig chris moukarbel explores festival origin evolution incarnation lady bunny wigstock movie imdb wigstock movie short imdb