A solo performance of movement and lipsync ruminating on my mother and her anxieties. December 2025

Three queer researchers slip between the present and the past, becoming, interacting with, and learning from a chorus of voices from a critical moment in the queer liberation movement. the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table is a performance, immersive media project, and archive of queer care that stitches together stories from COVID-19 and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Photographs by Mel Cardona, Beth Barbis, and Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee

Conceived and Directed by Lyam B. Gabel

Media and Additional Research: Joseph Amodei
Clothing Design: jean-luc raimond deladurantaye
Sound Design: Eben Hoffer
Set Design: Sasha Schwartz
Lighting Design: André Segar
Composition: kei slaughter
Performed by and Developed with Hannah Cornish, Frank Barret, and Owen Ever
Stage Management: Leo Liotta
Audio Editing: Travis Wright
Scenic Assistant: Peyton Koehler
Clothing Assistant: Emma Pollett
Dramaturgical Support: Sammie Paul

Drag thing bon vivant.
Email frankieflowersdrag@gmail.com for booking

Artifacts of Transition, receipts from pit stops on a journey. The first in this series, Say Goodbye to Hollywood, includes a definitive before and after, recorded for your listening pleasure on tape. To be trans in 2021 is, in general, to be bereft of elders. We have our friends, we have ourselves, and we have 23 year olds on the internet. We muddle through with panache. I want to share with you this feeling of living all your life in a single room only to realize, at the age of 30, that there's an entire wing, full of treasures, you never knew existed. Please have a seat and listen in.

Photographs by Lily Brooks

Artifacts of Transition Ep. 1: Say Goodbye to Hollywood premiered at The Front Gallery in New Orleans in February 2021.

A multi-room installation about the absurdities and hypocrisies of white suburban culture.