Promoting a Book in the 1990s
Fiction
The first thing LaVette LaRue, or “L.L.,” as her friends called her, did wrong was underestimate the logistics of altering the famed Hollywood Sign. Ever since Harold, aka drag queen LaVette LaRue, started going to fashion design school and saw all those bolts of fabric, she got the idea of covering up every letter but the two L’s on the iconic sign as a way to promote her autobiography, Heels On Parade – My Life During the Warhol Years. Ms. LaRue had been staring at the sign in the distance every day from her fourth- floor apartment window as the lure of Hollywood actress Peg Entwistle’s final stop beckoned. Of course, LaRue had no
intention of throwing herself off the sign as Entwistle did but would pay homage to the late actress once up there. “She…was an icon, honey, like no other! We have to avenge her death by this sick town!” And, of course, promote LaRue’s book in the process. LaRue started lugging home an extra bolt of fabric here and there from school for her various design assignments for class. While all the other drag queens who lived in the building were jealous of LaRue’s forthcoming book, they were not about to miss out on altering the Hollywood Sign, if only for bragging rights. When the queens got together and realized just how much
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