#drag #Heklina

"Heklina was brutally honest. We should be too when we talk about her legacy

(. . .)

Like many drag queens, Heklina was an inconvenient truth-teller.

She was honest about taboos like sex, drugs and mortality in the LGBTQ community for more than four decades. San Francisco drag laureate D’Arcy Drollinger remembers Heklina, who was HIV positive, as among the few queens in the city to tell AIDS jokes in the late 1980s and early ’90s as the disease ravaged the community and reshaped its attitudes toward sex.

(. . .)

Now two years later, as her friends and fans process new revelations about Heklina’s death, the community is trying to come to terms with her legacy with that same honesty."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/heklina-death-legacy-sf-drag-20251189.php

Anna Bauman & Tony Bravo: Crowds rally for #Heklina in #London and S.F. to demand justice for late #drag queen

#SanFrancisco #trans #LGBTQ
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/heklina-rally-london-sf-20246574.php

There's that institutionalised homophobia which makes us Queers more vulnerable to predators because ultra-hetreos who creep out the lady officers don't see us as fully human.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/31/scotland-yard-protesters-demand-justice-for-drag-artist-found-dead-in-soho-in-2023

#ACAB #TheMet #Heklina #LGBTQIA

#Heklina #ACAB #UK

"The Metropolitan Police force has apologised over its investigation into the death of an American drag artist in April 2023.

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In March 2023, a review by Baroness Casey into the force found institutional homophobia, racism and misogyny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp4lleg2mo

#Heklina #drag

"When the well-known American drag artist Heklina was found dead in a London flat, her family, friends and fans were desperate for answers.

Only now, almost two years later, have police released CCTV of three men who were at the 55-year-old’s flat on the night she died.

Those close to Heklina, whose real name was Steven Grygelko, want to know why detectives have taken so long to issue an appeal as they remain in the dark about the cause of death."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/friends-of-drag-artist-found-dead-in-london-furious-at-met-police-response

It's almost like the homophobic, racist and sexist Met doesn't value Queer lives or something?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/friends-of-drag-artist-found-dead-in-london-furious-at-met-police-response

#TheMet #ACAB #LGBTQIA #Heklina

Amanda Bartlett: New details emerge in investigation into San Francisco drag legend's death

"Nearly two years after the sudden death of legendary San Francisco #drag performer #Heklina, London police have issued a public appeal seeking out three men who were seen leaving the flat where her body was found early on the morning of April 3, 2023."

#London #SanFrancisco
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/heklina-death-investigation-sf-london-20058802.php

Since mysterious #death in a compromising position in #London in 2023, friends of infamous #SanFrancisco drag performer #Heklina have sought answers. #UK police have finally released a photo of persons of interest that they have had for 2 years

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/new-photos-heklina-death-20054044.php

Timothy Karoff: #Drag legend #Heklina immortalized in mural in San Francisco's Castro District

#sanfrancisco #dragqueen
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/drag-legend-heklina-immortalized-castro-mural-18165999.php