Dragazine Magazine - The Magazine for Halloweeners and Inbetweeners
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Dragazine Magazine was an underground fan magazine published and edited by Freddie Bercovitz aka Lois Commondenominator, a non-professional drag queen enthusiast, reporter and admirer from Los Angeles, California, who reported on drag personalities, stars and ephemera between 1991-1997.
History[edit]
1991-1997
From 1991 to 1997, I, Freddie Bercovitz (also a contributor as Video Reviewer to Advocate Men Magazine in 1988 under the pen name Hands Solo), published Dragazine under my alter-ego Lois Commondenominator. The original format was that of a zine - 8 pages of word processed articles and photocopied photos pasted up on velox. Over that period, 10 issues were published. The initial print run was 1,000 and was sold as a subscription in the back pages of Advocate Magazine with the help of Sue Casa, co-pulbisher for Issues 1 and 2. Dragazine 3 through 10 were published alone by me, with the crowning success of having a 20,000 copy print run of the last issue which was carried in the zine section of Barnes and Noble Bookstores.
The pbulication self-proclaimed itself as "The Magazine for Halloweeners and Inbetweeners" because I understood that the magazine would be of interest to a number of audiences and no only gays like me who dressed up in Drag for Halloween. I opted for a breathy fanzine content featuring Drag performers and personalities that I had either seen personally, or read about in other publications. The coveted cover articles always featured Drag performers that I met with or knew personally. The publication also obtained permission to reprint articles from other magazines and collaborated with writers, editors and photographers to produce each issue. The magazine grew from the first issue with 8 page in black and white, to the 10th issue with a total of 40 pages of which 16 were color pages. Articles ran the gamut and included features about nightclub performers, adult film stars who crossdressed for their onscreen roles, makeup tips for Halloween, heterosexual crossdressers, transsexuals, drag in the media, and even an article featuring the now internationally known RuPaul, who was fresh from releasing his dance hit, Supermodel (You Better Work).
Dragazine Magazine was readership driven and had very little income from advertising, so in 1997, the print run ended because magazine sales in general were starting to diminish. Back issues may still be available online.
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