Recto: Lulla La Polaca is the oldest drag queen in Poland. Born Andrzej Szwan in 1938 in Warsaw into a family of Jewish origin, he was rescued from the ghetto and witnessed the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
He was an active member of the Warsaw gay community at the time of the Polish People’s Republic, remaining an activist for the rights of non-heteronormative people and the queer community in Poland to this day. He made his debut on stage in 2012 thanks to Kim Lee, a Polish drag queen of Vietnamese origin here depicted together with Lulla on the night of her debut. The other photographs show cross-dressing parties in which Lulla would wear “a red dress made of a flag”, as she jokingly recalled it.

Verso: Title Page to "The Discription of the severall sorts of Anabaptists" by William Marshall, British, active ca. 1617–1650.