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#drag #Heklina

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

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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."

sfchronicle.com/entertainment/

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#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.

bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp4lle

www.bbc.comFriend who found drag artist dead gets apology from Met PoliceSteven Grygelko, whose stage name was Heklina, was found dead by his friend Joshua Grannell.
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#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."

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f

The Guardian · Friends of drag artist found dead in London ‘furious’ at Met police responseBy Emine Sinmaz
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