Mr. Wooden grew up in Brooklyn but came of age at Boy Bar, the not-quite-bar not-quite-nightclub where many an early ’90s drag queen was hatched.
At night, Mr. Wooden hosted Mona Foot’s “Star Search,” a weekly competition at Barracuda that preceded RuPaul’s “Drag Race” by more than 15 years and probably served as one of its inspirations.
During the day, Mr. Wooden ran the men’s department at the Patricia Field boutique, working alongside Candis Cayne, another of the scene’s best-known personalities.
By the end of the ’90s, Mr. Wooden had been cast as one of a gaggle of drag queens in “Flawless,” where he serves as one of Mr. Hoffman’s sidekicks and performs Cher’s “Half Breed” in a drag club.
As posted in the New York Times