“And I’m Captain Hook.”ĭrag houses stem from ballroom drag culture of late-20th-century New York. “But I like to joke that she’s more the Peter Pan to our Lost Boys,” Torres jokes.
The two friends founded the drag house Haus of Libations, and Berry quickly took on the role of house mom. “We didn’t have that and didn’t think to travel over the hill to find a drag community to latch onto,” says Torres. Eli Torres and Suki Berry were downright thirsty for a sickening-that’s drag slang for “amazing”-queer arts scene in Santa Cruz last year.
