Lee Brewster

After he was fired in the 1960s as a clerk with the FBI for being gay, Lee Brewster moved to New York where he became a major mover of the Greenwich Village scene. It was a long way from his log cabin birth in Honacker, Virginia, in 1943. Once ensconced in NYC, he joined the gay activist Mattachine Society, organized drag balls, and later opened Lee's Mardi Gras Boutique, the first store catering primarily to cross-dressers. He also founded the Queens Liberation Army publishingDragmagazine. Brew