Carl Wahlstrom Archives - Chicago Reader

The cast of Mercury Theater Chicago's Priscilla Queen of the Desert stands in front of the prop tour bus. The three drag performers who are at the center of the show are in the center of the photograph wearing bright sleeveless jumpsuits and exaggerated wigs, striking poses. They are surrounded by "tourists" in shorts and camping shirts, taking their photographs.

Queens of the road

by Kerry Reid July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

In 1994, an Australian road comedy about three drag artists heading off in a beat-up tour bus across the Outback felt like a breath of fresh air in a cinematic landscape that tended to focus stories with “gay themes” on the tragedy of AIDS, and that still tended to view being trans as a punch […]

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The Inner Life of a Psycho Killer

by Chris Dickinson August 27, 1992August 20, 2021

A Conversation With Forensic Psychiatrist Carl Wahlstrom, One of the Expert Witnesses Who Interviewed and Evaluated Jeffrey Dahmer