The well-known San Francisco drag performer Heklina has died in London, in keeping with a social media posting from a fellow performer.
Heklina was anticipated to start out a efficiency subsequent week with good friend and fellow drag star Peaches Christ on the Soho Theatre. Their “Mommie Queerest” present was to start out April 12 and run by April 28.
In a submit on Fb, Peaches Christ mentioned she went to fulfill Heklina on Monday morning however discovered the performer useless of unknown causes.
“I’m shocked and horrified to deliver this information to you,” Peaches Christ wrote. “Heklina isn’t just my greatest good friend, however a beloved icon of our neighborhood.”
Heklina, the stage title of Stefan Grygelko, co-founded a preferred San Francisco drag present known as “Trannyshack” within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, in keeping with the San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper known as the present, later rebranded as “Mom,” “one of the crucial experimental, artistically daring drag venues within the Bay Space.” The present “recognized for its post-Punk, defiant aesthetic later influenced a lot of the native drag that got here after it.”
Lately, Heklina additionally performed Dorothy in a parody of “The Golden Women” that ran in the course of the holidays and hosted the podcast “Drag Time With Heklina.”
On Monday, as information of her reported loss of life unfold, Heklina’s followers went to social media to mourn and have a good time her life.
“I’ll miss you, 1000’s will miss you,” one individual wrote on Heklina’s final Instagram submit. “The recollections now we have and laughter we got by you’re the most treasured presents. Thanks for being so good to our neighborhood, Heklina.”
