Photographer Magnus Hastings celebrates the artistry and pride of drag

Queen, his biggest show to date, opens in Liverpool and features new commissions of the city's drag performers

As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister's clothes and wearing his mother's heels and feather boas, before he got shamed out of being a drag child".

Now, decades later, the award-winning photographer is celebrating the artistry of drag and the collective spirit of pride in his biggest exhibition to date at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.