Drag Race star Alaska recounts working at a gay porn shop in Circus of Books clip
— which chronicles the landmark establishment's rise — sees the drag superstar vividly recalling her days as a shopgirl.
"It was always my dream to work in a porn store. I'm a weirdo and a bit of a pervert, I guess," Alaska says in the clip, her trademark blonde wigs surrounding her. "They were very no bulls---, no-nonsense, [like] 'If you steal from us, you'll be fired, and that's that,'" she continues, referencing the heterosexual couple, Karen and Barry Mason, who runs the store and serves as the central focus of the film. "They're not offended.
"The heyday of this place was really, really jammin'. People spent money on books, magazines... whatever they wanted to," another employee, Ben Liefke, says in the clip. Barry adds that "in the month we opened, the first day the store did over $1,000" in sales on the road to becoming a thriving beacon of vitality for the Los Angeles
community, as well as one of the biggest distributors of hardcore gay porn in the country — especially during the dawn of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the ongoing homophobia that swept the nation as a result.premieres Wednesday on Netflix. Watch EW's exclusive clip from the film above, and be sure to follow along with all of Netflix's LGBTQIA+ content on its new channel
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