In 1992, after directing films for a couple of years, Harvey became fascinated with the androgenous world of drag queens. She found the performance art of Drag Queens in gay bars to be pure theatre - and theatre at some of its best.

Performers worked on make-shift stages with a curtain across a rope, doing their make-up and wardrobe in a small space back behind the kitchen in a bar. The drive to perform, and become someone that they are not, seemed to feed their soul. Harvey spent many nights with her camera, going from bar to bar, befriending these men she found so creative and so kind.

"Gail Harvey is one of the foremost artists in Toronto making documentary "street" photographs. Her series on Drag Queens is a poignant, direct look at a rather untold story in this country. Gail has never been afraid to get close and strip down walls. An unusual ability to get to the heart of things". - Jane Corkin.

"While so many others in her profession search for the readily available and obvious photo opportunity, she tends to look first for the irony. She is a photographer who interacts with her subjects, one who has the ability to vanish and be forgotten, who knows where to turn, and who knows when to let the subject make his own statement". - Roy MacGregor.