A Chicago drag legend celebrates his 80th birthday with showgirls, sequins and a few hundred of his closest friends: ‘He’s iconic and everybody knows it.’

Flint, who built a Midwestern drag dynasty from a tiny gay bar in River North, is the owner of the 52-year-old Baton Show Lounge — home of the longest-running drag show in the city — and the founder of the national Miss Continental pageant for female impersonators.

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