On Monday evening i enjoyed the company of some amazing drag queens frocked up for the 2008 DIVA Awards at Paddington Town Hall.

It was oddly like catching up with old friends as i realised how many drag queens i’ve met in the past year shooting for Time Out.

Courtney Act who won the "Belle of the Ball" award. Last time i shot Courtney she was astride a life size plastic horse at Will and Tobys.

Faggot Rooster, who last time we met was showing me his Christina Aguilera hair strand.

A happy wedding couple.

i.Kandi, a ‘drag king’ who i’d previously photographed in her bath.

Kitty Glitter. A drag DJ i photographed at the gym.

Cleopatra Coupe – who does a remarkable job of mimicking everyone’s favourite plastic surgery disaster, Jocelyn Wildenstein.

Darlinghurst/Kings Cross legend Carmen.

Joyce Mange who i previously photographed causing a ruckus at Westfield Bondi Junction.

Julia Sommers was one of the poster-girls for the DIVA awards. She made a splash in 1986 as the first (and possibly last?) transgender woman to have a photo spread in Penthouse magazine.

See lots more pictures in a photo gallery linked off Time Out Sydney’s DIVA awards coverage.