The O-Files return with a true Vancouver nightlife time capsule: Carlotta Gurl at The Odyssey in the ’90s and early 2000s.
Long before drag went mainstream, Carlotta Gurl was holding court at The Odyssey — one of Vancouver’s most iconic clubs — during a time when club kids, queer nightlife, and performance culture were loud, weird, and completely unapologetic. We get into what that era actually felt like: the music, the characters, the freedom, the excess, and the community that made The Odyssey legendary.
Carlotta shares stories from behind the booth and behind the curtain, what it meant to build a drag career before social media (or Drag Race), and why that era of nightlife still looms so large in queer culture today.
If you were there, this will hit.
If you weren’t, this is the history lesson you needed.
