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Manila Luzon Remembers the Life of Her Friend Jiggly Caliente: ‘She Started My Chosen Family’

Mainla Luzon pays tribute to her deceased friend Jiggly Caliente in a touching new essay.

On Sunday (April 27), the family of Bianca Castro announced that the iconic performer — better known by her drag name Jiggly Caliente — had passed away, after battling a severe infection that resulted in the amputation of her right leg. Below, Luzon looks back on the first time the two of them met, their mutual love for reading each other and why she considers Caliente to be “the person that really started my chosen family.” It’s just those little things — that little gamer, comic-book-nerd side that you wouldn’t guess about her when she’s in a sequin gown lip synching something so fiercely on the stage — that I’ll miss.

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