Candy Gets Her Flowers

Fifty years after her death, trans pioneer and legendary Andy Warhol muse Candy Darlingis having a moment. And we’re so here for it.

BY DESIRÉE GUERRERO, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MEY RUDE

IF CANDY DARLING were still with us, she would celebrate her 80th birthday this November. But the trailblazing actress died of lymphoma at age 29 in March 1974. Now, 50 years after her death, there’s renewed interest in this trans changemaker’s story with a new book and an upcoming biopic. Darling, who was born in Queens, N.Y., became one of Andy Warhol’s most notable “Superstars,” the name for his entourage of artists and performers, many of whom were queer and/or gender-nonconforming. She met the renowned pop artist Warhol in 1967 and is immortalized in his art films Flesh and Women in Revolt. Warhol wasn’t the only one who saw Darling as a muse. The blond beauty was a mainstay in the New York art scene and inspired many other popular artists of…

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