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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

‘Drag lets me put my OCD and depression on the back burner’

For Luis Rowley, OCD and depression are something he needs to deal with daily.

But for Luey Lu, Luis’ drag persona, they are problems which seem a “million miles away”. The 22-year-old, who lives in Everton, is a hotel receptionist by day, but by night, is a self-proclaimed “over-excitable gremlin” who entertains audiences across the city.

While customers think they are simply just filling seats at his performances, what they don’t know is they are actually helping him battle his mental health issues by giving him a reason to get into his horror-inspired outfits.

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