Butch Queens Up in Pumps : Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit /

"Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Marlon M., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sexual minorities.
Gay culture.
Gay and lesbian dance parties.
Drag queens.
Drag balls.
African American gays.
Minorites sexuelles > Michigan > Detroit.
Homosexuels noirs americains > Michigan > Detroit.
Culture homosexuelle > Michigan > Detroit.
Bals de travestis > Michigan > Detroit.
Soirees dansantes homosexuelles > Michigan > Detroit.
Sexual minorities > Michigan > Detroit.
African American gays > Michigan > Detroit.
Gay culture > Michigan > Detroit.
Drag queens > Michigan > Detroit.
Drag balls > Michigan > Detroit.
Gay and lesbian dance parties > Michigan > Detroit.
Michigan > Detroit.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey's rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community."
Item Description:Includes glossary of ballroom community terms and phrases.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780472029372

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