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  1. An Exotic Gay Subculture Turns Poignant Under Scrutiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dunning, Jennifer
    Date: Mar. 23, 1991
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transvestites
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Meg McLagan, Octavia St. Laurent, Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of how the film "Paris is Burning" relates to ball culture in New York City.
  2. Brenda Holder Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Holder, Brenda, Keyes, Anna
    Date: Apr. 4, 2018
    Topics: Drag balls, Drag community, Drag queens, Homelessness, Intolerance, Latinos, LGBTI community, Military, Role models, Transsexual people
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Paris Dupree, Pepper Labeija
    Description: Army veteran and drag queen Brenda Holder discusses finding community in the drag world through her journey as a Hispanic trans woman. Holder tells interviewer Anna Keyes of her relationships with ...
  3. Butch Queens in Drag: Issues of Race and Gender

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Cavanagh, Chris
    Date: May 1991 to Jun. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, Drag balls, Film, Voyeurism
    Subject: House of Ninja, House of Saint Laurent, House of Xtravaganza, Jennie Livingston, Madonna, MTV, Paris Is Burning, Pepper Labeija, Pop Cult, Vogue
  4. T.V. Transvestite

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: di Bagno, Simone, Capozzi, Michele
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Ball culture, Ballroom families, Black transgender people, Butches, Drag balls, Gay men, LGBTQ+ fashion, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender people of color, Transitioning (Gender), Voguing
    Subject: Dorian Corey, House of Labeija, Pepper Labeija, Sugar
    Description: A documentary that captures a ball thrown by House of Labeija at Harlem Bingo Hall in 1982.