Butch Queens Up in Pumps
Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre, History & Criticism
| Author: | Marlon M Bailey | ISBN: | 9780472029372 |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan Press | Publication: | August 30, 2013 |
| Imprint: | University of Michigan Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Marlon M Bailey |
| ISBN: | 9780472029372 |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan Press |
| Publication: | August 30, 2013 |
| Imprint: | University of Michigan Press |
| Language: | English |
Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines 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.
Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines 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.
