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- GiGi Holliday Interview, October 17, 2019
- Date
- October 17, 2019
- Creator
- GiGi Holliday; Kai Walther
- Description
- GiGi Holliday in this interview discusses her introduction to and involvement in the field of burlesque, primarily in DC. She explains different kinds of burlesque, especially the contrast between Black and white performers and shows. While acknowledging racism she’s faced as a performer, Holliday focuses more on the community she’s found among other performers of color and how burlesque serves as an avenue of activism for her.
- Subject
- Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Chocolate City Lounge; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Activism; Nerdlesque; La Boum Boum Brunch; Blackness; Racism; Identity; Brown Girls Burlesque; Burlycon; Neo-burlesque; Drag queens
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- DC Burlesque Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2216
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- mixed material
- Title
- Lexie Starre Interview, November 12, 2019
- Date
- November 12, 2019
- Creator
- Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
- Description
- In this interview Lexie Starre discusses how she started performing burlesque and became a member and then producer of the DC Gurly Show, a DC burlesque troupe. She talks about the troupe’s focus on queer performers and community building, as well as providing instruction for new performers.
- Subject
- DC Gurly Show; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Queer Burlesque; Phase 1; The Pinch; Neo-burlesque; Pretty Boi Drag; Smut Slam; Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Howard University
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- DC Burlesque Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2222
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- mixed material
- Title
- Lexie Starre Interview, November 22, 2019
- Date
- November 12, 2019
- Creator
- Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
- Description
- In this interview Lexie Starre talks in-depth about the DC Gurly Show’s different productions, educational program, and its values of community and centering queerness. She also discusses realizing her queerness through the process of meeting her now-wife and then coming out. Finally, Starre describes various venues at which DC Gurly Show has held shows and a few of her own burlesque performances.
- Subject
- DC Gurly Show; Burlesque; Washington, DC; Bier Baron Tavern; Mentorship; Community; Coming out; Queerness; DC Kings; Phase 1; The Pinch; Best of Gay DC; Capital Pride; America’s Got Talent; Capital Fringe
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- DC Burlesque Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2223
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- mixed material