Sentences with phrase «of drag queens»

Warhol's 1975 «Ladies and Gentlemen» series of drag queen portraits will feature, along with Mapplethorpe's 1938 photographic series and book «Lady: Lisa Lyon», which records the female bodybuilding title holder in a number of «gender - bending» costumes.

In real life, the instigators of the riots were a group of drag queens and transgender women of color.

The Pavilion of Earth excels with works like Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj's fabulous fabric moths, or Charles Atlas's fusion of the drag queen Lady Bunny's monologue about the corruption of American politics with a series of neon sunsets that form a mosaic on a vast screen.

Girl Talk is a poetic rumination on the figure of the drag queen and the mother.

A whole series of dressing rooms are on the back side of the «stage,» the most memorable being Wu Tsang's GREEN ROOM, 2012, which transforms his small booth into the back room of a gay bar in L.A., and shows a video of a drag queen performing in front of a live audience.

It was a long shot that the film could possibly be a success — a bunch of drag queens in Australian deserts?

Drag queens must fit the stereotype of drag queens or they simply are not drag queens, and television sitcoms are entirely dependent upon playing off, and against, stereotypes — whether of the inner city, white suburbia, the rural South, or interfering mothers - in - law.

She accepts gay activist Martin Duberman's assessment of drag queens as the heroes of the Stonewall revolution, the 1969 riots in New York City credited with sparking the contemporary gay liberation movement.

Although the celebrations begin with the kid - friendly, Wonderland - inspired Mad Hatter Tea, a mid-month blues and barbecue whiskey dinner and Labor Day weekend of drag queens and diversity round out the seasonal events.

Paterson said he'd been walking in the march since 1976, back when for a politician, the «howl of a drag queen» was the kind of endorsement that could kill a political career.

So again no my favorite dress but I had never heard of drag queen Conchita Wurst before this red carpet.

Ask any one of the drag queens regularly performing in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and there's still more to be done to achieve true equality.

Everyone is dying for that Kim Kardashian definition, but no one wants to overdo it and end up with cheek bones worthy of any drag queen.

Burns devotes the bulk of the film to Warhol's»60s work, giving serious attention to the radical, often underacknowledged silent films he shot with the participation of the drag queens, speed freaks and high - society types who populated the Factory.

The sight of a drag queen atop a pink commuter bus, miles of glittering tinfoil fabric billowing into the desert behind her, was enough to make even the most obstinately tweedy dresser jealous of her boogie.

Speaking in the high - pitched tone of a drag queen Mira Sorvino is hilariously dizzy as the fallen woman Lenny hopes to save.

All the puffy hair and silly costumes are in tangent to the world of drag queens.

The fact that none of the drag queens ever asserts himself as a homosexual helps keep the masquerade unthreatening even for homophobic viewers.

My filmmakers are cutting together the travel video now, but here's a preview of the drag queen show on VideofyMe.

I am interrupting this argument to say your name is one letter off from the stage name of a drag queen I met once.

Like Tillmans, photographer Nan Goldin focused on capturing subcultures in snapshot style, chronicling the travails of drag queens and drug - addled bohemians caught in intimate moments.

While the boxer functions as a spectacle of masculine power, «The Pimp» displays the performative nature of gender expression as he takes on the role of the drag queen Jori < 3.

Here, plenty of drag queens honed their (face) painting and sewing skills in MFA programs, exhibit or work in galleries, and have studio practices that often overlap with their alter egos» nocturnal activities.

In the early 1970s, while living in Boston, Nan Goldin met a group of drag queens.

The result of Longley - Cook's RuPaul Cross-Stitch Animation Workshop (wherein 35 participants made cross-stitched portraits of the drag queen), the show fused the city's drag subculture with a broader community - based agenda.

An exhibition of pen and ink drawings from the artist's early career, these portraits of drag queens and transvestites are beautifully subversive and full of glamorous innuendo.