Drag Queens and Beauty Queens

Auteur

LAURIE GREENE is an associate professor of anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she has taught since 1986. She is the founder and chair of the LGBTQ Youth Safe Space Initiative at Stockton University and an advocate for the local LGBTQ community.

Texte du rabat

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.

Résumé
Presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss'd America pageant and the gay neighbourhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s. The book examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul's Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream.

Contenu

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Doing AC
Chapter 1: Pageants and Pageantry
Chapter 2: Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice
Chapter 3: New York Avenue: Where the Party Began
Chapter 4: Camp and The Queering of Miss America
Chapter 5: Show Us your Shoes, Not your Midriffs
Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Appendix I: Winners of the Miss'd America Pageant
Appendix II: Drag Queens Interviewed in Fieldnotes With Dates
Appendix III: Original Miss'd America Theme Song
Bibliography
Index