Untucking The Past

Dr. Lady J

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Disspelling myths and uncovering the tremendous and always overlooked contributions drag queens have made to art, pop culture, fashion, gender theory, and more. Plus we'll be looking at all kinds of local drag histories with stories you won't believe of the vastly different drag worlds of the last 100+ years.

EPISODE 3

Episode 2: Battling Bigotry with Balls

Crystal LaBeija and the ballroom scene have both come back into the spotlight recently. On Drag Race Aja paid tribute to Crystal in Snatch Game but it felt a lot like people didn’t really understand the depth of who she was and what her role in herstory would come to be after many of those famous lines were uttered in the 1968 documentary The Queen. POSE has also done an outstanding job of telling the story of the late 80s/ early 90s ballroom scene, highlighting the AIDS crisis, the issues faced by trans women of color, and the shifts in ball culture that occurred as voguing became a mainstream inspiration, as well as generally getting everything so much more right than Paris is Burning ever did. In today’s episodes we go back to the founding of this scene to talk about how Crystal’s outrage helped bring about the ballroom scene and what this all had to do with racism inside the drag community at the time.

34 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 3: The Rise of Alternative Drag... 50 Years Ago

With the success of Dragula, a lot of new followers have developed for the world of alternative drag. But alternative drag already pierced the mainstream decades before. In today’s episode we take a look at the 1960s and 70s at how the counterculture changed drag forever and introduced some of its wildest monsters and most outrageous and successful artists who used drag. Music, theater, film, photography, and even mime influenced and were influenced by drag at this time and these uses aaltered the way drag functioned forever. So come along as we look at everything from The Cockettes’ commune life and bearded drag queens, Sylvester’s takeover of the music world, and so much more!

1h 21m

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Disspelling myths and uncovering the tremendous and always overlooked contributions drag queens have made to art, pop culture, fashion, gender theory, and more. Plus we'll be looking at all kinds of local drag histories with stories you won't believe of the vastly different drag worlds of the last 100+ years.

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Dr. Lady J
Episodes

4
Seasons

1
Rating

Clean
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Untucking The Past

Untucking The Past

Episode 2: Battling Bigotry with Balls

Episode 3: The Rise of Alternative Drag... 50 Years Ago

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