University of Michigan Press eBooks· 2013
Butch Queens Up in Pumps
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Short summary
This ethnography explores Ballroom culture as a queer formation that challenges dominant ideas of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community among inner-city LGBT individuals.
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Key points
- Ballroom culture involves inner-city LGBT individuals competing in drag, dance, and vogue.
- Participants are organized into 'houses' providing support and forming alternative families.
- The culture is examined as a queer formation that challenges dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.
- The research is based on a first-person performance ethnography in Detroit.
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Abstract
Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines 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.
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