Butch queens up in pumps : gender, performance, and ballroom culture in Detroit / Marlon M. Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Marlon M., 1969-

Series:

Triangulations

Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian dance parties--Michigan--Detroit.

Gay and lesbian dance parties.

Female impersonators--Michigan--Detroit.

Female impersonators.

Gay culture--Michigan--Detroit.

Gay culture.

African American gay people--Michigan--Detroit.

African American gay people.

Sexual minorities--Michigan--Detroit.

Sexual minorities.

Michigan--Detroit.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xiv, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Performing Gender, Creating Kinship, Forging Community 1

2 "Ain't Nothing Like a Butch Queen": The Gender System in Ballroom Culture 29

3 From Home to House: Ballroom Houses, Platonic Parents, and Overlapping Kinship 77

4 "It's Gonna Get Severe Up in Here": Ball Events, Ritualized Performance, and Black Queer Space 124

5 "They Want Us Sick": Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472071968

0472071963

9780472051960

0472051962

OCLC:

820123691