Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?
Author: Seligman, Craig
ISBN: 9781541702165
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Publisher,Public Affairs
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Format, Hardcover
Weight, 589.67 g
No. of Pages, 342
In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised and drag queens scared the public; this was also the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952 in Australia) rose to drag queen stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that is more tolerant and accepting of LGBTQ+ people. How did we get from there to here? Craig Seligman looks at Doris's life as a way to provide some answers while recounting this vivid era in LGBTQ+ history, giving needed insight to how drag has become the performance phenomenon we know today--