Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Download or read book Butch Queens Up in Pumps written by Marlon M Bailey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.