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 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines 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.