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Queerguru reviews ‘I’m Your Venus’ the story of the life and legacy of VENUS XTRAVAGENZA

queerguruJune 6, 2024queertiques2024, documentary, Im Your Venus, Kimberly Reed, Paris Is Burning, Tribeca, Venus Xtravaganza1 Comment

In setting out to document the re-opening the investigation of the unsolved brutal murder of Venus Xtravaganza, filmmaker Kimberly Reed uncovers a side of this story that we would never have expected. Venus was one of the stars of the legendary 1990 documentary PARIS IS BURNING about drag queens in the ballroom scene … Continue reading

It’s Official : We Can Throw Shade

queerguruFebruary 11, 2017queermatter2017, culture, drag, gay slang, Paris Is Burning

It’s official. Throwing ‘shade’ has now been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with another 1000 ‘new’ words last week. For those of you who have been careless bandying shade around recklessly recently and don’t know your queer history, then we should tell you it was first largely introduced into the LGBTQ lexicon by Dorian Corey … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews ‘I’m Your Venus’ the story of the life and legacy of VENUS XTRAVAGENZA

It’s Official : We Can Throw Shade

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