Drag Queens and Beauty Queens by Laurie Greene - 9781978813861

Drag Queens and Beauty QueensContesting Femininity in the World's Playground\nAuthor(s): Laurie Greene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978813861, 978-1978813861\nSynopsis\nThe Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Missd America drag pageant.\nDrag Queens and Beauty Queenspresents a vivid ethnography of the Missd America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now thatRupauls Drag Racehas brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Missd America pageant.