The History of Drag (Part One) | Town Hall: A Black Queer Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- On the first half of a very special two-part episode of @BlackQueerTownHall, in honor of Pride Month, Bob the Drag Queen and @MissPeppermint247 dive deep into the great, glittering, glamorous history of drag, with a special focus on the black queer icons who paved the way. Writer, Director, and Actor of “The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen”, Les Kurkendaal-Barrett, shares the powerful story of William Dorsey Swann, a trailblazer in the world of drag. Bob and Peppermint discuss New York City’s racist drag pageant system which led icon Crystal LaBeija to create “The Royal House of Labeija” where black and brown queens could showcase their talent. They also discuss The Lady Chablis' legacy and Marsha P. Johnson's fearless activism. You won't want to miss a single second of this special episode!
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Now that I look back at Jaida Essence Hall playing The Lady Chablis for The Snatch Game, she BODIED the character. Literally the same people.
Saw Lady Chablis when i lived in GA, absolutely Amazing!❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Yes thank you
Thank you I learned so much! :)
What a great book report, thank you. I've actually learned a few things!
You guys should definitely get the narration portion animated‼️
or just have some images or clips
excited to watch this!
hiii happy pride!!!
This is so interesting!!!
C'mon , Peppermint! Looking particularly beautiful. As usual. 😊❤
Swan's courage coined "Werk"
I remember meeting the LEGEND The Lady Chablis and she was of course gorgeous and also totally unhinged with Bunny, Candis Cayne, sweet pussy Pauline etc. No one can compare to anyone else. No one can do better, BUT they can do THEM. Can I get an amen
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Weird I don’t see any twerking kids. Makes you wonder what they would have thought about that.
Give it a rest
@@Mikey-jv5fv Never, especially since you didn’t deny anything 😎
My black history also includes this! I'm not an LGBTQ+, I identify as she her and cis but I enjoy learning about history of black people, black queens, black queers, black women. Black LGBTQ+!!!
we need more people like you! ❤
@@xamiereditz 💖💖
Happy Pride! Tysm for this episode ❤🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
So honored to have met the lovely queer icon, Lady Chablis! ❤ Happy PRIDE! JOY! LOVE! 🎉
Please do more episodes on drag. Maybe drag kings, too .
35:27 ALRIGHT we won't forget!!
bob really doubled down on this one.
this is such an important topic for pride month and other times too, being queer. thanks for the gathered info!
I just watched Paris is burning and it auto played into this AND I’m too emotional to watch this rn but once I’m okay and I revived from this, you already know this is the next thing I’m gonna watch lol. Queens talking about the essence of queer royalty after watching a doc about the beginning of the queer movement TO the royalty slayness divaness that y’all exude. Groundbreaking really
Teach the children about our origins! I didn't know how much I missed Chablis's face until y'all rolled that footage. ❤❤❤
I lived in the 80s in Atlanta. I would visit Savanah a lot. Whenever I did, I saw the Lady perform. She was very talented and sweet to talk to. Rest in peace, sweetheart. ❤❤
Ms Crystal gathered them all. Imagine dealing with Pepper Labeija as a teenager? Crystal said,"hold on, baby, I got this"
Happy Pride 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈!! I appreciate y’all and everyone involved for giving us the words and knowledge to keep these conversations going ❤
Jaida as THE Lady Chablis just makes sense😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hey y'all. Hi dolls 😊
Peppermint always looks angelic
Thank you legends for teaching us children. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you for sharing this. Happy Pride Month! Sending yall so much love.
I loved this episode, you did a great job with your narration and it was always interesting, you should must def keep up the good work.
Will be here to listen to more episodes and I truly hope to listen to more trans and cis women stories too!
Ms Crystal suplexed those judges. It's so good and I love it. ❤❤❤
Thank you :)
Thank you for the episode! I didn’t know all this! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
i was lucky enough to have The Lady Chablis home bar Club One as my fav gay bar in college down in Savannah GA. I always knew I was missing out on the best years of the club every time i passed the beautiful mural of The Lady Chablis. I love that place, gay bars are so important
Thanks for producing this important documentary that helps educate the community about queer history.
i love this, it moved me to tears so i'm so grateful, happy pride ppl!
Saw part two uploaded and ran over to watch this first idk why it didn't show up on my feed. I love and appreciate y'all so much thank you for all the knowledge ❤
Thank you for keeping us educated. ❤❤❤❤❤
Google him Gregg Gibson who on extreme cocaine back in Daytona beach, Mr Gibson was slapped by the lady shablis and to not touch the doll. Does Greg still do dog drugs in greater Henderson Kentucky. He as I’ve heard is trying to own something. He don’t even own a trailer. Please pray for Greg!
From what I understand William Dorsey Swan did play a role in the creation of the term. Drag likely came from Shakespeare and referred to how the dresses would drag on the stage. It was a term used back then. But WDS called himself the queen of drag, thus creating the term drag queen.
Thank you all so much for putting this together, this history must never be forgotten amazing job and effort put into this !
Super informative! Loved this one!
11:55 this reminds me of convergent evolution, where two things are created independently from each other but are the same design (like wings for insects versus wings for birds)
It makes me mad that we have enough issues to overcome just to unify. Big business/country can never have that if they want influence
Honestly can’t wait for the next chapter!
All incredible stories thank you all 🤩
Omg we got the same birthday April 26 19-
BTW a reminder that the cabaret laws were all put into place to stop interracial dancing. In turn they could use that law for much more than the written use
It makes me so happy to see queer history being told! We are the only ones that ever can and ever will tell our stories so it makes me very proud to have this history!
Thank you so much for this ! Happy pride 😍😍
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ITS SO IMPORTANT FOR THE WORLD!!! Happy pride! Love y’all so much 😊🌈🩷🩵🤍🤎🖤
Very informative!! Keep up the great content!
important
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Would love to see this documentary!
Happy Pride Month!!!Bob The Drag Queen and Peppermint 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Absolutely ❤ the education of today's lgbtqia+ community on the history of pride and the pivotal role of black, queer, marginalized individuals in the fight for equality.
This is such a cool series
Happy pride everyone! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
literally had goosebumps while listening to this, thank you for educating us children and the coming generation of queers❤ we need more queer history documented like this
It’s fantastic that your showing us queer history, there are many efforts to hide this. I hope that you include all types of “drag” including drag kings in the future.
Thank you for this. Very interesting and important to share. Part 2 is fascinating too.
2:18
I regret so much that i missed seeing Lady Chablis in the 90s in Savannah. I was there for a drama teacher training but was too nervous to go alone to the club, and the other teacher from my school was too conservative to go with me. Hate that i missed her.
Thank you so much for taking time to share our history and educate the children!
Someone needs to help these real historical characters get portrayed in television and movies.
Thank you so much for doing this podcast. I'm ashamed of how little of this I knew
Happy Pride! Thank you for this!
Don't forget Ms Silvia! ❤❤❤
this is so important now! thank you
This was so awesome!!! Thank you!!!
thank u for this ! ❤
Great job
Yes!!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
I did not realize until she mentioned it that THE Lady Chablis was not a woman!! She was so beautiful
thank you so much for educating us, happy pride much love.
Yas!
❤❤❤❤Thanks for this, ladies!
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