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- Title
- Lexie Starre Interview, November 12, 2019
- Date
- November 12, 2019
- Creator
- Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
- Description
- In this interview Lexie Starre discusses how she started performing burlesque and became a member and then producer of the DC Gurly Show, a DC burlesque troupe. She talks about the troupe’s focus on queer performers and community building, as well as providing instruction for new performers.
- Subject
- DC Gurly Show; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Queer Burlesque; Phase 1; The Pinch; Neo-burlesque; Pretty Boi Drag; Smut Slam; Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Howard University
- Country
- United States
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2222
- Rights statement
- Copyright for this object is held by the DC Public Library and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the DC Public Library.
- Title
- Lexie Starre Interview, November 22, 2019
- Date
- November 12, 2019
- Creator
- Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
- Description
- In this interview Lexie Starre talks in-depth about the DC Gurly Show’s different productions, educational program, and its values of community and centering queerness. She also discusses realizing her queerness through the process of meeting her now-wife and then coming out. Finally, Starre describes various venues at which DC Gurly Show has held shows and a few of her own burlesque performances.
- Subject
- DC Gurly Show; Burlesque; Washington, DC; Bier Baron Tavern; Mentorship; Community; Coming out; Queerness; DC Kings; Phase 1; The Pinch; Best of Gay DC; Capital Pride; America’s Got Talent; Capital Fringe
- Country
- United States
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2223
- Rights statement
- Copyright for this object is held by the DC Public Library and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the DC Public Library.