Paris is burning, produced and directed by Jennie Livingston : the gala San Francisco benefit premiere for National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, Lavender Youth Recration and Information Center (LYRIC).
Program for San Francisco gala screening of Paris is Burning, four days before the commercial release, featured performances from several of the film's stars, including Willi Ninja. The film documents drag balls of the mid 1980s and the associated queer cultures in New York City at a moment whe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco?] :
[publisher not identified],
[1991?]
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| Summary: | Program for San Francisco gala screening of Paris is Burning, four days before the commercial release, featured performances from several of the film's stars, including Willi Ninja. The film documents drag balls of the mid 1980s and the associated queer cultures in New York City at a moment when those cultures were being decimated by the AIDS epidemic and gentrification. Photographic image of Ninja and Dorian Corey on cover. |
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| Item Description: | Caption title. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 1 folded sheet (4 panels) ; 22 cm |