DORIAN COREY TO THE RESCUE!

I'M NOT SURE IF I MAKE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DECEASED PARIS IS BURNING STAR AND THE BP SPILL, BUT IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO READ ABOUT HER.

Why Drag Queens Should Handle Disaster Relief

Why aren't more drag queens handling disaster relief? Simon Doonan on the late, great Dorian Corey, the sassy Harlem transvestite who would have fixed the oil spill by now.

by Simon Doonan The Daily Beast



Watching all these bumbling straight white dudes try to plug the Gulf oil spill, I cannot help thinking that the time has come to try something radical. Why not enlist the help of somebody with a totally outsider viewpoint? Why not go for the polar opposite of a turgid straight white guy? How about a fabulous black drag queen? I'm deadly serious.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Jenny Livingston's Harlem drag queen homage, Paris is Burning, the seminal documentary which infused our lives with Vogue-ing, fierce-ness, realness, throwing shade and triple snapping thereby introducing the world, Madonna included, to one of the freakiest, richest subcultures on Earth, the Harlem Vogue-ing Balls. This is also the movie which introduced us all to the wise-est, dead-est, cool-est black drag-queen on the planet: Dorian Corey.




http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-04/simon-doonan-on-gulf-oil-spill-and-paris-is-burning/