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Drag Queens and Beauty Queens

WGVU News | By Shelley Irwin
Published June 9, 2021 at 9:30 AM EDT

 Drag Queens and Beauty Queens, presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d 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. We talk to author Laurie Greene.
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Shelley Irwin
Shelley Irwin is the host and producer for The Shelley Irwin Show, a news magazine talk-show format on the local NPR affiliate Monday through Friday. The show, broadcast at 9 a.m., features a wide variety of local and national news makers, plus special features.
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