We are at once marginal and mainstream, at once assimilated and irreconcilably queer. -Urvashi Vaid, 1995 Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown, We are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation (California & New York: Ten Speed Press). pg 310 What do I write? What should I write? Is there … More From Angel Depree to Parliament House: My Internship Experience
I think for the most part my blog has been rather… scattered in terms of a narrative. To be quite frank, this post will be the same, so perhaps I am following one, a crazy one. Although I’ve tried to discuss many of the socio-political issues we’re facing now, both as a community … More COVID, Oral History, and I: A Historian’s dilemma
Central Florida’s LGBTQ history has remained somewhat of an enigma to many young people who live in the area. Of course, in terms of a national Queer narrative, it would seem other cities like San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, or New York City have held the historical torch of sexual resistance to the United … More Who is Miss P?: New Year’s Eve Celebration at Parliament House, Orlando 1999
The colorful crowd, loud music, the open declaration of love and drag performers; yes, it’s pride. The month of pride has played an important part in both demonstrating the presence of LGBTQ communities in the United States, and the power in collective resistance through innumerable parades that engulf the streets. From the Stonewall riots and … More Who is Miss P? Conversations about the historical significance of local drag and Parliament House at the Footlight Theatre Part 1
If gender attributes and acts, the various ways in which a body shows or produces its cultural signification, are performative, then there is no preexisting identity by which an act or attribute might be measured; there would be no true or false, real or distorted acts of gender… Butler, Judith. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion … More Men in Heels. Yes, you read it right
On June 12th, 2016 at 2:00 am, one of the greatest tragedies occurred in Orlando’s LGBTQ community, marking itself next to the Stonewall riots within Queer history. Actually, it was in late June that the Stonewall riots began as a turning point towards sexual liberation and equality. The fact that on Pride month, a massacre … More Pulse
One thing is clear. It does us no service to reify a colonial moment of binary oppositions so that we can enjoy the postcolonial confidence that our world today is infinitely more complicated, more fragmented and more blurred. Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler, eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: … More Black Lives Matter: Racial issues within the Narrative
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. Michel Foucault, ‘On the genealogy of ethics: An overview of work in progress’. In Paul Rabinow, (ed.), The Foucault Reader. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1984 .p. 350 Art and … More Orlando’s Drag Scene: An art
If we were to ask a random stranger on the intersection of Orange Avenue and East Church Street about the history of Orlando, the probability of someone knowing in-depth information would be slim. Orlando, known as City Beautiful, along with Miami, Tampa and others have maintained such a rich history of its unique … More Florida’s Queer Past: Drag Performers
Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. For formalities, I will provide a brief introduction of myself along with the reason for the blog page and its contents. My name is Alexis and I am a graduate student at the University of Central Florida. Following the traditional history track, my overall research pertains towards an analysis … More Brief Introduction
Stonewall Historian 