Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Posts tagged: gay

On blacks and gays and gals in New Orleans
Big Freedia and Galactic at the Fillmore from Big Freedia on Vimeo. As far back as the ’40s and ’50s, it was a really popular thing. Gay performers have been celebrated forever in New Orleans black culture. Not to mention that in New Orleans there’s the tradition of masking, mummers, carnival, all the weird identity [...] [24 Jul 2010]
Atlanta, GA: I Am My Own Wife
I Am My Own Wife is a one-man play about a gay transvestite — Charlotte von Mahlsdorf — from East Berlin who survives both the Nazi and Communist regimes and creates a museum of everyday objects that served as a haven and meeting place for GLBT East Berliners until the 1990s. Actor Doyle Reynolds does [...] [27 Jan 2007]