Dorian Corey and Paris Is Burning

Dorian Corey was a drag queen in New York City. She passed away from AIDS related complications at 56 years old. In the days leading up to her death, Dorian tells her close friend and caretaker Lois Taylor, who's also a drag queen, that she can keep any of Dorian's old costumes that she wants to keep then sell them for money. Two months after Dorian's death, Lois brings some people,. some potential customers up to Dorian's fourth floor apartment at West 104 Street. So as they're looking through this back room where Dorian kept all of her, imagine a room full of drag costumes that she'd been wearing since the six. And like so