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Craig Seligman's "Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag"

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The Rise and Fall of Drag Race

I can't think as I was reading this biography about how Doris, who died in 1991, would have thought of the kind of rise of something like RuPaul's Drag Race. She always imagined a future for himself in which he could be a glamorous movie star. He encouraged friends to do drag. He saw the popularity of drag blossom in his own era. And though RuPaul surprised everyone and I think would have surprised Doris too.

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