The story of Dorian Corey, who is featured prominently in Paris Is Burning, is an aspirational one, but she was hiding an incredibly dark secret. Beneath the sequins dresses and feather boas in her closet, a decades-long secret lay decomposing.
SOURCES
The Drag Queen and the Mummy; Edward Conlon - Transition, No. 65 (1995), pp. 4-24 (21 pages); Published By: Indiana University Press
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OeQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=drag+queen+and+the+mummy&source=bl&ots=9P9lNELRMV&sig=ExToyAJtmc1naRfg0uv2HqUzj5k&hl=en&ei=KRw-TczzLMeh8QP_j4DbCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false
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