The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District invites you to...The 2nd Annual Teen Drag Competition (pizzagate)

submitted 5.6 years ago by shewhomustbeobeyed

This poster was found in the library in Las Vegas:

https://files.catbox.moe/fj7grc.JPG

Posted prominently on the wall in the teen section.

https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/events/5d267305372d954400e8fe37 - https://archive.fo/wQNIc

We are looking forward to crowning Las Vegas' best teen drag king or queen as part of our second annual Family Pride Day! Put together your best ensemble and strut your stuff for our celebrity judges for a chance to win tickets to Christina Aguilera!

Space in the competition is limited; registration is required by Saturday, September 21st. Please call or email Anna at 702.507.6019 or [email protected] to register.

Registrants must have parents permission to participate. Each performer will be asked to do a lip sync performance between 3-5 minutes in length. Please have song selection ready when you sign up.

Performance free and open to the public.

This is an event held during the 2nd annual Family Pride Day. Along with the ever popular Drag Queen Storytime hosted by Carla Rossi

https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/events/5d45dda50bcb674400173aa6 - https://archive.is/l2vFt

The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District invites you to our second annual Family Pride Day! Celebrate LGBTQ+ families and families of every type during this day-long event. There will be activities, community resources, speakers and events for all ages including Drag Queen Storytime hosted by Carla Rossi and a Teen Drag Competition. Comedian Guy Branum will be closing the celebration with a special evening performance.

Food trucks will be on-site to purchase snacks!

Free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 702.507.3400.

Haven't found anything on who the celebrity judges are supposed to be, yet.

The Drag Queen

https://www.thecarlarossi.com/2018/2/7/gfrdo812ba63ypiojjhrvzdqr2b7xu - no archive

From his site:

WHY CARLA ROSSI?

My performance work confronts white supremacy, complacency, and the confusion of "mixed" identities - of living in-between, particularly sexually and racially. I'm interested in the edge - that line between satire and sincerity, between critique and reification - as a site where transgression and transformation occur. That's why I'm drawn to drag as artwork. Drag often reinforces heterosexist projections of what makes a "woman," but - as theorist Judith Butler argues - it can also expose the cracks in binary sexism by blurring (or queering) gender. Queer drag exposes gender as a performed historical construction - a set of appropriated cues, images, or gestures that culturally signify masculine and feminine - rather than as a biological reality.

The character I play, Carla Rossi, started as an art project in 2010 and has since turned into a full-fledged persona, body of work, and occupation. I prefer the term "drag clown" over "drag queen" because I'm not trying to emulate women. I'm more interested in Coyote-style trickery similar to the clown’s objective - a clown says one thing while doing the opposite. In that same way I use Carla as a tool for critique. When I perform as her I wear whiteface in direct allusion to whiteness, clowning,

Carla Rossi aka Anthony Hudson

https://www.straight.com/arts/1202986/talking-stick-fest-anthony-hudsons-looking-tiger-lily-defies-urge-label - https://web.archive.org/web/20190324000329/https://www.straight.com/arts/1202986/talking-stick-fest-anthony-hudsons-looking-tiger-lily-defies-urge-label - https://archive.fo/ELBLi

When Looking for Tiger Lily comes to the Talking Stick Festival, audiences will meet Carla Rossi, a drag clown in whiteface and a fright wig. But don’t be afraid: she’s a trickster, a storyteller, and the living, outsized embodiment of all the cultural collisions and identity crises two-spirit interdisciplinary artist Anthony Hudson has experienced. Carla is part coyote figure, part PowerPoint-wielding speaker, and much more.