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SPEAKER_05: Hi everyone. From Wonder Media Network, I'm Anamalika Tubbs, the author of The Three Mothers, How the Mothers of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. My work focuses on motherhood through the lens of feminism, intersectionality, and inclusivity. And I'll be your guest host for this month of Womanika. This month, we're talking about mothers, women who ushered forth new generations and new futures through the years to come. Today, we're talking about one of the matriarchs of the New York drag ballroom scene. She shepherded young queens and popularized terms and concepts that are now part of mainstream popular culture. Please welcome Dorian Corey. Dorian Corey was born in Buffalo, New York, on June 6, 1937. She was assigned male at birth to a young woman who was a woman who was a woman who But she struggled to care for her alone. Dorian had no choice but to develop her maternal instincts. In the 1950s, Dorian moved to Manhattan to study art at Parsons School of Design. Shortly after she graduated, she toured the US with a cabaret drag act called the W-A-R-A, which was a national museum of art. Dorian was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who Dorian took pride and pleasure in making others look beautiful. She used her Parsons degree to become a highly regarded seamstress and costumer. She created fresh, fun, and dramatic looks for drag ball halls as well as for her clothing line, Corey Design. She also invested in her own appearance. She found a doctor who did silicone brush and skin and made a classic dress for her. She did the same thing for the dress and the dress as well as for her clothing line, Corey Design. Dorian was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who was a young woman who had silicone breast injections and went to Yonkers to get the procedure done. More than anything, Dorian was a drag queen. She was a legend at drag balls. Her notable outfits included imitating Marie Antoinette, complete for the guillotine and giant wig, and a 30 by 40 foot feathered cape that could transform into a tent that enveloped the audience. In a face of makeup beat by the gods, Dorian was a spectacle, and she knew it. When she performed, she put on an inspiring and captivating show. Over the course of her life, Dorian won more than 50 grand prizes from voguing balls. She was pivotal in the immortalization of voguing in ballroom culture. Dorian was one of the five reigning ballroom housemothers known as the Terrible Five. This group consisted of Dorian, Pepper Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, and Angie Extravaganza, who was once one of Dorian's children and has been featured on Wamanica in the past. In drag culture, houses are the family that you choose. For many young, black, brown, and queer kids, living as their most authentic selves can be isolating and lonely. So many members of the community form their own families, which are led by house mothers and fathers. These houses are places of guidance, support, and acceptance, and sometimes tough love. House mothers like Dorian take people under their wing and treat them as their own children. Dorian created the house of Cory for her drag family. She mentored and guided many young queens as they discovered themselves and navigated the world of drag. Dorian created a safe space for a lot of people. Her friend Tracy would later tell a reporter, Dorian, she just helped you laugh. Forget your problems. She was everybody's, like, angel. In 1990, Dorian was featured in the culturally iconic documentary, Paris is Burning.
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SPEAKER_05: The film was an exposé of ballroom culture during the height of New York City's drag balls. It followed several famous drag queens and explored questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America during the late 1980s. In the film, Dorian's personality is on full display. She's her witty, wry, unflinching self. Through her performances and sharp one-liners, Dorian defined turns like booging, shade, and reading, also known as the real art form of insult. All of these terms are now popular in queer and mainstream culture. Just a few years after the film's premiere, Dorian Corey died of AIDS-related complications at age 56 on August 29th, 1993. However, Dorian was always larger than life, and just because she wasn't around physically didn't mean the world stopped talking about her. In fact, the world may have talked about her more thanks to the mystery she left behind. Two months after Dorian's death, her friend Lois Taylor was selling her belongings. Lois and a couple of friends were browsing through Dorian's closet for costumes, and among the lavish pieces was a musty green plaid garment bag. It seemed so out of place. So out of curiosity, Lois and her friends decided to open it. If green plaid was a drab and unpleasant sight to a drag queen, what they found inside was even more horrifying. Inside was a partially mummified body. The police later identified the body as a man named Robert Bobby Worley. It's unclear how long the body had been there, but the police said that he must have died at least 20 years prior. Among other mysteries were who killed him and who was Bobby Worley to Dorian Corey? Some rumors say that Dorian left a note on the body that claimed Bobby had tried to rob her and she acted in self-defense. Others say that Bobby and Dorian were lovers and Dorian shot Bobby when things got heated. We may never know the full story, and Dorian was certainly a trove of mysteries. But she also left behind a legacy so much bigger, one of care and mothering to those who needed it most. Dorian's parting words at the end of Paris Is Burning embody how she lived. She said, I always had hopes of being a big star. I always had hopes of being a big star.
SPEAKER_01: Then I look, as you get older, you aim a little lower. And I just say, well, yeah, you still might make an impression. Everybody wants to leave something behind them, some impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think you left a mark on the world if you just get through it. And a few people remember your name. Then you left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues and enjoy it. If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.
SPEAKER_05: All month, we're talking about mothers. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Wamanica Podcast. Special thanks to co-creators Jenny and Liz Kaplan for having me as a guest host. Talk to you tomorrow.
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