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Nancy

Dress of Choice

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Nancy is back! And we're diving into the taffeta-covered world of kids who do drag.

Desmond is Amazing is a 12-year-old drag kid, LGBTQ advocate, and founder of their own drag house: the Haus of Amazing.

Ophelia Peaches is a 15-year-old drag kid, LGBTQ advocate, and emcee.

Jessica L'Whor is a Denver-based drag queen.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, Albert Behar, Alexander Overington, Anamorphic Orchestra ("Creature Comforts"), Broke for Free ("Calm the Fuck Down"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tobs.

0:02.0

Cast.

0:03.0

What, what are we doing here?

0:05.0

Where are we starting from?

0:06.0

What's happening?

0:07.0

Uh, okay, so we are starting in a rental car.

0:11.0

Okay, hello, testing 1, 2, 3.

0:13.0

We're recording cool.

0:15.0

This is from a couple months ago when I took a trip out to Denver, Colorado.

0:19.0

It just got to say it is so gross and Denver today.

0:22.0

It's about six at night and it is snowing that kind of slush that's like the worst part of snow

0:28.0

and the worst part of rain combined.

0:31.0

Uh, I've just parked my car on the side of the road.

0:34.0

I'm in the middle of sort of an industrial area sitting outside of mile high comics.

0:40.0

It's basically this huge comic book warehouse on the outskirts of town.

0:45.0

And I'm here because of a special event that's happening at the store.

0:48.0

An event that's gotten a lot of attention.

0:51.0

There's a line of people with rainbow parasols in front of mile high comics.

0:58.0

Sort of in a parking lot and across the street from them, even in this slushy ass now,

1:03.0

are protesters.

1:06.0

One sign says, why are you exposing this to children?

1:12.0

Here we go.

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