"It's celebrating and educating about the trailblazers that came before us," says Christ."
"I love RuPaul's Drag Race. I love the Boulet Brothers' Dragula. But those are TV shows with a limited amount of time and focus. And this is kind of spreading the word about drag history and talking about all these performers who paved the way for us to be able to do what we do."
"This year, it'll be 30 years since I first started performing as Peaches Christ," says Christ. "And maybe it's because I've gotten older, but I've really been excited about this role as mentor and sharing the history of queer music, pride anthems and"
Drag predates modern televised competitions and traces origins back to ancient Greece and Shakespearean theater. A San Francisco drag performer with a thirty-year career leads a class-concert called Drag Academy at Stanford Live on January 16 focusing on drag history in popular culture and music. The program celebrates trailblazers, contextualizes TV shows like RuPaul's Drag Race and Dragula as limited-format media, and spotlights performers who paved the way. The performer previously hosted Midnight Mass screenings with notable guests, lectured at art institutes and universities on queer theater and horror, and appeared at university cabarets and drag events. The performer marks three decades of performing and embraces mentorship and sharing queer music and pride anthems.
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