![]() In an interview with the Georgia Voice in 2014, White suggested that an early meeting with Cassandra Peterson had an impact on Peterson’s choice of costume.Īt that point White was wearing a black wig, before she switched to red curls. “During the course of that song she pulled every single hair out of her head,” said Brown. Then, while lip-syncing to Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” she tore hanks of her hair out, dropping them to the stage. She had cut up a wig and glued pieces of it to her shaved head. Lily was wearing a bloodstained wedding dress, performing songs like ‘Drop Dead’.”Īt Atlanta’s famed dance club, the Limelight, White won a “most outrageous” contest with an act that brought the house down, according to drag artist and emcee Charlie Brown. ![]() A lot of performers were doing this pure imitation of women, reconstituting their image and trying to pass as women. “Drag was this performance in honor of this feminine image,” said Padgett, “and she wanted to dirty that up. In a way, White was taking a subversive art form and subverting it further. “She was rock and roll when everyone else was disco,” said Jones. ![]() ![]() While the other drag stars were lip-syncing to Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand, Lily was channeling Joan Jett, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cyndi Lauper. ![]()
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