Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston

Sexuality is viewed through a social lense and is judged based on behaviours, aesthetics and assumptions. In this sense, sexuality is performative, meaning that gendered actions and mannerisms reflect an internal identity only because they are...

In present-day society, cultural assumptions often dictate that sexuality and gender are mutually dependent categories and that one posits the other. Societal norms imply that gender is divided into men and women, and that appropriate sexual...

Paris is Burning, a documentary by Jennie Livingston, focuses on the lives of New York City drag queens by providing insight into their unique culture by the use of an untraditional aspect of a documentary- she breaks the fourth wall. Livingston...