E67 - Jasmine Rice LaBeija, the intentional House of LaBeija

Jasmine Rice LaBeija, the Intentional Godmother of the House of LaBeija is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she majored in opera and a Drag Queen. In this conversation she talks with Elizabeth Howard about what it means to perform in drag? Why she is performing in drag and not on the opera stage? And, as drag has become emeshed in American culture, why many lawmakers want to pass legislation to prohibit it?

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