Figure · cross-linked record

Dorian Corey

Performer · Host

PerformerHost2 rooms · 17 connected figures

Biography

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Rooms they shaped

Sally's Hideaway

1986–1997 · Times Square, Manhattan

ClosedBar

Performer, Emceed Thursday and Saturday shows at Sally's II; central figure in Paris Is Burning (1990). Died August 1993. Brian Lantelme photographed her at the venue extensively.

Imperial Lodge of Elks

1924–1997 (as a lodge/ball venue; ballroom use peaking c. 1972–late 1980s) · Central Harlem, Manhattan

TransformedBallroom

Host, Founder of the House of Corey; interviewed in Paris Is Burning; competed at the Elks Lodge.

Connected figures

People who appear in the same rooms, follow the thread.

Pepper LaBeija2 shared

Performer · Host

Amazing Grace1 shared

Performer

Angie Xtravaganza1 shared

Performer

Avis Pendavis1 shared

Host

Crystal LaBeija1 shared

Promoter

David DePino1 shared

Hector 'Xtravaganza' Valle1 shared

Dancer

Jayne County1 shared

Performer

Jennie Livingston1 shared

Performer

Jesse Torres1 shared

Host

Lottie LaBeija1 shared

Promoter

Octavia St. Laurent1 shared

Performer

Paris Dupree1 shared

Performer

Sally Maggio1 shared

Owner

Terre Thaemlitz1 shared

Vertner Woodson Tandy1 shared

Designer

Willi Ninja1 shared

Voguer and dancer, a central figure of ballroom culture