Join author Craig Seligman, in conversation with Liz Brown, for the launch of his recently released book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? (Public Affairs Books, 2023), which explores the exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Doris Fish.
 
To request an accommodation for this event, please contact Richard Morales at rmorales@gaycenter.org or 646.502.6370 by March 3, 2023.
 
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will be on hand to sell copies of Craig Seligman’s Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? (Public Affairs, 2023, hardcover, $29). We encourage attendees to reserve a copy of the book to ensure that we have plenty of copies for all.

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ABOUT WHO DOES THAT BITCH THINK SHE IS?
In the 1970s, gay men and lesbian women were openly despised, and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV, but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers.
 
Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history—from Stonewall to AIDS—providing insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between humor and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multihued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Craig Seligman has written for and edited a host of magazines, journals, newspapers, and websites. He is the author of “Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me” (Counterpoint LLC, 2004). Craig resides in Brooklyn.
 
ABOUT LIZ BROWN
Liz Brown is the author of “Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire.” Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, Slate, and elsewhere.