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Dorian Corey (June 6, 1937 – August 29, 1993) was an American drag performer and fashion designer. She appeared in Wigstock and was featured in Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.
Oct 14, 2022 · Dorian Corey was believed to have kept the remains of an unidentified man in her apartment for more than 25 years, only to be discovered after she died from AIDS.
Nov 10, 2016 · In October of 1993, Lois Taylor entered the Harlem apartment of Dorian Corey, a drag performer and dressmaker who’d died of AIDS two months earlier at the age of 56.
Aug 31, 1993 · Dorian Corey, a star of the documentary "Paris Is Burning," the award-winning film about female impersonators, died on Sunday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in...
Sep 13, 2021 · Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story will keep you engrossed and amused right up to the surprise ending, when the elusive mystery is finally solved and the case is truly closed. Running Time: Approximately two hours and 30 minutes, including a fifteen-minute intermission.
Aug 25, 2021 · Dorian Corey (ca. 1937-93) was a legend on the New York drag circuit of the 1970s-80s, as founder of both the clothing label Corey Design and the voguing House of Corey, which won more than 50 grand prizes in the Vogue Balls of the era.
Oct 15, 2020 · Career. In the 1960s, Dorian toured as a snake dancer in the Pearl Box Revue, a cabaret drag act. She was one of four performers who appeared on the 1972 Pearl Box Revue LP Call Me MISSter. Corey was also the founder of the voguing House of Corey.
Jun 18, 2019 · “In real life,” says Dorian Corey, star of Jennie Livingston’s touchstone 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning, “you can’t get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and...
Dorian Corey was born on 6 June 1937 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is known for Paris Is Burning (1990), The Queen (1968) and TV Transvestite (1982). She died on 29 August 1993 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
Dorian Corey stood out... She was the breakout star of the 1990 documentary, Paris is Burning. A film about the little-known world of gay ballroom competitions.
