Beth Watkins
- Title
- Beth Watkins
- Date(s)
- 04/08/2024
- Interviewee(s)
- Beth Watkins See all items with this value
- Interviewer(s)
- Adam Brinati See all items with this value
- Interviewer Position
- Student
- Summary
- Beth Watkins, manager of exhibition, interpretation, and visitor experience at the Spurlock Museum, discusses several exhibits relating to the Champaign-Urbana LGBTQ+ community. The first exhibit, In Her Closet, focused on drag costuming and highlighted local drag queens. One national queen who provided her outfits was Sasha Velour, a CU local and previous winner of RuPaul's Drag Race. The next exhibit discussed was Sewn in Memory, which displayed AIDS quilt panels from Central Illinois.
- Language
- English
- Subject(s)
- aids activism See all items with this value
- drag See all items with this value
- lgbtq+ See all items with this value
- spurlock museum See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Locating Queer Culture
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