This panel discussion will center on the intersection of Queerness and Art and how its impact is far reaching. Artists have led the creative charge for LGBTQ Rights over the years through their shaping of social views, sexual and gender norms and more. “COLORFUL: A Queer Arts Panel” is a panel discussion featuring a variety of artists from spoken word to performance art. COLORFUL: A Queer Arts Panel hosted by Metropolitan Studios
Metropolitan Studios, home of the Atlanta School of Burlesque and the award-winning burlesque troupe The Candybox Revue, will host “A Big Queer Cabaret!” featuring local and regional burlesque, drag, and visual artists. Gay History for Straight People by Will NolanĪtlanta Fringe Festival veteran artist and Atlanta native Will Nolan will perform “Gay History for Straight People,” where his alter ego Leola, a Kelly Clarkson-obsessed, redneck senior-citizen lesbian, breaks down “the wonderful world of gayness taking audiences on a guided tour through the alphabet from Anal Beads to Unicorns.” Winner of the 2020 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award for Best Spoken Word, a 2019 review said of Gay History: “when weren’t laughing and spit taking into cosmos were cheering and applauding.”Ī Big Queer Cabaret! by Metropolitan Studios
