Andy Taubman interview

Interview with Andy Taubman. Andy is a drag king performer, producer, mentor, workshop maker and event manager and community builder and serves as the Director of Youth Services at Youth Pride Rhode Island. Topics in order of discussion include: definition of "drag king", beginning as a performer in Seattle in 2000, Seattle drag and queer scenes in the 2000s, Rhode Island drag scene and starting to produce drag shows, differences between drag kings and drag queens, growing up in Rhode Island and attending a Catholic high school, being labeled a tomboy as a child, decision to attend Evergreen State College in Washington state, change in progressivism and conservatism since growing up, motivation for drag, mentoring and production of drag shows, the development of having a drag house. This interview was created as part of the Queer Stories Project - an oral history project developed by Dr. Virginia Thomas to train LGBTQIA young adults to conduct oral history interviews with LGBTQIA adults in Rhode Island. Management of the project was transferred to PPL in 2021. Queer Stories Project was funded by Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.