Interview with Katarina Eclipse

Interview with Katarina Eclipse

Autobiography

Coming out (Sexual orientation)

Drag community

Drag families

Drag shows

Gay men -- Family relationships

Gay men -- Social conditions

Gender identity

Performances (creative events)

Transgender women

Kat Gray, stage name Katarina Eclipse, is interviewed by Sarah Steiner as a part of the Gender and Sexuality Oral History project. Eclipse is a transgender drag queen. She relates the experience she had coming out in high school which resulted being put in a psych ward at the insistence of extended family. She talks about her first time performing, performing in general, her drag family, her transition to female, and the role she plays as a listener and guide in helping others navigate the world of drag. Eclipse performs mainly at Scandals, but also regularly at XYZ in Knoxville. She has performed at The Paper Mill Lounge and Theatre in Sylva and LEAF Festival in Black Mountain. She is an advocate for accepting all types of drag performers, allowing drag to be an exaggerated form of yourself, whoever that may be.

Eclipse, Katarina

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-06-13

Steiner, Sarah

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Text

Sound

35971

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35971

2018-10-04

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:09:21 (sound recordings)(duration)

12 pages (transcript)(duration)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County