Interview with Natasha Nightly

Interview with Natasha Nightly

Autobiography

Ballet dancers

Cisgender people

Coming out (Sexual orientation)

Drag community

Drag families

Drag shows

Gay men -- Family relationships

Gender identity

LGBTQ+ communities

Performances (creative events)

Political activists

Wagner, Lane, 1994- -- Interviews

Wagner, Lane, 1994- -- Photographs

Lane Wagner, stage name Natasha Noir Nightly, is interviewed by Sarah Steiner as a part of the Gender and Sexuality Oral History project. Wagner, who identifies as a pansexual, cisgender male, is a bearded drag queen and part of the drag family House Acrylic. Wagner lives in Asheville and has performed as Nightly at local venues such as O.Henry’s, Ole Shakey’s, The Odditorium, Scandals, The Paper Mill Lounge and Theatre, and UNC-Asheville’s Drag Ball. Nightly was crowned Mx Blue Ridge Pride in 2018. The interview covers House Acrylic, the dynamics of drag families, drag as a form of activism, and thoughts on outlying forms of drag. Nightly uses drag as a platform to advocate for safe spaces, consent, and health education. Off stage, Wagner works with community members such as Tranzmission and the Health and Human Services Department to address these same issues. Wagner dances professionally for the Asheville Ballet. Includes additional photographs of Lane Wagner in and out of drag.

Nightly, Natasha

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

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

2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-04-25

Steiner, Sarah

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interviews

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2018-11-07

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Asheville (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:54:09 (sound recordings)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County