Interview with Scarlet Margo Rita

Interview with Scarlet Margo Rita

Autobiography

Cisgender people

Coming out (Sexual orientation)

Drag community

Drag families

Drag shows

Female impersonators

Gay men -- Family relationships

Gender identity

Performances (creative events)

Western Carolina University -- Students

Drag queen Scarlet Margo Rita (1996-) is interviewed by Sarah Steiner as a part of the Gender and Sexuality Oral History project. Rita is a cisgender, gay male who does comedic drag. Rita came out to some people during high school, but didn’t start to explore the world of drag until college. Rita details her first experience performing in drag on the campus of Western Carolina University. She talks about performing at The Paper Mill Lounge and Theatre in Sylva, the generosity of other drag performers in teaching her makeup and other skills, the process of getting ready for a show, the slow acceptance of her mother, and drag in rural communities. Includes an additional photograph of Margo Scarlet Rita in drag.

Rita, Scarlet Margo

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

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

2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-05-04

Steiner, Sarah

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application/pdf; audio/mp3; image/jpeg;

photographs

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

StillImage

36002

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36002

2018-10-04

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:54:35 (sound recordings)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County