‘Vienners’ at Odom’s

 “‘Vienners at Odom’s: DeAundra Peek and the Atlanta Televisual Drag Scene.” In Queering the South on Screen. Ed. Tison Pugh. U of Georgia P, 2020. 259-82. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820356723/queering-the-south-on-screen/ 

This essay emphasizes the significance of Rosser Shymanski’s drag performances as DeAundra Peek within Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1980s onward and the ways in which these performances, televised on the local cable access channel, celebrated and brought visibility to queerness within the South.