Miss Shangay Lily
Overview
Miss Shangay Lily is best known for being one of Spain
Spain
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's most popular drag queen
Drag queen
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s. He is also a writer, actor and director.
A radical feminist intellectual, Miss Shangay Lily became a pioneer Queer
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...

 activist and social agitator in Spain's incipient gay rights movement, combining entertainment and politics in a unique Tea Dance
Tea dance
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 that swiftly became the toast of Madrid
Madrid
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's then-blooming gay liberation
Gay Liberation
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 movement. He soon cemented his credentials as a unique LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 activist by creating Spain's first free gay magazine, Shangay Express, a mixture of humor and politics.

He immediately became visible on television with his witty statements and some unprecedented and infamous appearances in A-list events.
Quotations

This pioneer of sexology [Krafft-Ebing] even came to question whether homosexuality might be innate (and people began to forgive us for living, as if it would matter to anyone if being an Atlético de Madrid fan was innate or not.)

Miss Shangay Lily, Mari, ¿me pasas el poppers?

I suppose not many people dress up with insults to go out. We, the homosexuals, have no other choice. Insults are for us almost an epistemological variable: we have learned to know our fellow beings -for, as much as it surprises us, they are our fellow beings- through their insults, and they, on the other hand, have learned to know us in spite of the exhausting job -a hard duty impossed by society- of insulting us.

Miss Shangay Lily, Mari, ¿me pasas el poppers?

Bourgays are the doom of queer revolution.

Miss Shangay Lily in her weblog

 
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