Burlesque, boylesque, strip shows, peep shows, girlie shows, carnies, caricatures, farces, lampoons, gags, gimmicks, goofs, mockeries, shams, shams of mocekeries, travesties, parodies, pastiche, revues, satires, send-ups, skin shows, spoofs, stripping, taking it off, hams, characters, bump-and-grind, burlesque queens, ecdysiasts, exotic dancers, peelers, striptease artistes, striptease dancers, stripteuse, strippahs, shimmy-shakers, rump quakers, cooch dancers, hoochie coochies, the hoochy-koo, chicks, babes, broads, dames, dishes, skirts, bombshells, divas, starlets, harlots, tarts, wenches, femme fatales, bad girls, sweetpeas, vixens, vagabonds, showbos, g-strings, tear-away clothes, velcro, snaps, hooks, big ol' zippers, glamour, sex appeal, self-satisfaction, fishnets, feathers, post-pasties feminism, multitasking, marabou, ostrich feathers, fringe, eyelash glue, glue guns, bedazzlers, false eyelashes, spangles, sequins, glitter, rhinestones, not dieting, camp, kitsch, hoopla, schtick...
I'd like to meet:
Peelers, strippers, striptease artistes, striptease dancers, stripteuses, ecdysiasts, exhibitionists, exotic dancers, bump-and-grinders, shimmy-shakers, rump quakers, cooch dancers, hoochie coochies, sensationalists, queens, divas, hams, goofs, characters, wisecrackers, wiseacres, smartypantses, and fellow divas and devotees of classic, classy burly-Q.
Music:
Anything you can shake it to, baby...
Movies:
Lady Of Burlesque, Gypsy, The Night They Raided Minskys, The Great Ziegfield, Easter Parade, Best Of Burlesque, Varietease, Teasearama, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Valley Of The Dolls, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, I Married A Savage, Let's Do It, Lenny, Bell, Bare And Beautiful, The Lullaby Of Bareland, Nudie-Cutie: Volumes 21, 26, 34, 38, 60, 68, 78; Grindhouse Follies: Volume 23, Big Bust Loops: Volumes 6, 7, And 21, Irma La Douche, Up!, Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens, A Date With Death, The Thrill Killers, Blackenstein, Desperate Living, Corpse Grinders, Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Belle Of The Nineties, Goin' To Town, Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man, My Little Chickadee, The Love Goddesses, Myra Breckinridge, My Tale Is Hot, Deadly Weapons, Double Agent 73, Zou-Zou, Princess Tam-Tam, Street Of 1000 Pleasures, For Love & Money, Hollywood Burlesque, International Burlesque, Striptease Girl, Vegas Nights, A Night At The Follies, Kiss Me Bab ...
Books:
Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind, Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture , The New Burlesque, The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque From the '40s and '50s, The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs of the 1940s and 1950s, Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight, Striptease: The Untold History Of The Girlie Show, Gypsy: A Memoir, My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee, Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind, Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America, Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Sexy, Foxy Forever: How to Be Foxy at Fifty, Sexy at Sixty, and Fabulous Forever, ...And Men My Fuel, My Face for the World To See, My First 2000 Men, Honey, Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs, Lysistrata, The Best Burlesque Sketches, MINSKY'S BURLESQUE, A Bit of Burlesque, Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris, Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall, Only a Paper Moon: The Theatre of Billy Rose, THE BODY MERCHANT: The Story of Earl Carroll, The S Factor: Strip Workouts for Every Woman, Eve's Striptease, Naked Is the Best Disguise: My Life As a Stripper, Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire, Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese, G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, Ivy League Stripper, Striptease Chicago, Full Monty Handbook: How to Undress for Success, The Lusty Lady: Fotografien und Texte, Norma Jean: My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe, A Pictorial History of Striptease, GUILTY PLEASURES: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna, Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars, The American Burlesque Show, Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days, This Was Burlesque, Vaudeville from the Honky Tonks to the Palace, A Pictorial History of Burlesque, From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film, The Cotton Club: A Pictorial and Social History of the Most Famous Symbol of the Jazz Era, Les Folies Du Music Hall: A History of the Music Hall in Paris, British Music Hall: A Story in Pictures, Looking for Little Egypt, Loie Fuller: Goddess of Light, Mistinguette: La Reine Du Music-Hall, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism, An Evening at The Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret, Oscar Wilde's Salome, The Ziegfeld Touch: The Life and Times of Florenz Ziegfeld, Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque, Lapdancer, Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History), Dance Naked: A Stripper's Guide to Life, Carnival Strippers,...
Heroes:
Toni Alessandrini,
Nejla Ates,
Rita Atlanta,
Ann 'Bang Bang' Arbor,
Josephine Baker,
Charletta Bates,
Candy Barr,
Virginia Bell,
Gina Bon-Bon,
Fanny Brice,
Linda Brigitte,
Sherry Britton,
Camille 2000,
Carmela The Torrid Twister,
Jeanne Carmen,
Nita Charda,
Ann Corio,
Ricci Cortez,
Sunny Dare,
Yvette Dare,
Bubbles Darlene,
Lois De Fee,
Elaine Deming,
Hope Diamond,
Linda Doll,
Princess Do May,
Gil Elvgren,
Evangeline The Oyster Girl,
Dixie Evans,
Loie Fuller,
Winnie Garrett,
Gilda & her Crowning Glory,
Rita Grable,
Lotti The Body Graves,
Margie Hart,
Anna Held,
Betty Howard,
Irma The Body,
Bambi Lane,
Gypsy Rose Lee,
Irish McCalla,
Libby Jones,
Lili La Mont,
Jennie Lee,
Little Egypt,
Lili Marlyne,
Brandy Martin,
Mata Hari,
Jackie Miller,
Dee Milo,
Mitzi,
Chesty Morgan,
Zoe Mozert,
Kitten Natividad,
Lynn O'Neil,
Bettie Page,
Penny Page,
Patti Paget,
Ann Perri,
Pepper Powell,
Eartha Quake,
Sheila Rae,
Sally Rand,
Rita Ravell, Betty
Liz Renay,
Jessica Rogers,
Rowland,
Rose La Rose,
Rosita Royce,
Busty Russell,
Sheila Ryan,
Sally The Shape,
Salome,
San San,
Tura Satana,
Satan's Angel,
La Savona,
Sequin,
Sheila The Peeler,
Texas Sheridan,
Mitzi Sinclaire,
La Sirena,
Georgia Sothern,
Blaze Starr,
Patti Starr,
Lili St Cyr,
Tempest Storm,
Lydia Thompson,
Tanayo,
Tempestua,
Tirza,
Sonia Tokyo,
Trudine,
Sophie Tucker,
Val De Val,
Val Valentine,
Alberto Vargas,
Patty Waggin,
Hinda Wassau,
Evelyn West,
Mae West,
Wild Cherry,
Yvonne Yvette,
Flo Ziegfield,
Zorima,
Zorita,
Jeanne France
Bronya,
Hedy Bey,
Nona Carver,
Blaze Fury,
Flame Fury,
Faith Bacon,
Jennifer Minsk,
Pink Champagne,
Rita Ravell, Kellie Everts, Ricki Covette, TT Red, Tai-Ping, Taffey O’Neill, Doreen Dare, Sue Martin, Olga Palace, Sata-Lyte, Flame O‘Neil, Flash O’Farrel, Tinker Bell, Honey Bee, Lady Godiva, Honey Bruce, Carol Doda, Rusty Lane, Faith Dane, Annie Sprinkle, Leta Paul, Venus Delite, Nita Louise, Georgia Holden, Siri, Vallkyra, Brandy Long, Brandy Martin, Naja Karamaru, Syra, Ecstacy, Vicki Welles, Kina Bare, Tallulah Hanley, Betty Rowland, Petty Varga, Leola Harlow, Beverly Styles, Candy Samples, Bambi Vaughan, Morgana...
