Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

DRAG-A-DOLL KIT

Date Range From

2017

Date Range To

2019

Materials

PLASTIC, PAPER, SYNTHETIC HAIR

No. Pieces

3

Length

29.5

Width

25.8

Description

A. DOLL, 28CM L X 11CM W. PLASTIC DOLL WITH BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES. BACK HAS BLACK TEXT STAMPED, “201307”. LEFT HAND AND RIGHT ARM STAINED WITH PINK RESIDUE; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION. B. PAMPHLET, 19.5CM L X 14CM W. COVER FEATURES PINK AND PURPLE GEOMETRIC DESIGN WITH IMAGE OF TWO DOLLS INSIDE A WHITE HEART, FIRST DOLL IN THE IMAGE APPEARS NORMAL AND THE SECOND DOLL IN THE IMAGE IS “DRAGGED UP”. WHITE TEXT ON THE FRONT OF PAMPHELT READS, “SOCIAL, WWW.LETHBRIDGEPRIDE.CA, @LETHBRIDGE_PRIDE_FEST_, DRAG-A-DOLL, ELEGANZA EXTRAVAGANZA MAKEOVER CHALLENGE”. FRONT HAS WHITE VERTICAL BAND ALONG RIGHT EDGE WITH PINK TEXT, “LETHBRIDGE PRIDE FEST, #LETHBRIDGEPRIDEFEST, #YQLDIVACAB”. FRONT LOWER RIGHT CORNER HAS LOGO OF A RED HEART WITH AN ORANGE AND RAINBOW COLOURED BANNER STRETCHING HORIZONTALLY OVER THE HEART, WITH WHITE TEXT ON THE BANNER, “LETHBRIDGE PRIDEFEST”. INSIDE OF PAMPHLET CONTAINS CONTEST RULES. BACK OF PAMPHLET HAS WHITE TEXT ON PINK BANNER ALONG TOP EDGE, “REFERENCES, DRAG-A-DOLL MAKEOVER CHALLENGE; CENTER OF BACK SHOWS SEVEN WHITE HEARTS WITH EXAMPLES OF “DRAGGED UP” DOLLS; BOTTOM EDGE HAS PINK BANNER WITH WHITE TEXT, “PHOTO CREDIT: IG @MARK_JONATHAN_REPAINTS”. PAMPHLET IS CREASED AND FOLDED; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION. C. PLASTIC BAG CONTAINING KIT, 29.5CM L X 25.8CM W. BAG IS CLEAR WITH BLUE AND YELLOW ZIP-CLOSURE RUNNING HORIZONTALLY ALONG TOP EDGE; BAG HAS TRANSPARENT “GLAD” LOGOS PRINTED ON FRONT. BAG IS CRINKLED AND FOLDED; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Subjects

TOY

Historical Association

ASSOCIATIONS

LEISURE

History

ON JULY 25, 2019, GALT MUSEUM CURATOR AIMEE BENOIT AND COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED ELISABETH HEGERAT REGARDING HER DONATION OF PRIDE MATERIALS. ON THE DRAG-A-DOLL KIT, HEGERAT NOTED, “I THINK PARTLY THE PURPOSE [OF THE DRAG-A-DOLL CONTEST] WAS TO GET RID OF A BUNCH OF NAKED BARBIE DOLLS. THE THEME THE YEAR BEFORE FOR THE [PRIDE] DANCE HAD BEEN LIFE IN PLASTIC BECAUSE THE SPECIAL GUEST HAD BEEN FORMER RUPAUL QUEEN, TRIXIE MATTEL. SO THEY WENT WITH THE BARBIE THEME AND THERE WAS THIS WHOLE ARCH OF NAKED BARBIE DOLLS. I DID NOT PERSONALLY SEE IT, BUT I HEARD OF IT, WHICH ENDED WITH NICK AND DERRICK [ANSON] HAVING SEVERAL FULL GIANT TOOL [BOXES] FULL OF ONE HUNDRED PLUS NAKED BARBIES IN THEIR GARAGE THAT THEY DID NOT WANT. SO THE IDEA WAS THAT YOU COULD PICK UP A BARBIE, DRESS IT IN DRAG AND ENTER IT FOR TICKETS TO THE DIVA CABARET WHICH IS A FUND RAISER PRIDE HOSTED WITH THE CASINO, WHICH IS STILL RUNNING. IT’S AN ANNUAL EVENT. SO IT WAS BOTH A COMBINATION OF, LET’S GET RID OF THE BARBIE’S AND LET’S DO SOMETHING CREATIVE AS AN EVENT PROMOTION.” “TO ENTER [THE CONTEST]…YOU HAVE [TO] SUBMIT [YOUR] PICTURES ONLINE AND THEN YOU HAD TO RETURN THE DOLL TO EITHER CAT WALK OR DRUNKEN SAILOR, IF YOU WANTED TO OFFICIALLY ENTER AND HAVE YOUR DOLL BE JUDGED. I KNOW THAT WE DID NOT GIVE AWAY SEVERAL HUNDRED BARBIE’S, BUT I THINK THERE HAD BEEN FIFTEEN OR TWENTY AT LEAST. I ALSO KNOW THAT THE LIBRARY QSA WANTED TO DO IT AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS, SO THAT IS WHAT THEY DID, THEY DID THE DRAG BARBIES.” “IT WOULD BE UP TO PEOPLE [PARTICIPATING] TO SOURCE THEIR OWN FABRIC, OR DUCT TAPE OF GLITTER AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY WANTED TO PUT ON. GARAGE SALE BARBIE DOLL CLOTHES AND GLUE SEQUINS ON THEM.” “THEY WERE JUDGED BY SOME OF THE QUEENS PARTICIPATING IN THE DIVA CABARET. I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A COMBINATION OF A COUPLE PEOPLE FROM PRIDE FEST AND A COUPLE OF QUEENS…I BELIEVE THE [DRAGGED-UP] BARBIES WERE LOST TO THE AGES, BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER AND ALL LOST AT ONCE. POSSIBLY WHEN THE BOARD MEMBER ORGANIZING IT MOVED TO CALGARY, BUT THERE WAS AN INCIDENT IN THE MOVING THAT LOST THE BARBIE’S SOMEHOW.” IN AN INTERVIEW WITH HEGERAT FROM JULY 25, 2019, HEGERAT RECALLED HER TIME WORKING WITH THE LETHBRIDGE PRIDE FEST SOCIETY, NOTING, “I THINK IT WAS 2016 THAT I FIRST STARTED VOLUNTEERING WITH THE PRIDE BOARD…WHEN WE MOVED HERE IN 2006…PRIDE IN THE PARK DIDN’T EXIST, OR THE PARADE, OR ANYTHING ELSE. THERE WAS A BARBECUE, AND WE NEVER REALLY WENT TO IT, BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW ANYBODY…WE KNEW WE COULD SHOW UP AND PEOPLE WOULD BE GLAD WE WERE THERE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT IT STILL KIND OF FELT LIKE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRASHING SOMEBODY’S FAMILY BARBECUE, BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW ANYONE.” “WHEN PRIDE IN THE PARK STARTED, I KNOW THERE WERE A COUPLE OF YEARS WHERE WE WANDERED OVER AND CHECKED IT OUT, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT [I] DIDN’T REALLY KNOW ANYBODY. WHEN, I THINK IT WAS 2015, [ONE OF THE PRIDE IN THE PARK PROGRAMS] WAS THEY HAD AN AUTHOR FROM CALGARY, A POET, COME AND DO A READING…WE WENT, AND WE LISTENED TO HER READ, AND I KNOW THE PEOPLE AT THE U OF L BOOKSTORE QUITE WELL THROUGH DOING LIBRARY STUFF, AND SO WAS HANGING OUT WITH BECKY COLBECK, AND KARI TANAKA, AND ONE OF THEIR BOOKSTORE STAFF, NICK ANTSON—HE AND HIS HUSBAND, DERRICK, WERE ON THE PRIDE BOARD. SO I ENDED UP TALKING WITH THEM, AND THEN STARTED THINKING…“MAYBE WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING AT THE LIBRARY NEXT YEAR.” AND THAT, AND SORT OF A FEW OTHER COMMITMENTS WITH WORK, AND A PUSH FROM THE LIBRARY TO GET MORE INVOLVED…IN THE COMMUNITY…I SHOWED UP FOR THE FIRST PRIDE FEST BOARD MEETING, AND JUST KEPT SHOWING UP…AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IN, I THINK THE MEETING WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE OCTOBER, 2015, BUT IT WAS FOR THE 2016 PRIDE. SO, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED AS A VOLUNTEER SINCE THEN, AND HAVE DONE SOME WORK LIAISING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN PRIDE FEST AND THE LIBRARY FOR PARTNER PROGRAMS…FOR 2019 PRIDE, I’M FINISHING MY FIRST TERM AS AN ELECTED BOARD MEMBER.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE P20190020001-GA.

Catalogue Number

P20190020042

Acquisition Date

2019-07

Collection

Museum

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