In the Depression-era days of Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque dancing was about as naughty, and as nude, as it got in public. The emphasis was on the tease more than the strip, until Playboy and harder-core ...

At 82, Jean Schur did something most women wouldn't do at any age. The great-grandmother of five from Coram went onstage before a live audience in Las Vegas last year and stripped. Her signature fan ...

Only one of the valley’s museum collections regularly features pasties and G-strings. The Burlesque Hall of Fame at Emergency Arts, 520 E. Fremont St., may have one of the smallest displays among the ...

There was a time when New Orleans was more famous for burlesque on Bourbon Street than for its music or food. From the late 1930s until the early 1960s, as many as 50 burlesque shows could be seen on ...

Oddball Films presents Vintage Burlesque Bonanza!, a titillating night of burlesque beauties, oddities, and even animation from the 1930s-1950s all screened on 16mm film from the archive. These erotic ...

Earlier this month, Florida settled a lawsuit filed by several LGBTQ rights groups against the law popularly known as “Don’t Say Gay.” The settlement clarifies that the law does not fully prohibit ...