The queen of the neo-burlesque movement got her start working in a California strip club. Except that she didn't dress or act like the rest of the strippers. Von Teese adopted a 1940s look and set out ...

Zorita (center) with her mother (left) and friend “Gus” (right), circa 1950s Earlier this month, Florida settled a lawsuit filed by several LGBTQ rights groups against the law popularly known as ...

As a burlesque dancer at the Follies Theater in downtown L.A., Dixie Evans encountered a few rats in the early 1950s, but not all of them were customers. Some were actual rodents. “There was a big, ...

Frieda Dewald LaBreche, a burlesque dancer who played Bourbon Street under the name of Wild Cherry beginning in the late 1950s, passed away Wednesday, June 25. She was 79. According to New Orleans ...

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 ...

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 ...