17.09 / 21:51
Musto: More dish has been unearthed from Dorian Corey’s closet
Dorian Corey was the notorious drag performer (seen in the classic doc Paris is Burning) who, after dying of AIDS in ‘93, turned out to have a Naugahyde-wrapped dead body stashed away in her closet.Don’t we all?The corpse happened to be that of convicted rapist Robert Worley—a/k/a “Bobby”–and however that creep ended up in the closet, Corey was no doubt afraid to notify the cops about what had happened, tucking the evidence away for years like a bad wig.Dorian’s (and Bobby’s) astounding trajectory has been the subject of much media, including a 2019 plotline on Pose.Well, the closet door has been opened up yet again. A new play–Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story by Jeffery S.