Octavia St. Laurent

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Octavia St. Laurent is an American transgendered performer featured in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning. [1]

As of the 2003 release of the documentary How Do I Look, she was using the name Heavenly Angel Octavia St. Laurent Manolo Blahnik. She discusses her drug use, sex work, and fight with AIDS. [2]

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  1. ^ Green, Jesse (April 18, 1993). Paris Has Burned. New York Times
  2. ^ Cotter, Holland (October 24, 2003). 'DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art.' New York Times

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