I suppose the line I'm drawing in my head is between those bizarre and convincing drag shows you catch at 1am in New Orleans, and "To Wong Foo."
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i think 'like blackface' might have been a fairly worthwhile call; blackface performance had a lot more dimensions to it than ridicule. obviously blackface is/was poisoned/poisonous in a buncha ways that drag isn't. otoh female impersonation was quite often a part of the 19th-century minstrel show, and not just in a pantomime-dame way, either
― thomp, Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(otoh there were a lot of black minstrel show performers, and i can't quite work around the idea of women dressing in drag as women) (insert gender studies degree here)
― thomp, Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 11 October 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i've dressed in men's clothes before, but it was for my job at nordstrom. so it doesn't really count--it's not like i bound my tits or stuffed my pants or anything. i fucking hated wearing a tie though. HATED.
i wouldn't ever be interested in trying to do drag, partially because i'd be afraid that i'd look too convincing as a man, in a bad way. i'm insecure.
which is weird, because i know (female) people that occasionally do drag and look really hot--maybe it would take a confidence that i lack. or something.
― JuliaA, Sunday, 11 October 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I once went to a (M/F) wedding where the dress for the reception was "formal drag." It was kind of fantastic to see, although I was unconvincing.
Thing that blew my little mind in 1992: going to Wigstock in Tompkins Square Park and seeing a handful of biological women in "drag" as women. (It's possible to do that in a way that's not so possible for bio-men to be "drag kings.")
― Douglas, Monday, 12 October 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
kenan your photo is truly incredible.
― existential eggs (Abbott), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
That's not me, btw. That's a screenshot of Graham Chapman from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Lest anyone be confused.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 12 October 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 12 October 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
WELL.
― ian, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Indeed.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i fucking hated wearing a tie though. HATED.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/green-tie.jpg
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
So, if we would take the numbers to be representative, this would mean 52% of ILXors have dressed in drag. And out of the ones who haven't, 12% would like to. Great results!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to a birthday party with a drag theme, thrown mostly by lesbian women, so I took an eyeliner pencil and painted on a John Waters-type moustache.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you a girl, or was that a case of a guy being a drag king?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i intend to be a big-assed grandma for halloween tbh
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
t/s: exploring one's sexuality vs coopting gay culture
― ΡΎ (imago), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
TS 2009 vs 2014 more like
I've had my eyes done to humour girlfriends is about it
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link