Posts tagged drag
“Dixie’s bar in 1950s New Orleans, one of the few places in the South where gay men and lesbians could gather openly.” (via The Gay Bar: Is It Dying? @ Slate)
Big Girl Model Effect (Avis Pendavis + Monica Xtravaganza)
Paris Dupree Ball @ Sally’s Hideaway
NYC, 1991
See also: Femme Queen Luscious Body and High Fashion Labels
“Covered in bruises and smeared lipstick, Christeene wears an unkempt black wig and dresses that are often recycled pillowcases, dirty lace or simply knotted lengths of pantyhose. In the course of a performance, Christeene will show you her balls and reveal her gold tooth while spitting on you, barking lyrics about her dick and her pussy. In other words, she is a far cry from what most audiences have come to expect from a drag show. And yet, after a show in front of an audience filled with go-go-dancer-ogling, Chelsea Boy types in the Los Angeles gay bar Fubar—a venue where Soileau initially read the audience as wary of Christeene’s aesthetic—one of those muscle men approached her and said, ‘You really just changed the way I think.’”
- from “Christeene” by Chelsea Weathers @ artlies.org, photo by Leigh-Anne Brown; see also, and previously
Peter Hujar - Charles Ludlam as Camille, 1974 (via sleeplessinsouthie)
“Photographs of commitment” (1912-1964) from the Sydney Justice & Police Museum archive @ laboiteverte.fr, via coilhouse
Date unknown (via zenfancy)
The Varla Chronicles: “In Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, an alcoholic Varla tricks a couple into paying for her services as a surrogate mother to raise money to produce a children’s TV show.” (bestofneworleans.com; see also, and nota bene)
