The black drag queen is both comedic and glamorous.
The black drag queen is fierce."
Black drag does it better
“Citizens with marginal status have always contributed disproportionately to the culture.
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Jews, with their Yiddish, gave us chutzpah, schlepping, schmatta, kvetching.
And so it is with black drag, only more so.
Black drag goes way beyond a list of words.
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It is the great gift of the black drag queen.
Why is black drag such a rich source?
If creativity and originality is a function of marginal status, then the black drag queen wins the jackpot.
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She was marginalized from society, the gay community and her own community.
To be black, gay anden travesti?
Kitty Kunt and her sisters hit the marginal motherlode.”
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Here he cavorted openly with a frock-wearing male companion named Fanny.
Stella was a reckless and fabulous character who broke every Victorian taboo and whose tabloid scandal riveted nineteenth-century Britain.
The most sizzling revelations concerned Stellas masquerade as Lady Stella Pelham-Clinton, wife of Tory MP Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton.
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Stella fled to New York and became a successful female impersonator.
At some point he returned to England and died in reduced circumstances, aged 56.
Stellas saga took place well over a century and a half ago.
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Anti-cross-dressing laws persisted long after her death.
Robert Swope and Michel Hurst published the images into a book.
Without this chance encounter, the radical and courageous secret of Casa Susanna might have been lost to history.
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They are supermodels times a billion.
There remains, however, a distinct whiff of the Medusa about those look queens.
Fierceness is still very much in the house.
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Its not just lady power, its lady power through paint and creativity.
And politics are on the menu.
A visit to DragCon reveals that Medusa may have moved way beyond the previously exclusive grasp of gay males.
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This change is historic and momentous.
