![]() ![]() You are no longer “impersonating” a woman. If you are pre op you are still a man once you have the operation you are now a complete real woman. Did it make a difference, I think it did because these were still technically men still “impersonating” celebrity women. The difference was none of them were post op women, many were like the women on Pose, pre op women. ![]() The “big” stars of drag were all trans women. I was the “80’s version of the Pit Crew, I danced back up with the ladies I spent many hours with them listening to their stories, amazed at the Trans woman bravery in living their lives as open as they could in the 80’s. Jerry ran the shows in the clubs I worked at in Philly back in the 80’s, Jerry loved to have the queens do huge numbers mimicking nit Broadway shows. It was before my time but it did have one man that produced the show, Jerry Venuti. Ok but is it still “Drag”? Netflix has a documentary called Queens it follows the brave men that not only starred but performed in a drag pageant. and all of it amazes me but is it drag? Ru said that he is basically following what the “kids” are doing and they are including the trans folk. Today the costumes and the original of art makeup are the “celebrities” the performers are acrobats slamming their bodies on the ground, crawling on their stomachs across the stage, flips ect. They looked, dressed and had the mannerisms of these celebrities. Most of the queens had celebrity they had studied and rehearsed for hours to try and make you believe they are in fact Cher, Jennifer Holiday, and like my Mom Rusty Roads Mamma Cass. The drag of my youth, the 80’s, is or was us trying our best to “pass” as real it was the illusion that people came to see, men dressing as and impersonating women. ![]() Having said that, when I first started seeing these beautiful talented queens doing what I thought wasn’t “Drag” I didn’t like it, now those same queens are some of my favorites to watch, especially after seeing a couple of the live shows RuPaul produces around the country. Drag started as men impersonating women.PERIOD. ![]()
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