Watching The Brini Maxwell Show tonight I thought back to the 80's, when I was combing the NY club scene searching for Andy Warhol, I held tightly to my bible Details magazine. Sure you know the Details rag of today that men’s mag that address' the metro sexual. I'm referring to the original Details of Stephan Saban and Michael Musto, journalists of the club scene.
I recall Rupaul being mentioned in every issue. She was a fabulous 6ft tall drag queen who much later fell into mainstream media. Yes, I am referring to that Rupaul.
One time in Details I read the obituary of one Jackie Curtis. They raved about Jackie's greatness and what a lose her death was to the world. I believed she might have had some serious addiction issues. All these years later and there is a film about her.
Then there is Lady Bunny and Wigstock. I thought that looked like the greatest party on earth and the Lady is the hostess with the mostess.
Lypsinka is such a cool name for a drag queen and she is gorgeous! Once I heard she was appearing here in Philly and I wanted to see her perform.
Finally, one other thing to share with you. I saw Lou Reed live and he performed Walk on the Wild Side. The song is about drag queens (Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling etc.) in the back room of Max' Kansas City in the 60's. Read the lyrics. Lou is literally saying what went on as any Warhol aficionado knows.
I always try and be sure to share the most intriguing information with you, dear reader. I hope you appreciate it. ♥
| Posted by: Paula | April 1, 2005 10:58 AM |
My ideal partner would be Drag Queen. There's just so many reasons as to why, but really...the perfect mate for me would be a man who likes to dress in Drag. *sighs* Good thoughts...good thoughts. |
| Posted by: Tony | April 2, 2005 07:48 PM |
At the drop of a hat the majority of men in the UK will don a pair of plastic tits and their mums Sunday dress and parade around the town ‘vogueing’ to all and sundry. If fancy dress is called for them brit males take it literally and put on that 'fancy' dress they saw in Emporio Armani when last they checked out the ties. I suspect the reason is drag allows all sorts of liberties normally suppressed in the English male. Gay for play so to speak as most men have no idea how to act as a woman (but then who does as women do not act but are…) so compromise by camping it up under the illusion that women are the same as a promiscuous, flaming homosexual male but choose not to act out there feelings just to make life tough for men. So as a man he can do women better.... Here is the dilemma for the professional drag queen. Do they ‘do’ a woman for real or do they do ‘man as woman’. Why the hell would anyone want to see a man doing a real woman when there is likely to be a real woman is close proximity anyway? You have to take it to an extreme and that extreme will always have the meat and two veg packed in there somewhere spewing out the testosterone... Give me a transsexual any day! |