{"id":2945,"date":"2009-01-27T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T03:43:43","slug":"boys-will-be-girls-and-girls-will-be-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2945","title":{"rendered":"Boys Will Be Girls And Girls Will Be Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t known this, but the other day on Fark.Com one of the headlines read that January is National Drag History Month<\/a>.  As a gay man who tends to favor somewhat androgynous males, I have to admit that some of these performers just knock me out.  That’s not to say I like it when guys dress up as girls, so much as when guys can be sexy and sultry and beautiful.  There’s an art to this that I never really appreciated when I was younger, and stereotyped drag as an artifact of gay repression.  You can certainly view it that way.  But in a more liberated time, you can also view it as a kind of subversive gender-bending art that is beautiful and sexy for its own sake.<\/p>\n

Some drag performers don’t have it.  They just look like guys wearing dresses.  But some guys have got it going on.  One commenter on Fark said that a boy in a dress is just a boy in a dress. <\/p>\n

No…  Not at all…<\/p>\n

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…not at all.   <\/p>\n

So…  Happy National Drag History Month Mrs Cuba…aka Deanna Lexington.  Wish my friends down there hadn’t been such a bunch of jackass knuckle-dragging dickheads and let me have a chance to meet you last year.  But if you happen to chance across this post…I have some more photos from that Academy of Washington D.C. Miss Gaye Universe Ball.  It was nice to see you get an award.  Personally, I thought you should have taken it all.\n<\/p>\n

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