Drag King History – The Drag Kingdom has come

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THE DRAG KINGDOM HAS COME

Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies created i

Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies created in 2016 by Kenyan photographer & digital artist Osborne Macharia @osborne_macharia found in the book Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy & Street Style by Shantrelle P. Lewis
🌟Cheers to Black History Month🌟

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Thank you @lesbianherstoryarchives for these terri

Thank you @lesbianherstoryarchives for these terrific photos

Posted @withregram • @lesbianherstoryarchives Found Images! You may have seen these familiar trays and boxes with old photos at a street fair, or the vintage store, or an estate sale. Sometimes the images just can't help but make you think: Lesbian!!!
The images speak to a shared sensibility and make us smile. Here are three of them, selected and described by our volunteer Cat, who worked on the collection a while ago.
Two of today's visitors, Bari and Rosie, made a selection of three for you, for now. Enjoy!

ID 1: A sepia-toned photo of a person dressed as the ringleader of a circus, outfitted in a snazzy jacket, top hat, bow tie, and pants, holding a staff. She rests her knee on a wooden chair posed for the camera. Where is this circus? We’d love to go!
ID 2: A sepia-toned photo of two people wearing overalls and caps, standing outside a barn. This photo is from 1939 and has a handwritten caption under the image: “We don’t care if we do.” Is the person on the left speaking? What did she say to make the other person smile like that?
ID 3: One sepia toned-photo of three people wearing fancy suits and hats with their hands in their pockets holding cigarettes and smiling big.
ID 4: our volunteer Cat working on the found images.
ID 5: visitors Bari (r) and Rosie (l) looking at the collection.

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Kings of the World (our newest entry on our site)

Kings of the World (our newest entry on our site) was a monthly global cyber drag king variety show that brought drag king, trans, non-binary performers from six of the seven continents together for 4 shows in 2020 ! It was streamed through Twitch, an American video live-streaming service. The shows were co-produced by Los Angeles based drag kings Johnny Gentleman @johnnythegentla, Pelvis Breastly, and Mo B. Dick @mrmobdick who also hosted the shows.

The Pride show on July 15, 2020 included a total of 129 drag kings, trans and non-binary performers making it one of the most populated drag shows in virtual drag
show history.

A library of the 62 video performances was created to view, and we hope you enjoy all of these wonderful performances !
🌟Click the link in our bio for more info🌟

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Doja Cat's @dojacat Paris Fashion Week style will

Doja Cat's @dojacat Paris Fashion Week style will certainly go down as unforgettable. At Viktor & Rolf's show, here she is in a mustache, goatee, and brows, all made from faux eyelashes serving drag king realness !

Doja Cat (Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini born on October 21, 1995) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

Photos by: Marc Piasecki @marcpiasecki @gettyimages @viktorandrolf

Thank you @thekingperkasex for posting this !

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Kate Winslet in L’Uomo Vogue in 2015 photographe

Kate Winslet in L’Uomo Vogue in 2015 photographed by Peter Lindbergh. Clare Richardson styled Kate in oversized coats, form-fitting jumpsuits and oxford style shoes for the black and white portraits.
Winslet is a multi-award winning actress with an Academy Award, a Grammy, 2 Emmy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, and 5 Golden Globe Awards. Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021
@kate.winslet.official @therealpeterlindbergh
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GREAT NEWS‼️Thu JAN 19th 8-9am PST (11am-12pm

GREAT NEWS‼️Thu JAN 19th 8-9am PST (11am-12pm EST) tune into NPR @npr @wamu885 (click link in bio to listen) for a live panel discussion with Drag Kings@mrmobdick @drwangnewton & @kingmolasses 👑
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Lynne Jassem @lynnejassem (tap dancer, mime, comic

Lynne Jassem @lynnejassem (tap dancer, mime, comic, monologist, singer) has three full length solo shows: "From Como to Homo"; "Tapping my Way to the Nuthouse"; "Being Richard Greene"

In her latest show "Being Richard Greene", Lynne tries to find herself as a girl as a boy as a man as a woman and as lesbian and finally, it seems, as a human being. The title “Being Richard Greene” is a nod to the days when she would call up girls from school and tell them she was Richard Greene and ask if they would they like to see a movie.

Lynne is a native New Yorker who broke into show business at the age of ten on the Perry Como TV show in 1957, later performing on the famous “Borscht Belt” circuit and TV soap operas. And she played the White House, Boston Pops and both Kennedy and Lincoln Center with the Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre, later forming her own company, Manhattan Mime Theatre. Lynne was one of the five founding members of the American Tap Dance Orchestra, dancing with Gregory Hines and Tommy Tune.

Big thanks to Drag King Legend @bridgemarkland for bringing Lynne to our attention
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Betti Kuhn of Vienna Austria was an award winning

Betti Kuhn of Vienna Austria was an award winning male impersonator, singer & comedian. These postcard photos are from 1910 by photographer J. Steinbock. Public domain from the Cornell University Library digital collections, “Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930.”
Thank you to @bridgemarkland for bringing Betti to our attention. And big thanks to @gkoskovich for scouting these out for Cornell 🙏🏼
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Posted @withrepost • @gkoskovich Adventures in B

Posted @withrepost • @gkoskovich Adventures in Book-Dealing: Arrived in Brussels late this afternoon — and promptly darted out for a couple hours of scouting.

This is my first stay in the Belgian capital since 2018. I was delighted to find that a postcard dealer I had discovered by chance during that sojourn is still in business despite the disruptions of the pandemic and the many challenges to brick-and-mortar vintage shops.

As with my previous visit, the owner said he was sure he didn't have any cross-dressing postcards. And as is my habit, I asked to see apparently unrelated categories of cards that often turn out to include on-point images.

I turned up some 15 items of interest dating to circa 1900–1925. The photo shows a sample, with postcards from Belgium, England, France and Germany.

All represent women cross-dressed as men. The top two rows portray performers from music-hall, a genre of theater where such acts were popular.

The bottom row shows two from a series of 10 photo-illustration cards likely from France featuring children reenacting the life of Joan of Arc, plus a Belgian photo-illustration of a "garçonne" (a mannish modern young woman of the 1920s).
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Drag King History was made on Canada’s Drag Race

Drag King History was made on Canada’s Drag Race: Canada VS The world, episode 3 when drag queen @victoriascone , the first cisgender female contestant on any series of the Drag Race franchise, walked the runway as Victor Stone, a Fabio inspired Drag King look. This was the best look of the night and garnered praises from the judges. Social media quickly followed with legions of praise for her bold stance in support of her lesser known brethren.

Victoria chose to do a Drag King look to prove a point. “Because people love to say that drag kings couldn’t possibly be judged on the same level as us, and, tonight, I have proven that wrong. I didn’t just step my p***y up, I stepped my junk up.”
‘Hello, world. I’m Victor Stone, and I’ve come to take over this competition. The fantasy is: I just got off a horse and I smell like money and man.’

PS - now we ALL want hairy legs
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Drag King Legend DRED is on a billboard in Hollywo

Drag King Legend DRED is on a billboard in Hollywood‼️‼️‼️ Thank you @m_o_t_h_a 💝 Posted @withrepost • @m_o_t_h_a Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art: Forever Coming Soon (2022, 2 minutes)
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8775 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
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Plays at the top of every hour until February 28th, 2023!
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A video collage advertising the forever under construction and always imminent museum highlighting trans, non-binary, and gender transgressive art & culture. Icons in the video (in order of appearance): Reed Erickson, Lady Red Couture @mothercouture , Akihirio Miwa, Chaz Bono, Albert Cashier, Lady Java, Amelio Robles Ávila, Radclyffe Hall, Amos Mac @amosmac, Candy Darling, Giueseppe Campuzano, Greer Lankton @greer_lankton_archives_museum, Calpernia Adams, Venus Xtravaganza, Amanda Lear, Ana Mendieta, Lou Sullivan, We'wha, Jackie Shane, Jack Bee Garland, Assunta Femia, Magnus Hirschfeld, Leigh Bowery, Dante "Tex" Gill, Amy Schneider, Mildred Gerstant (aka Dred aka Light Ning), Claude Cahun, Genesis P-Orridge, Thomas Beatie, Vaginal Davis, Steve Dain, Sylvia Rivera, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), Nong Rose Barnjaroensuk, Marsha P. Johnson, Nina Arsenault, Kate Bornstein, Justin Vivian Bond @mxviv, Jeanne d'Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, 1928), Hollywood Lawn, Dawn Langley Simmons, Christine Jorgensen, Alan Hart, Young Joon Kwak, @youngjoonkwak, Yasumasa Morimura, Angela (Sleepaway Camp, 1983), William Dorsey Swann, Vanguard San Francisco, Stormé DeLarverie, Gluck, a Clownfish, Saff Saffrey (Tiger King), Boy George, Petra/Pedro Herrera, Public Universal Friend, Anohni, Jahna Steele, Moll Cutpurse, Billy Tipton, Cassils @cassilsartist, Nadezhda Durova, Victor/Victoria (1982), Mary Jones, a seahorse, Milo Smiley mlrhys, Zackary Drucker @zackarydrucker , Sylvester.

Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro @whateverjeanne

🎉Sat DEC 17th 7:30pm 🎉 DKH FUNDRAISER in Jos

🎉Sat DEC 17th 7:30pm 🎉 DKH FUNDRAISER in Joshua Tree, CA~ TIX: in bio

Sparkle & Swagger Queer Cabaret and Fundraiser for Drag King History!

Mohave Hi-Desert queer & trans drag, performance, film and music featuring the legendary MO B. DICK, @mrmobdick and local performers! digging into our past to know our future! This event is also fundraiser for Drag King History

Music and Juggling:
Skyler Fell & Melody Guzman
@accordianapocalypse

Drag, Dance, Photography, Film by:
Mo B. Dick (host) @mrmobdick
T. Hammidi @dapperdates246
WishpoolOxte @wishwear
Jillian Sandell @morethanadequate
Kit Tapata @ktapata
Aidan Justus @dragkingaidanjustus
Lady Chilane @theladychilane
Aaron Sheppard @aaronsheppardart
Myshkin Warbler @myshkinwarbler
Graham Kolbeins @grahamkolbeins
Wendy Jordan @wen_forthewin

The amazing @ediefake did blue poster design !

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SEE TRANSLATION : Posted @withrepost • @dragisbu

SEE TRANSLATION :
Posted @withrepost • @dragisburning 4 de noviembre se cumplen 68 años del fallecimiento de FATIMA MIRIS, la primera mujer transformista de finales del siglo XIX.

Parece que el movimiento drag king es de rigurosa actualidad pero no estamos inventando nada nuevo, el género frívolo es más antiguo que el hilo negro y para muestra os dejamos estas fotografías de una mujer que llenó innumerables salas de teatro europeas y alrededor del mundo llegando a actuar incluso para la reina Elena de Saboya a principios del siglo XX convirtiéndose en decenas de personajes, tanto masculinos como femeninos en escena, cambiando el tono de voz, la interpretación, la ropa y todo tipo de accesorios al igual que su contemporáneo Fregoli, creador del transformismo.

Como siempre la historia recuerda más a los artistas masculinos que a los femeninos. Larga vida al transformismo y a la performatividad del género como resultado de la crítica social. 🖤

Thank you @theladylazzarus for pointing this out to us !

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Cheers to @landoncider for being in TWO tv shows !

Cheers to @landoncider for being in TWO tv shows ! Premiering today Oct 26th, Landon is a permanent guest judge on season 2 of the Canadian drag competition series Call me Mother ~ call him Guncle !! He is the 1st Drag King to be a judge in any reality tv competition show & will serve as mentor for the 15 contestants. Be sure to tune in to @outtv starting today !
AND to celebrate Halloween check out Landon in Huluween Dragstravganza, a hilarious Halloween-themed variety special that premieres exclusively through @hulu
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Posted @withrepost • @digitaltransarc Horton, No

Posted @withrepost • @gkoskovich The annual gala

Posted @withrepost • @gkoskovich The annual gala of the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives (@glbt_history) in San Francisco always features an exceptional silent auction including scarce LGBTQ ephemera, photos, art and memorabilia.

"Reunion 2022," the in-person gala, is coming up October 19 — but you can bid online starting now. Bidding closes at the end of the evening of the 19th.

As a dealer, I've donated three lots, including the one seen here: a real-photo postcard from circa 1903 by Waléry (pseudonym of Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostrorog,1863–1935).

One of a series of promotional postcards for the Florida Creole Girls, a little-documented troupe of seven African American performers who presented a cross-dressed cakewalk act on music-hall stages in France and across Europe starting around 1903.

The cakewalk was a dance form that emerged from the culture of enslaved people on plantations in the antebellum American South—a comic parade of exaggerated gestures which mocked the elaborate society dances of the White plantation owners.

The Florida Creole Girls dressed in what would have been read as "Spanish" boy’s clothing. In keeping with conventions of operetta and music-hall trouser acts, they retained some feminine signifiers such as women’s hairstyles and shoes to wink knowingly at the cross-gender illusion.

By wearing short pants and tight stockings, they showed more leg than otherwise would have been allowed for women performers, paradoxically turning the boy outfits into an arousing draw for straight men (and incidentally, not a few women-loving-women).

To bid on this and all the other lots, see link in bio.

#lgbt #lgbtq #queer #lgbthistory #lgbtqhistory #musichall #vaudeville #cakewalk #crossdressing #crossdressers #drag #dragking #women #blackwomen #blackhistory #vintagepostcard #postcard #paris #france

DKH LECTURE on SUN OCT 9th at 7pm in Berlin !! 🌟 Festival Link in bio🌟

at English Theatre Berlin
Fidicinstraße 40
10965 Berlin - Kreuzberg

In 2018, Mo B. Dick and Ken Vegas @kenvegas.dragking teamed up to create dragkinghistory.com, a free resource library to preserve this art form. In 2020, this dynamic duo granted permission to be archived in The U.S. Library of Congress ! This lecture presentation will showcase the extensive history of female-born performers who donned men's attire for theatrical purposes from breeches roles to en travesti, variety to vaudeville, male impersonation to drag kings, and drag kings to the gender free. Starting with the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.) in China through to today, performer's stories will be woven together to reflect the through line from yesteryear to the go drag! Festival 2022.

Photo: Dave Morffy
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Drag King History is rocking in Berlin at the go d

Drag King History is rocking in Berlin at the go drag ! Festival @godrag22 Mo B. Dick @mrmobdick will be there live in person on Sun OCT 9th at 7pm 🌟
->LINK IN BIO<-
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