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MARCH 28 - APRIL 1ST 🌈 Glitter Theatrical Ltd @

MARCH 28 - APRIL 1ST 🌈 Glitter Theatrical Ltd @glittertheatrical is presenting Mary Lacy Woz Queer at King's Head Theatre in London. Go to @kingsheadtheatre for tickets ✨
Mary Lacy (c. 1740 – 1801) was a British sailor, shipwright and memoirist. She was the first woman to have been given an exam and a pension from the British Admiralty as a shipwright.
Lacy was born in Wickham, Kent c.1740. At age 12, she became a domestic servant. In 1759 at 19, Lacy ran away from home dressed as a boy. Using the name William Chandler, Lacy worked as a servant for a ship's carpenter of the British navy. William was her father's name and Chandler was her mother's maiden name. She then studied as an apprentice to be a shipwright in 1763, going on to successfully complete the apprenticeship. In 1770, she took her exam as a shipwright, arguably the first woman to have done so. In 1771, however, she was forced to stop working because of her rheumatism, and applied for a pension from the Admiralty under her legal name, Mary Lacy, which was granted. She published her memoirs The Female Shipwright in 1773. This was reprinted by the National Maritime Museum in 2008.
A chapter in Suzanne Stark's book Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail features Lacy's life in eighteenth century England
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🌟FINAL WEEK🌟 Hey folks! Have you purchased y

🌟FINAL WEEK🌟
Hey folks! Have you purchased your Drag King Tea yet ? LINK IN BIO

We are offering this limited edition tea taster box until March 31st in honor of Women's History Month.

The best part about this deal is not only do you get a box of the world's finest teas but every sale of each box goes towards raising funds for our project to preserve our illustrious Drag King History. This is the gift that keeps on giving.

Only a few left... so make your purchase by MARCH 31st and be a part of supporting our history.

BUY YOUR TEA BOX
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WE ARE STEEPED IN HISTORY March 8th is Internation

WE ARE STEEPED IN HISTORY March 8th is International Women’s Day and to celebrate, we have a Drag King History Tea Taster Box for you (link in bio to purchase) which pairs 10 performers to 10 teas, thanks to @steepnclay

Here is what you get:
Tang Dynasty(618 - 907 A.D.):Osmanthus Oolong

Mlle de Maupin(1690 - 1705)Mistress Grey

Vesta Tilley(1869 - 1920):English Breakfast

Maude Adams (1900 - 1918):Sleep Sweetly

MISORA Hibari (1943 - 1989):Kukicha Gold

Gladys Bentley (1925 - 1950):The Chocolate Beauty

Azucena Maizani (1920 - 1945):Sol Mate

Stormé DeLarverié (1955 - 1969):Campfire

Mo B. Dick (1995 - present):Milky Oolong

Ken Vegas (1996 - present):Rooibos Chai

Link in bio to purchase this limited edition box. Your purchase not only supports Drag King History but a small business owner as well. Cheers to all the wonderful women all over the world!!

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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are

Cheers to Black History Month 🌟Janelle Monáe R

Cheers to Black History Month 🌟Janelle Monáe Robinson (born Dec 1, 1985) @janellemonae is an American singer, rapper and actor. They received 8 Grammy nominations, won a MTV Video Music Award & the ASCAP Vanguard Award in 2010. Monáe was also honored with the Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award in 2015 and the Trailblazer of the Year Award in 2018

These photos are from the book Dandy Lion - The Black Dandy & Street Style by Shantrelle P.Lewis
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In celebration of Black History Month, we encourag

In celebration of Black History Month, we encourage you to visit the profiles on our website for:
Florence Hines (1890-1906) portrait by Raisa Yavneh
Aida Overton Walker (1911-1914)
Alberta “Bert” Whitman (1914-1940)
Gladys Bentley (1923-1945)
Storme DeLarverie (1955-1969)
Dred (1995-2012) photo by Yvon Baumann

These prolific performers were pioneers who brought bravery and visibility to our art form all the while depicting black masculinity in formidable ways never utilizing belittling tropes. We salute them not just this month but every day !

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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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