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Dolly Parton, On Losing A Drag Queen Competition

Julie GersteinNovember 27, 2012 //
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“They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year, so I just over-exaggerated — made my beauty mark bigger, the eyes bigger, the hair bigger, everything. All these beautiful drag queens had worked for weeks and months getting their clothes. So I just got in the line and I just walked across, and they just thought I was some little short gay guy.. but I got the least applause.”

––Dolly Parton tells a story from her new memoir, Dream More, out November 27. If you don’t love Dolly Parton I don’t even want to know you.

Drag Queen Barbie Is Ready For Her Close-Up

Winona Dimeo-EdigerAugust 17, 2012 //
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Everyone, I’d like you to meet Drag Queen Barbie. Created for Mattel (yep, this is a real, official, honest-to-God Barbie) by design duo The Blonds, the cross-dressing doll is decked out in a bejeweled mini dress, satin-lined fur cape, and some seriously smoky eye makeup. Drag Queen Barbie is a collector’s edition, so she doesn’t come cheap, but hey, $125 is a small price to pay to add a fierce gender-bending Barbie to your heteronormative doll collection. Currently available for pre-order at Barbie Collector, Drag Queen Barbie will be released just in time for Christmas, but if Santa forgets to bring you one, don’t get too discouraged–you can always DIY your own with a fabulous Barbie dress and a willing Ken Doll. [Clutch]

These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty

Rachel KrauseAugust 3, 2012 //
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
These Half-Drag Portraits Will Make You Reconsider Everything You Know About Beauty
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If you find T Magazine‘s Model-Morphosis as utterly transfixing as I do, then prepare to be stunned: photographer Leland Bobbé’s incredible new portraits will blow your mind. The ongoing series depicts men who masquerade as women as one dichotomous (and, it must be said, beautiful) persona — half masculine, half feminine, neither male nor female. Says the artist, “My intention is to capture both the male and the alter-ego female side of these subjects in one image … These are composed in camera and are not two separate images joined together.” The result is a powerful and welcome addition to the conversation of gender and a segue into Nietzche’s overman, “the man that goes beyond, who is beyond.” I’ll drink to that! Click through to check out the full series. Fair warning: there are many. [Refinery29 via Vogue Italia]

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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Star Willam Belli Talks Cunnilingus

Megan CarpentierMay 2, 2012 //
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If you watched Willam Belli on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” this season, you noticed two things: one, he is an incredibly talented and beautiful performer; and two, he was smart enough to be the bitchiest, most ego-centric drag queen in the room. After all, reality TV viewers may love Miss Congeniality (Latrice Royale, in this case), but the cameras love drama.

I caught up with Willam just before the finale event for a series of more serious videos about politics and bullying, but you can’t keep the performer behind “Love You Like A Big Schlong” or “Chow Down (At Chick-fil-A)” from cracking wise. What you can, however, get is the lyricist behind “The Vagina Song to respond to charges of misogyny and transphobia … once you explain what “misogyny” means. [YouTube] Keep reading »

Drag Queens Endorse Anti-Gay Chick Fil-A, Hilariously

Julie GersteinMarch 20, 2012 //
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Chick Fil-A is kind of a conservative fast food company that, besides closing every Sunday to observe the Lord’s day, has also generously donated to anti-gay groups in the past. But should that stop a bunch of drag queens from enjoying a bunch of delicious fried chicken? Hell to the no. That’s why this Wilson Phillips ripoff group decided to sing a special ode to the fast food chain. The chorus? “Someday somebody’s gonna make you wanna gobble up a waffle fry, but no girl, Chick Fil-A say you’re gonna make the baby Jesus cry.” Also, will somebody reveal to me the secrets of incredible drag queen airbrush makeup techniques? These ladies look fierce. [Buzzfeed]

Sadly, RuPaul Isn’t Running For President

Julie GersteinJanuary 10, 2012 //
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In recent weeks, your love of all things draggy and sparkly may have momentarily given you a brain fart — seeing all those mentions of Ron Paul everywhere certainly did remind us of a certain leggy ’90s icon. But no, as much as we wish it were true, it’s Ron Paul that’s running for president — not RuPaul. Ru made a special surprise stop in New Hampshire this weekend to clarify that he shouldn’t be confused with Ron.

“I’m not really a political person by nature,” he said, “though stepping out of the house in six inch heels and a wig is a political statement of sorts.” And would it really be all that weird for Ru to run? “This country was founded by a bunch of men in wigs,” he continued. It does seem strange, though — “You better work” seems oddly prescient given our current financial crisis. Maybe Ru should reconsider.  [Raw Story]

The Life And Times Of Snookie Lanore

Julie GersteinDecember 7, 2011 //
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Drag balls are a vibrant part of gay urban culture; the 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning” perfectly encapsulated the showmanship, extravagance and fierceness of the underground parties, where contestants danced, vogued and walked off in “realness” battles. More than 20 years later, drag balls are still alive and well — and they’ve entranced a younger generation of queer youth. In “The Show Must Go On,” teenage ball emcee Snookie Lanore explains what his Kiki Ball is all about. [Vimeo]

Is This Spoof Always Ad With Drag Queens Transphobic — Or Revolutionary?

Jessica WakemanAugust 12, 2011 //

Men aren’t usually in commercials for period products. But this spoof ad — which Proctor & Gamble denied via Twitter is affiliated with Always — has lots of them. Men in bright red lipstick, men in bustiers, men with beehive hairdos that would put Amy Winehouse to shame. The spoof stars drag queens and lots of ‘em; each one is boo-hooing like a three-year-old girl because he’s got man parts down south. “There are some people who would just love to have a period,” the subtitling reads. “Let alone a happy one.” I, a person not usually known for her love of advertisements, think the commercial is actually pretty revolutionary. I mean, drag queens? In a commercial? And it’s not the Super Bowl and they’re not being mocked?

Other bloggers did not quite agree with me, calling the commercial “transphobic.” Keep reading »

ABC’s New Comedy, “Work It,” Puts Straight Guys In Drag

Jessica WakemanMay 24, 2011 //

You know what’s really funny, guys? Putting men in women’s clothes! Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw! Thus is the premise of ABC’s new comedy, “Work It,” about two men who can’t get hired for any jobs because women are better educated, so they don wigs, skirts, and makeup. What follows is a comedy of errors about men, dressed as women, learning the high-heeled and Cosmopolitan-soaked ropes of woman-dom.
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