#historical drag

[velvet-jellyfish]

Rethinking my Ancient Greek drag king costume idea

[yourdailyqueer]

Amber Richards (deceased)

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 17 November 1957 

RIP: 12 May 1996

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Drag artist, reality star, costume designer, activist

Note: Richards appeared on daytime talk shows in the early 1990s and helped introduce an American audience to issues of gender identity, sexuality, and transgender rights at a time when members of the LGBTQ community were parodied and ridiculed.

[danceinthunder]

James Potter is the type of person to climb onto a a 4ft wall and walk across it before jumping off and yell “parkour”.

[leonardoeatscarrots]

I'm not really a human Bill fan, but I wanted to draw this loser in a yellow suit, so guess who it is.

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REBLOGS > LIKES

[almaprincess66]

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

THE WAY I KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DROP THE NAMES I COULD FEEL IT AND YET I STILL SCREAMED I JUST — I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY DID IT WHATTTT

[starwikia]

suicide cw

look i have been in this area before mentally. it sucks and i wouldn’t wish this on anyone. but, and this is going to sound callous, but i don’t feel any sympathy for james somerton. even if i hope he’s like. not dead. But thats all the amount of goodwill im willing to give him. The more i think about this really, the more angry i am. 

ngl this entire situation is another example of how white people weaponize their mental illness to avoid consequences. Im seeing it in real time.

this man has a continuous habit of using self-harm as a get-out-of-jail-for-free card. in both of his apologies, he has worded his supposed attempts in ways that were clearly meant to guilt people who displayed his plagiarism and overall horrendous history of racism and misogyny. i say supposed because, while i’m not saying those are lies and this would he such a fucked up thing to lie about that i don’t want to think he has, unfortunately, it’s been proven again and again that his word can’t be trusted, as he’s known to lie to try get out of consequences. Hes a proven liar. him lying about this is actually the best case scenario, because no one should go through this entire situation, wouldnt wish this on anyone, but you can only do this so often before people stop sympathizing with you. is this callous? Yeah, but like. I’m actually fucking angry he cant straight up take no as an answer. that this is how he reacts realizing he cant be one of the Cool Kidz™️ on youtube anymore. he acts like he DESERVES a career, like its not a privilege hes lost due to his own actions.

He lied about apologizing and forgiving people, he lied about giving the money to hbomberguy to give to ppl he ripped off (yknow, instead of doing it himself), he lied about the jessie gender situation and rewrote the narrative to make it so he isnt the bad guy, and hes the victim all along actually!

you can’t tell me that supposed last message of his isn’t meant to be a 13 reasons why esq attempt to deflect the blame “look i’m going to kill myself and it’s all YOUR PEOPLES FAULT for not letting me achieve my DREAM of being filmmaker IN PEACE!!! I just wanted Nick’s (the guy who I have thrown under the bus again and again) portfolio up!! Im just being a good friend dont you all FEEL BAD” he refuses to take ANY ACCOUNTABILITY of any of his actions and he IS STILL trying to shove the blame over to other people again.

it’s also pretty ironic people are like “uhhh well hbomber’s fans harassed him!!!” like hbomber outright told people NOT to HARASS JAMES!!! ALSO acting as if james doesn’t have a very real documented history of STRAIGHT UP sending his fans to harass and threaten smaller creators, more notably women, trans, and bipoc creators. especially after he’s stolen typically very personal anecdotes so he could profit from them. so why can he do it but the second people are like “hey this guys an actual piece of shit.” and he can’t handle it suddenly people are trying to white knight his shit? like no he doesn’t get that. he doesn’t get that at all just because he couldn’t handle the consequences of his actions. 

what? were supposed to stay quiet about a man profiting off of other minorities because he wanted to be the spokesman for all gay people? people tried to solve this on a smaller, more private scales for YEARS and he kept doing it. it was clear that the giant public video was the ONLY way to get people to notice. HE WOULDVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH STEALING 87 FUCKING THOUSANDS WORTH OF DOLLARS. HE CANT HANDLE THE FACT HE CANT GET AWAY WITH IT. 

am i supposed to feel bad for the guy who basically threatened a trans woman with the police? i don’t care what anyone says, it’s so fucking obvious that he threatened jessie by implying he was getting the police involved in their conflict. what am i supposed to act like that didn’t happen? are we supposed to pretend like he didn’t glorify nazi’s and outright said that gay people made up a good chunk of the nazis? That he didnt say america joined ww2 bc they were jealous of the NAZIS. WHAT WOULD POSSESS YOU TO FUCKING SAY THAT. but then? He gives women (not even women most of the time, he misgenders nonbinary ppl constantly) shit for writing mlm. are we supposed to act like he doesn’t straight-up sees himself superior and better than people of color and steals their works to put himself on a pedestal? Are we supposed to act like he didnt spit on our elders by saying “only the boring gays survived aids” like man! Fuck you! He BLANTANTLY MAKES UP HISTORY TO PUT HIMSELF ON A PEDESTAL!! HE ACTIVELY TRIED TO REWRITE LGBT HISTORY TO SUIT HIS FUCKED UP NARRATIVES!

yes this sucks ! no one deserves this but no one should be making him a martyr. Thats what he fucking WANTS! He wants to be immortalized as a victim!! (again, supposedly, it was reported hes alive but its not confirmed).

The shit he got isnt near the amount of fucking callous behavior hes done again and again. Again, to drill this point, EVEN IF HE DIDNT CALL THE POLICE HE THREATENED A TRANS WOMAN INTO THINKING HE DID!!! The fact he tried to use a head injury to justify years of the outright ghoulish shit fucking astounds me. Why the fuck did anyone in his life thought it was a good idea to let him TRY to come back. in the end, he had options. he didn’t need to try to make a comeback. HE DIDNT NEED TO FUCKING LIE OR IGNORE THE SHIT HE WAS CALLED OUT ON the reality is, he wanted to come back thinking he could shove it under the rug, was told that no dude, you’re not allowed to be a youtuber anymore. you’re done. you need to move on and went full nuclear. it’s not on anyone’s hands but his own. HES BEEN DOING THIS TO HIMSELF!! But nah man we cant call his shit out bc hell may or may not kill himself. Fuck the other minorities who have the same issues but worse and sometimes BECAUSE of him. This is going to SUCKKKK so bad when other ppl, specifically white gays, are going to weaponize this shit to get away with their stuff.

[khaarl-i]

I went to my local library to charge my phone and found a book that made me think of @autistic-af

“Guide to bohemian cemeteries”

*note: the adjective “český” can mean both “czech“ and “bohemian”, however I scrolled through the book (mainly to look for cemeteries I know) and it focuses on bohemian cemeteries only

[adrianicsea]

i’m too old to beef about it with the majority younger people who use it but To Me the toothpaste flag feels very derivative and disingenuous and like… idk the idea of taking the newly adopted sunset lesbian flag and being like “make it blue and now it’s for boys” feels a little shortsighted to me. like if it’s the flag that GENUINELY feels like home to you, i’m not gonna tell anyone to stop, but i feel like there should at least be an acknowledgment of the toothpaste flag’s origins and why it might not resonate (or even actively rankle) with some gays, particularly older ones.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

listen you can have complicated feelings about historical fiction and the treatment of historical figures that were absolutely horrible disgusting irredeemable people irl, that's an absolutely valid line to draw about fictionalizations of awful people. it's a problem with historical fiction in general because there is always going to be a question of how much real-world trauma and violence you are going to include and what you're going to center in your story. but can y'all stop acting like watching one tv show that includes said historical figures over another is some form of activism that has literally anything to say about your commitment to queer/trans and POC liberation in real life. like brother this is tumblr dot com. put the energy you're wasting on picking fights on here over your favorite fictional characters into something that has actual value for queer/trans and POC liberation in the real world

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Malcolm:

Did not start the Stonewall revolt. There was no one event, but an accumulation of episodes of harassment including multiple arrests (such as Stormé DeLarverie) and strip-searches, which built up into an unleashed mob revolt.

Was not even there when the Stonewall revolt began. He himself says he arrived at about 2am and the fighting and the fire were already well underway.

Was not "trans." he describes himself as a "boy" and a drag queen.

If you're wondering, the religious parallel is the Crucifixion. It's ahistorical, there's no evidence it happened, but it's pushed, as an article of faith, as being "true" in order to fabricate a "debt" owed and an obligation by others to repay that mythical debt.

New York's pride was organized by Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes. Michaels had nothing to do with it.

It's interesting that the Dems' official account believes that gay men and women were not organizing and advocating for their own interests and rights until a drugged out, homeless, prostitute and pedophile pimp drag queen came along. That's what they think the legacy of gay rights and its core values are about.

[yourdailyqueer]

René Rivera (Mario Montez) (deceased)

Gender: Male (she/her in drag)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 20 July 1935 

RIP: 26 September 2013

Ethnicity: Puerto Rican

Occupation: Drag artist, actor

[dragon-spaghetti]

Alright simps come get your juice ✨ based on this by @/gooseworx

(Please click for better quality!!)

[dragandfashions]

Category is: Famous then

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: drag

Sashaying Through Time: The History of Drag (article on Medium).

@vamptember

[amphibious-thing]

I saw RENT (stage show) recently and I have a lot of thoughts about Angel and they’re mostly just that I wish more people understood the historical context behind her character