#vintage drag

[iridessence]

Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s

[filmauteur]

THE QUEEN (1968) Directed by Frank Simon, Narrated by Flawless Sabrina

[dragarchive]

Katya serving some Celine in October 2007 at The Milky Way bar in Boston

[numnum-num]

David Bowie in the Lützower Lampe, a Berlin Drag Bar, in 1977.

[vintage-sweden]

Theater performance, 1934, Sweden.

[trixiescrown]

Katya at Jacques Cabaret in Boston, 2006. I love these photos so much. Iconic

[katyascrown]

Rockstar Katya in Jacques Cabaret, 2006!

[valenciamidknight]

✨1973/4 Nashville drag queens✨

Photographed by JD Sloan

Found these while looking through the Library of Congress and I’m obsessed! Wanted to share with folks who’d appreciate them too 🤗

[collidepress]

WILLIAM DORSEY SWANN IN DRAG PERFORMS A CAKEWALK IN PARIS BY UNKNOWN (1903)

[n0isy-gh0st]

Finally all the Berliners (and Angel lol) are together! Tabakkatze (top left), Gretel Hansel and La Louisiane (top right), and of course Angel and Irma Von Berber 💅🏻🍾💃🏻

[macbxth-pdf]

Gotta love Harlem and its connection to the black queer experience through the arts.

Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s

[dragarchive]

Katya kinda giving drag Sue Sylvester (as she occasionally likes to do) in 2006, once more at her hometown drag bar, Jacques Cabaret in Boston!

[numnum-num]

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in "Some like it hot" by Billy Wilder (1959)

[vintage-sweden]

University theater performance, 1937, Sweden.

[trixiescrown]

Trixie Mattel in a production of "Warped", 2008 with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. These candids are so lovely.

[countesspetofi]

Just a reminder that the Eltinge Theater is still standing; today it serves as the lobby of the AMC Empire 25 cinema just off Times Square. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest there.

Gorgeous thread this morning on Twitter by @jeffreymarsh!