Vintage Photos Of
Drag Queens |
RuPaul’s
popular reality competition show, RuPaul’s Drag Race, helped bring drag queens
further into the mainstream consciousness.
Starbucks
recently released its first LGBT-driven commercial featuring drag queens. The
Tony-winning musical, Kinky Boots, about a factory that manufactures shoes for
drag queens, is a popular Broadway show. Even Ru herself calls drag “mainstream”
now.
We
acknowledge that not every person in the photos below is a “drag queen,” and
that there’s a big difference between a transgender person, a transvestite and
a drag queen. A transgender person is someone who does not identify with their
assigned sex and would most likely not want to be referred to as a “drag
queen.” A transvestite is a cisgender male who enjoys wearing women’s clothing.
A drag queen tends to be someone who dresses in women’s clothing more for
performance or entertainment.
We can’t
tell you how many of the subjects in the following photos identify, but we can
say with certainty that these people took a major risk by dressing this way
during less tolerant times. The images start in the 1800s and continue through
the 1950s.
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