The problems with confusing trans and drag. Last week, my uncle, a straight man in his 60s, mentioned a show called RuPaul’s Drag Race to me.
There’s no surer sign something has totally hit the cultural mainstream. He began to enthusiastically explain the show’s premise and how ‘convincing’ some of the queens he had seen were, completely unaware that I had been a committed fan of the show since 2009. What I did notice, however, is how the conversation was triggered in his mind: there was an item on television about trans women. □□♀️OÙ ACHETER DES PERRUQUES ? Resolutely fabulous: drag superstars – in pictures. The Drag Scene That Gives the Young, LGBTQ, and Homeless Hope. Gia Marie Love, one of the stars of the new documentary Kiki.
Photo courtesy of Kiki There's a lot worth pausing for, rewinding, and then watching over and over again until the electric charge of the images and the raw dialogue stay with you forever in Sara Jordenö's ballroom documentary Kiki. How dressing in drag made me uncover myself. Can't Drag Us Down: Meet London's Female Queens.