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A library in Ontario hosted a drag queen story hour last weekend, and like homophobic clockwork, there were the anti-LGBTQ+ protesters. Only this time, they were met by the strongest force on earth: Butches.
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pretty weird of gomag dot com to use a more "presentable" photo instead of the real photo of 'Wind Sisters' bikers that was literally linked in the original CTV news article that's linked in the text
my utopia
The drag queen from this photo has spoken up about the photo.
I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.
The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
my utopia
The drag queen from this photo has spoken up about the photo.
I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.
The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
Happy birthday, Sylvia Rivera! (July 2, 1951)
A pioneering figure in the gay and trans liberation movement, Sylvia Rivera was born in New York City and became an orphan early in life after her mother died and her father abandoned the family. Rejected by her biological family, Rivera lived on the streets as a homeless youth and underage sex worker before being taken in by New York's drag queen community. She became active within that community and organized with the Gay Liberation Front in the wake of the Stonewall riot. A close friend of Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera worked with Johnson on a number of initiatives, such as helping to found Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries and pushing for passage of the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York State. She fought for inclusion of drag queens and trans people in the LGBT movement, despairing at the movement's assimilationist orientation at the turn of the century. She died in 2002 of complications from liver cancer.
"I am Sylvia Rivera. Ray Rivera left home at the age of 10 to become Sylvia. And that's who I am."
Happy birthday, Sylvia Rivera! (July 2, 1951)
A pioneering figure in the gay and trans liberation movement, Sylvia Rivera was born in New York City and became an orphan early in life after her mother died and her father abandoned the family. Rejected by her biological family, Rivera lived on the streets as a homeless youth and underage sex worker before being taken in by New York's drag queen community. She became active within that community and organized with the Gay Liberation Front in the wake of the Stonewall riot. A close friend of Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera worked with Johnson on a number of initiatives, such as helping to found Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries and pushing for passage of the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York State. She fought for inclusion of drag queens and trans people in the LGBT movement, despairing at the movement's assimilationist orientation at the turn of the century. She died in 2002 of complications from liver cancer.
"I am Sylvia Rivera. Ray Rivera left home at the age of 10 to become Sylvia. And that's who I am."
Drag queen and actor Divine posing alongside Christine Jorgensen at the first annual party of the Limelight disco in Atlanta | 1981
For those who have trouble reading that:
Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.”
You’re right!
From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.
He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses.
William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.
He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.
When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.
Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!
William Dorsey Swann is the original queen, the original drag mother, the original activist. Tell his story!
I assume these have been posted, but friends, you HAVE to see some more photos from this shoot:
Sadie Sadie The Rabbi Lady — Jewish drag queen, activist and founding member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
ph: Jean-Baptiste Carhaix | 1983
Sometimes I get so sick of seeing drag queen reaction gifs like y'all just love the over emotional caddy stereotype of amab femininity a creepy amount and it makes me so uncomfortable, every time a cis guy dawns drag and acts like an over sexualized air headed petty sexually predatory stereotype a trans woman out there gets a little more uncomfortable with herself cause she knows that’s how people will view her if she comes out