#trans drag

[gor3sigil]

One day, I'll talk in depth about how it felt to be the only trans drag king in my local scene surrounded by radfem cis kings who only wanted to make fun of masculinity and how it led to me giving up because I faced more transphobia and misgendering in the few nights I performed, by cis queers, than ever in my life.

It was AWFUL. I just never wanted to perform anymore because the TOXICITY of it all was disgusting.

And I love drag with all my heart, but when you get she/her'd IN DRAG KING, spend your time being belittled because you're a drag king (because let's face it drag kings don't get the credit they deserve) by other performers or because you're transmasc by cis drag kings and you can't find any place in the scene if you do anything else than mocking masculinity, fuck it. I hope I can perform in the future but it won't be in this scene.

[ndnbutch]

took my clothes off to liquid smooth by mitski at the all-sapphic drag show. as one does!

[pingintech]

there is a lot of exclusionary and divisive trans discourse on this website these days in the midst of it all it can be hard for some people to remember we are all one community so im taking some time out today to make a shout out specifically to drag royalty

✨drag culture positivity✨

but first!!!

lets talk about the history of drag!!! drag is fundamentally trans

long before the term transgender was coined and even before the term transsexual was coined the term transvestite was coined and the trans community slowly grew over time from the 20-80s it was explicitly a community for transvestites and transsexuals (transsexual was coined in the 60s) but it was HEAVILY segregated across social class and racial lines

the people who got official diagnoses could afford hormones and surgery and were accepted into trans mags were overwhelmingly white upper class trans people and poc were gatekept from using terms to identify themselves like transvestite transsexual or transgenderist

so ballroom culture grew as an underground queer counter culture explicitly for black and latinx trans people instead of trans women they were drag queens at drag balls instead of transvestites there were stage queens instead of transsexuals/transgenderists there were street queens

the queer community we have today with pride parades and pride month is because of marsha p johnson a black trans woman and sylvia rivera a latina sex worker trans woman we owe our community to trans people of color and the drag community

in the 2010s there was a pretty important schism in the trans community trans as an umbrella term used to be for transsexuals transvestites transgender people drag royalty crossdressers nonbinary people and intersex people and trans with an asterisk was often used to denote that trans describes many labels under our umbrella there are good and bad reasons why it is no longer used but in modern times people often treat trans as if it means only and exclusively (binary) transgender people and i think its important we remember the asterisk

✨drag is trans*✨

transcending binary gender expression and performance expressing the constraints of rigid binary gender is a fundamentally queer expression of gender and it is no coincidence that when conservatives go after trans people they loop drag queens in that as well because a lot of the issues drag royalty experience are also trans issues and drag is still predominantly populated by trans people of color to this day

drag queens your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag kings your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

androgyny queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag queens kings and things of color your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

black queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

latinx queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

indigenous queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

aapi queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

jewish queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

romani queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

muslim queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

queens kings and things from the global south your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

disabled queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

bio queens and bio kings your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

transdrag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

intersex drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

nonbinary drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

two spirit queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

crossdressing drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

stage drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

fat queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

multigender drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag performers who use drag as a medium within which they can explore and question their gender your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

genderfluid drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

agender drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

genderflux drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

genderqueer drag queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

genderfuck queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

glamour queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

cosplay queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

comedy queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

club queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

goth queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

tranimal queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

activessle queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

touring queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

baby queens kings and things your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community and we are so proud of you for taking our first steps on a journey thats all your own

drag designers your art deserves to be seen and appreciated and you belong in our community

drag singers you art deserves to be heard and experienced and you belong in our community

drag composers and musicians your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag choreographers and lip synchers your work deserves to be seen and appreciated and you belong in our community

drag burlesque performers you art deserves to be seen and experienced and you belong in our community

drag mamas you uplift raise and support those in our community you create community and you are an absolutely deserve to belong and be recognized

drag artists you entertain educate and enlighten us your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

drag artists you involve yourself in the community help our children and fight for our rights often for no recognition your voice deserves to be heard and you belong in our community

[sagegreenyaps]

Transfems who discover their transfemininity through drag and femboy cultures, there is nothing wrong with you. You're not lesser; finding yourself through those avenues is not "dirty," "fake," "fetishistic," or any other worth-diminishing descriptor.

Latrice Royale motivates your transition? Awesome!

Your first experience being able to wear traditionally feminine clothing, like skirts, was through emulating femboys you saw on TikTok? Fuck yeah!

Performing femininity while identifying as a man, an identity traditionally dichotomized into a masculine niche, has helped you realize you weren't a man at all? No shame in that!

You deserve to be able to take pride in all parts of your egg cracking, in all parts of your transition.

Your gender is yours. I mean it.

[callmeroygbiv]

gothposting again

[jack-of-starss]

La Cage Aux Folles "Hanna", played by a trans man at the Croswell Opera House.

Defy stereotypes. Never stop doing what you love. Support your local theater.

[sebby1986]

Hello tumblr!!! Do you like my drag performance? :D

[movingnortharchive]

St. Salvatore & Eden Spaghetti at the drag show | Dundee, Scotland, November 2023

📸: Konica Pop AF + Kodak Gold