Have you ever dressed in drag?

I am male and I haven't dressed in drag, but I would like to.

One halloween in college I shaved my everything, did my hair up nice, and wore a leather bustier, garters, and heels. Funny thing is, I looked good. Unsettlingly good, according to several friends both male and female alike.

I wrote my girlfriend at the time a couple years ago looking for pictures, but she couldn't find any. They'll turn in a box one day, and then I will share.

I was a cheerleader for the powderpuff game senior year.

Seems easier for a guy to do a convincing lady than a lady to do a convincing guy, don't you think? This always seemed unfair to me.

maybe the ladies are so convincing you don't even notice

i once dressed in drag (dress, wig, makeup, large purse full of sex toys) to perform maggie estep's "sex goddess of the western hemisphere" to a full bar

maggie estep

OH SHIT I'd forgotten this person's entire existence until just now.

They'll turn in a box one day, and then I will share you political ambitions will be shattered...

I was convincing enough to pull a gay lad who shrieked when he groped my "bulge" and pulled out a sock.

These days I just look like some mad german Hawkwind roadie...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2168095871_1f966b97ff.jpg

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So at lol college somehow I was persuaded to go to a Rocky Horror showing in the full getup, due to my remarkable resemblance to Tim Curry...

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v313/49/40/761935322/n761935322_3912071_8499.jpg

Rocky Horror with Gary Numan as Frank...

i think there's a big difference between a dude wearing lady clothes and full-on drag tbh. i've worn makeup & wigs & dresses all at the same time but it doesn't feel right to call what i did 'drag'

That's true enough only if you consider trans-sexuals to be "in drag"

Otherwise, what *is* drag?

what drag queens (kings) do?

as a distinct species from transvestites, transgenders, & transsexuals.

Yeah, 'drag' to me has connotations of parody and pantomime, which distinguishes it from 'cross-dressing'.

Oh, look! I found those pictures!

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/fishyfishy.jpg

Yeah, 'drag' to me has connotations of parody and pantomime

I see what you're getting at, but you make it sound like blackface. It's neither parody nor pantomime. I think you mean camp.

Ledge, I want to fuck your manpussy. You are gorgeous.

omg Kate, A+++ !

A bit butch for my tastes, but ok.

;)

Yeah, 'drag' to me has connotations of parody and pantomime

I see what you're getting at, but you make it sound like blackface. It's neither parody nor pantomime. I think you mean camp.

Uh, I dunno. I don't tend to associate pantomimes with blackface. I do associate them with men dressed as women and women dressed as boys, in a way that has elements of comedy. Which 'drag', to me, always does.

I think drag queen and drag king acts always involve a certain amount of exaggerating stereotypical modes of gendered behaviour, but it doesn't necesarily have to be done as comedy.

Anyway, you shouldn't take the word "drag" in the poll question too seriously. I'm not asking if you've ever done a proper drag queen/king act, merely if you've ever dressed fully as the other gender.

xp to kenan, o_O

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emil.y: I should clarify that when I say "you make it sound like blackface" I do not in any way want to invoke the mighty ILX instant-thread-derail tactic of calling someone racist, or even to morally equate the two things. I think I just balked at the word "parody," which makes it sound less affectionate than I believe it is. I feel like... hmm... how can I put it. The expression is primarily of womanhood, of a strong, prominent female side, and genuine female identification. Perhaps the difference is that "drag" is done as theater, is performed, and transvestitism is lived in.

ledge: Sorry.

See, I think the problem is that although I appreciate that (a lot of) drag tends to be done with affection, and yes, as a way to express some kind of identification with womanhood, it says absolutely nothing to me about my experiences as an actual woman, and the extremes of stereotyping it goes to do strike me as parodic. I don't particularly mean this to be a negative thing, but it is (usually) so far into caricature that I can't remove parody from the equation.

As I say, this is my conception of 'drag', which is very very very far away from my conception of cross-dressing, transvestitism, or transexualism.

I'm not one to argue. I'm not a transvestite, nor a drag queen, nor even gay. Certainly I'm not a woman. So really, I know shit on shit.

I suppose the line I'm drawing in my head is between those bizarre and convincing drag shows you catch at 1am in New Orleans, and "To Wong Foo."

i think 'like blackface' might have been a fairly worthwhile call; blackface performance had a lot more dimensions to it than ridicule. obviously blackface is/was poisoned/poisonous in a buncha ways that drag isn't. otoh female impersonation was quite often a part of the 19th-century minstrel show, and not just in a pantomime-dame way, either

(otoh there were a lot of black minstrel show performers, and i can't quite work around the idea of women dressing in drag as women) (insert gender studies degree here)

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i've dressed in men's clothes before, but it was for my job at nordstrom. so it doesn't really count--it's not like i bound my tits or stuffed my pants or anything. i fucking hated wearing a tie though. HATED.

i wouldn't ever be interested in trying to do drag, partially because i'd be afraid that i'd look too convincing as a man, in a bad way. i'm insecure.

which is weird, because i know (female) people that occasionally do drag and look really hot--maybe it would take a confidence that i lack. or something.

I once went to a (M/F) wedding where the dress for the reception was "formal drag." It was kind of fantastic to see, although I was unconvincing.

Thing that blew my little mind in 1992: going to Wigstock in Tompkins Square Park and seeing a handful of biological women in "drag" as women. (It's possible to do that in a way that's not so possible for bio-men to be "drag kings.")

kenan your photo is truly incredible.

That's not me, btw. That's a screenshot of Graham Chapman from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Lest anyone be confused.

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WELL.

Indeed.

i fucking hated wearing a tie though. HATED.

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So, if we would take the numbers to be representative, this would mean 52% of ILXors have dressed in drag. And out of the ones who haven't, 12% would like to. Great results!

I went to a birthday party with a drag theme, thrown mostly by lesbian women, so I took an eyeliner pencil and painted on a John Waters-type moustache.

Are you a girl, or was that a case of a guy being a drag king?

i intend to be a big-assed grandma for halloween tbh

t/s: exploring one's sexuality vs coopting gay culture

TS 2009 vs 2014 more like

I've had my eyes done to humour girlfriends is about it