DRAG..HIS STORY MONTH

 

With the holidays now behind us, it's time for the Mistress to bring on Drag History Month!!!!

We took a hiatus from this last year, so I thought as usual in January, we'd bring it back since I have a lot of new friends and readers. Although it isn’t “official” in the same way that LGBTQ History Month is, I think it’s a great idea and should be celebrated internationally. What better way to celebrate? But drag and cross-dressing developed out of something totally different to the stage – religion. Male priests and shamans in ancient times would dress as women to act as “wives” to the deity they worshipped. In a way theatre derives from this religious “acting”, and directly as a result of this ,women were banned from the stage until well into the 2^nd millennium. The Ancient Greek even had a God of Wine who condoned cross-dressing, Dionysius as the patron of theatre, party, wine and transvestites!!!

The development from these ancient cross-dressing priests into the modern drag kings and queens is very long and complicated, so I won’t go into it now. But there’s a danger that some confusion could arise, because not all cross-dressing activity can be called drag. When I was active, when done for the night,,the drag came off fast!!!! To many people drag conjures up images of camp, often outrageous, personalities like Lily Savage, Lady Bunny, Divine and RuPaul.

This type of drag is the main focus for celebration by the Logo channel, as well as highlight its many different forms – from pantomime, like Widow Twank to cabaret, like the great Ricky Rene and Danny La Rue, from traditional musical performance  like Hinge and Bracket and Jim Bailey to public drag persona like the Jewel Box Revue and Divine, the drag community is as varied as any other and there’s a lot to celebrate. The month will bring some reposts and some new post, while my most of my usual fare will take a backseat. so....

 

grab a girlfriend..

 

and a cock-a-tail...

 

get relaxed...

 

and feel free to reach me with any questions on the Casa hot line....

 

well, either in my sidebar via email, or in the comments sections!

 

This month won't get any queenly than this!