![]() Today another Ru – Ru Paul leads the latest drag queen entertainment sensation in RuPaul’s reality show “Drag Race”. So Divine shaved his hair, painted on Joan Crawford fake eyebrows and squeezed himself into a Jayne Mansfield’s cast-off dress. And in Devine’s view if they were going to look different why not “own it”. Divine’s Drag look evolved as an antithesis to mainstream, conservative fashion of the day demanding why gay people should look the same as straight people. Acts like Danny La Rue cannot be compared to those that grew up in the 1960’s counter culture like “drag queen of the century” the larger and more delicious than life – Devine. This form of female impersonation was about as safe and non- threatening as it gets and took itself very seriously. Yet by 1972 the highest paid entertainer in Britain was Danny La Rue, a female impersonator who single-handedly turned cross dressing into mainstream family entertainment – appearing on prime-time television adored by blue-rinse Grandmas and entertaining another Queen at the Royal Variety Performance. If, as many would have you believe, it was a drag queen that threw the first punch in 1969 in New York’s Greenwich Village, it was a blow that triggered the gay rights movement. ![]() Glamorous, fabulous and often outrageous Drag Queens do more than just blur the lines between men and women – they draw lines all of their own. I wanted to find out the history or Drag and also how it influences us today. Lately I have found myself watching every season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Im not ashamed! The show really made me realise I knew nothing before about the art of Drag and how fashion influenced it is.
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