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Nouns to Know

David LeBarron / History of Drag / Nouns to Know

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NOUNS TO KNOW

People, places and things
to look up, google and think about:

Tennessee Williams
Glass Menagerie
Stanislavsky
Bukowski
Turkey feather boas
Glitter
Barbara Stanwyck
Rosalind Russell
gender spoof
Picasso
Dali
The show must go on!
Nederlander
cultural appropriation
Fierce
Tuck/Untucked
Ru Paul
Thespis
Titanic
4th wall
Places
Cancer Cancer
Pisces
Imperial Courts
Laws against the gays
a delicious cock
Empress
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Stonewall
Heritage Pride Parade
Ye Gods and little fishes! Ye Gods and little fishes!
Wonder Woman
Boy George
triple threat triple threat
Pagliacci
Vesti La Guibba
Lypsinka
Cher
Dark Lady (clap clap)
Chastity/Chaz
Charles Busch
Mae West
Ethel Merman Ethel Merman
Aunt Selma
Kate Smith
Bessie Smith
Pati Smith
Jaclyn Smith
The Fresh prince of Belle Air
Giuliani
Liza
Lorna
Nancy Reagan
Courtney Love
Madonna
Britney
Shakira
Miley
Bette Borne
Bloo Lips Bloo Lips
Formika
Sherry
Mona Foot
Jackie Beat
Coco
Misty & Sabre in Plush Life
Constance
Dick’s Bar
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant
Divine
Marsha P Johnson
Berlin between WWI and II
Advocate Magazine
Lauren Bacall
Pink Triangle Pink Triangle Pink Triangle
Dachau
Drag vs stealth
Vicissitudes
Cisgendered
Dan Savage
specist
Jackie 60
tripping balls
go-go boots
History of Western Civilization History of Western Civilization
Hells Angels
Louvre
CEO of the multi-verse
Julian Eltinge
silicon assholes
botox frozen faces
vaudeville
Belle Epoch
drag balls of the Belle Epoch
Oscar Wilde
Salome
Charles Darwin in Patagonia
Salle Wagram
drag kings
Champs-Elysees
Yentl
Molly House
Drag balls of NY
Paris is Burning
“Butch queen, first time in drag!”
Harlem Renaissance
Walk
Chin
Upstate New York
as in filed with hippies
Southern drag
Queer queen of Iran
CBGB’s Gallery
Boiler Room
1869
sodomy vs. sodomite
should have put a ring on it
Milton Berle
Dame Edna
50-60s cross dressing straights
McCarthy McCarthy
Freud
bro-jobs
a-sexual gays
Bi pride
Ardipithecus
Hubba Hubba
Fruits
cruising
later a film starring Al Pacino
Hetero normative
Shakespeare
Women on stage
The bend and snap
anal anal
Pliocene
40,00 years ago
Tipping is not a city in China
Commedia dell’arte
Renaissance!
Michelangelo
Drag theatre troupes!
Plush Life
Campers
Cockettes
booger drag
Knights of the Middle Ages
Thomas fucking Aquinas
douche bag
Working girls
Mac
Wet ‘n Wild
Drag Strip 66
Man in a suit
Thick as Thebes
Ancient Rome and Greece bureaucracy
Tail swishers and birdies
Hercules/Herakles
Tiresias
Zeus
Dionysus
The Hijra
Kwan Yin
Aku
The Australian Rainbow Serpent
Judy Garland
Thor
Xochipilli
Berdache
Genocide
2-spirits
2-spirits
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Little Dancer
Woman at half door
schlepped
DNA DNA
Déjà vu Déjà vu

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