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Portfolio : Photography by Brian Lantelme
"Drag queens are living
testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want
them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be.
Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood.
They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to
keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for not-too-close
inspection. ... I'm fascinated by boys who spend their lives trying to be
complete girls, because they have to work so hard -- doubletime -- getting rid
of all the tell-tale male signs and drawing in all the female signs. I'm
not saying it's the right thing to do, I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm not
saying it's not self-defeating and self-destructive, and I'm not saying it's not
possibly the single most absurd thing a man can do with his life.
What I'm saying is, it is very hard work.
You can't take that away from them.
It's hard work to look like the complete opposite of what nature made you
and then to be an imitation woman of what was only a fantasy woman in the first
place. When they took the movie
stars and stuck them in the kitchen, they weren't stars any more -- they were
just like you and me. Drag queens
are reminders that some stars still aren't just like you and me."
-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of
Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
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Click to view Sally's Hideaway - A Pictorial History
