Catch Up Post: Drag Queens vs Faux Queens?

Panti Bliss - By ConorRonoc

There is a long tradition of men dressing up as women stretching back at least to Ancient Greek times as women were not allowed on stage, something that was perpetuated across the centuries to various degrees until gradually going out of fashion so to speak.

In modern times we still see men dressed as women in Pantomime and various stars such as Paul O'Grady as Lily savage. Plus of course the wonderful Alistair Sims as the headmistress in the original and nequealed St Trinians films from the fifties and sixties.



However I was not aware of the existence of Drag Queens (Faux Queens, Diva Queens) played by women until a report appeared in The Daily Telegraph (Saturday 31st March 2018):

As drag queens go, Lacey Lou and Georgie Bee love nothing more than dressing up in garish women’s clothes, slapping on layers of make-up and showing off to their adoring fans. But, they are among a growing number of performers in Britain who are very different to the traditional crossing dressing acts.

Unlike men who work as over the top female impersonators, Lacey Lou and Georgie Bee are actually women camping it up as women.

And resistance to this new breed of live performers is coming from unlikely adversaries - male drag queens who fear their female colleagues have a very unfair advantage. Worse still, it is even being seen as an example of cultural appropriation, the adoption or use of elements of one culture by another.

Photo: By HolyMcGrail

Apparently Drag Queen Supremo,RuPaul has a show on US TV which he says is for men only:

...he declared that drag is a male only sport and women would most likely be barred from competing on his show, which is also broadcast in the UK.

He has claimed that women drag artists lack “danger and irony”, in part because when men - invariably gay men - dress outrageously in women’s clothes they are openly rejecting masculinity.

According to Lacey Lou there's a lot of misogyny in the gay community and she rejects the idea that not only can't she play a Drag Queen but rejects the notion this is a "men only" zone. 

“A person’s biological sex or gender identity should not prohibit or inhibit their participation in an art form that mocks gender.”

Perhaps the men think a real woman would be unfair competition?  Good luck to the girls I say. Perhaps some men should try out for Drag Kings, I see no reason why.

Photo: By David Shankbone

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Catch up Posts are an occasional series of posts designed to catch up on items of interest whilst I was in hospital and unable to blog.

Celebrating with Madonna

Madonna is the worlds biggest selling ever female artist and she's been around since the eighties with almost non-stop hits. Like many I was a big fan, especially in the early years and can remember "dancing" to these songs in my younger years....

Mags is 60 today, the same age as me, but looks a whole lot better than I do!

I can't really add to the hype elsewhere in the media but here's a couple of tracks I like that hope you like or remember.

I wonder if fellow blogger Phil BC at All that Is Solid will be joining in the celebrations? (His music taste is slightly better than his politics...but always worth a read to keep me on my toes)!

When Corbyn wanted to expel the Jewish organisation from the Labour Party

Whilst being interviewed on television about his views of the Israel/Palestine conflict he claimed that he wanted people to "talk" so there could be peace. That was why he attended the Palestinian Conference that's got him into hot water over the weekend.

Corbyn claimed he had " devoted his whole life to" peace between the Palestinians and Israel.

However evidence shows quite the opposite. He backed a motion in 1984 that wanted to kick Poale Zion (now the Jewish Labour Movement) out of the Labour Party. Further he wanted the TUC to break it's links with Histadrut, the Israeli Trade Union Organisation.



How is he to talk for "peace" when he excommunicates one side of the conflict from the equation. His whole life has been to support organisations and movements that want to wipe Israel off the map and shows no regards for the self-determination of the Jewish people.

In those days the left supported every, well almost every so-called" Liberation" organisation going. The exceptions being Israel and Tibet.

Fast forward to today and although he maintains relationships with his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah, both of whom have genocidal outlooks on the Jewish state (the latter backed by Iran who want to "wipe Israel off the map".

Of course Corbyn didn't mind working for and appearing on Press TV, the propaganda channel for the Iranian Clerics.

Simply put Corbyn has NEVER worked for peace. He turned down an invitation to go to visit the Holocaust museum in Israel yet has regularly shared platforms with Holocaust deniers.

Corbyn simply cannot be trusted. Full stop!

Morning Star report shows Corbyn is lying.

This article from the Morning Star by Jeremy Corbyn shows he himself talked about "laying wreaths" on the graves of those killed by Mossad in 1991.

Erm.... Terrorists. Corbyn is Lying.

Sectariana on a Sunday

The tiny Communist Party of Great Britain is well known for it's weekly rag the Weekly Worker. Despite their protestations most readers just dip in for the sectarian information for which the "paper" is infamous. However of late they have become rather less interesting and to be honest more than boring.

Their "entry" into "Left Unity" (anybody remember them?) Only really famous for the singing contribution of one of their more deranged and self centred comrades! Pages devoted to that bored the pants off even the most intrepid "Trot Spotters". (yeah I know they're not trots but it'll do as a description for now so no OTT comments pointing this out....).

However with the rise of Corbynism the little Communist Scout Troop has half entered the Labour Party and set up its own jolly front organisation the Labour Party Marxists. Bless. One of their apparent entrants is Lee Rock who was (not sure if he still is) an "activist"  in the PCS union.

Lee, a well known member of the CPGB, has been suspended from the Labour Party for vociferously arguing for (wait for it), the right to masturbate at work. Let that sink in a minute. Then let the shock turn into laughter and then disbelief.

Priorities skewered and somewhat ridiculous.

Here's the suspension letter:

 

Musical Interlude - Cry On My Guitar by Miles Kane

It's been a few days since I last blogged so here is a piece of music that I have heard for the very first time today on Radio 2 in Zoe Ball's show. Not only is it a good song (although the video is a bit distracting) I found it reminded me of Marc Bolan/T-Rex. I'd be interested in your opinion.

This single is taken off his latest album, Coup de Grace, which was only released yesterday I have discovered. So time to go out and get a copy might try for a 45 rpm vinyl single or even the album once I've explored more of Miles material on You Tube.




Miles Kane Official Website: www.mileskane.com

There's some in every community....

In every community there are minorites, tiny groupsules of those that choose a path that is both unrepresentative and potentially dangerous to the community itself.

In the Jewish community there are those on the far-left like the self serving and rather rumbustious fools like Tony Greenstein, the politically illiterate like Jackie Walker and the tiny pro-Corbyn group of communist types and their allies in Jewish Voice for Labour.

The JVL is so small (barely 60 members) it' founders had to send emails to beg people to take up positions in the group. There are a number of other similar organisations which are essentially run by the same 6 people (probably working in the same back room).

Here's a little chart to show how this works out:

It shows how the so called anti-Semites Zionists get cover from a few of what Lenin would have described as "useful fools".