It’s honestly one of my biggest pet peeves when any form of pride is watered down to just drag shows. A lot of people genuinely can’t tell the difference between drag and trans.
To vent for a sec, I’m a trans circus performer, I’ve never written a drag act, yet I frequently get called a drag artist because I’m trans on stage
Absolutely vent, even rant a bit if you have the need 🫂
That tracks with my experiences, the details like somehow cis people are better about gendering drag artists correctly than transgender audience members or how people just assume I like drag. I believe most of them think we’re some kind of kayfabe drag artists.
I like how RuPaul says it:
“You’re born naked and everything else is drag”
Transgender =/= Drag
Freshly extracted I was still transgender.
Cis allies: “I’m gonna say something invalidating like it’s a positive thing! And fuck you if you try to educate me!”
It’s honestly one of my biggest pet peeves when any form of pride is watered down to just drag shows. A lot of people genuinely can’t tell the difference between drag and trans.
To vent for a sec, I’m a trans circus performer, I’ve never written a drag act, yet I frequently get called a drag artist because I’m trans on stage
Absolutely vent, even rant a bit if you have the need 🫂
That tracks with my experiences, the details like somehow cis people are better about gendering drag artists correctly than transgender audience members or how people just assume I like drag. I believe most of them think we’re some kind of kayfabe drag artists.
We need more queer spaces without tourists.