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I LOVE THIS POST.My best friend was also a peoarssionfl drag queen in the 90s. I always felt special to hang out with Helena and watch her get ready (though mightily grateful I didn't have to deal with all that she did), and I LOVED watched her perform. I was shocked and horrified when my friend "killed" Helena, though I understood why: he got tired of spending more time and money on a stage creation than on his own his life, however difficult and disappointing that life might be.(I just noticed, drag and grad have the same letters.) that is exactly the sort of silly coincidence I notice and delight in. :-)And I was aware of the rampant lostness sprawled out there all around me. It's not, I realized, a moral thing. It's not the casual attitude toward sex, the boys walking around in their undies, the alcohol, the rampant materialism. Those are all just symptoms. What it is, is a knowledge thing. It's the not being quite sure who you are, or what your purpose is in life, or where you are going. It's looking at the material surface of things, and mistaking it for the spiritual heart of things. It's being disconnected from family, from faith. (Partly because so many of us have been excommunicated from all those things!)this is a wise and useful insight.I also realized, however, that of all the things the gay community has going for it, it is the drag queens. They are not part of the problem of lostness, they are part of the solution.I agree with this. Even if many drag queens move on from it, you can see how it works as a "fierce" claiming of self and the right to expression.And can I add that Goran looks amazing--I can only imagine how gorgeous his persona was in her heyday!
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Daneille
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16 december 2014, 10:47:54
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