I was center square from 1969 to 1978, during which I perfected the art of the zing as well as a crippling cocaine addiction. Bea Arthur was responsible for both.
Ah, that old debate. As sexuality becomes more and more fluid and jeans become tighter and tighter, it’s hard out there for a gay to discern a plain old, common, douchebag hipster from a boy-humping, mustache-riding, disco-dancing, Streisand-listening friend of Dorothy. In reality, the only thing truly separating one from the other is a few too many PBRs and a dimly-lit bar. However, for sartorial’s sake, let’s do a quick rundown of 10 articles these two groups have in common.
While there are certainly more instances of men dressed as or portraying women in film than the alternative, those depictions are not always positive. Either played for laughs or for fear, Hollywood has a rich history of sexual exploitation, but the following films offer more than just a boy in a dress.
In the first of this two-part series, we explore the depiction of androgyny in cinema starting with women who skirt the line between masculine and feminine.
What better way to wrap up our music month and our Videography series than with the woman who's a haute couture composite of the great pop divas who have come before her. In only five short years, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has become one of the biggest icons in the world, melding the worlds of fashion and music like no one since Madonna. And while the comparisons are endless, Lady Gaga stands on her impossibly high tranny heels as an innovator in her own right. Fashion got a shot of adrenaline when the Lady took the stage and while her off-the-wall looks have gotten even more off the wall over time -- and her copycats have gotten even more brazen -- she's come a long way from just dancing with her pants off.
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