Showing posts with label gender illusionist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender illusionist. Show all posts

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Classic Female Impersonation History

Ephemeral recently ran a post featuring famous cross dressers.
The post featured one of the all time popular female impersonators and dare I say actresses of his era Julian Eltinge.
Here's an excerpt:
"All but forgotten today, Julian Eltinge was one of the highest paid actors in the early 1900s.
His shtick: He played all his roles in drag.
But unlike most drag queens, who present a caricature of a woman, Eltinge was a “gender illusionist” pretending, with a wink, to actually be a woman." and of course you can go here for more!

It is Right When you Know it Is

  Image from Caroline Herman on UnSplash. Some have asked me over the years, when did I know it was the right time for me to leave my closet...