Dangerous Minds has a splendid collection of vintage photos of drag kings from back in the day when “the simple act of walking down a public street dressed in clothing associated with the gender you were not assigned at birth could get you arrested.”
Drag queens get most of the mainstream-culture attention, but as these pictures—and a couple of videos!—show, “non-male bodied drag and gender performers” have been “fighting the good fight” for decades.
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