Drugs are woven with fabrics from American society.
UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST VIA New York Historical Society;Marie Adelina de la Ferrière for Advocates. Via the public domain Fashion Conservatory
Let’s say it flashes while looking at the latest Episode of The golden age. In that case you may have missed the Julian Fellows’ gorgeous ball gown, tiaras and initial drag look in the drawing room conspiracy.
In the fifth episode of this season, Larry Russell (Harry Richardson) and Jack Trotter (Ben Arlers) Celebrating the sale of alarm clocks and rally engagement to Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobsen). For Fellows Space Fans Downton Abbey and Belgraviamost settings are appropriate with prim. However, rather than taking Jack to the hard-feathered gentlemen’s club, Larry takes him to Haymarket. It was a real venue in the late 1800s and was considered New York, the equivalent of the Moulin Rouge in Paris. In addition to female boxing, you may have seen a supple man wearing an elegant female evening dress. It was a rare nod for subculture at the time, but much of the visibility remained on the floor of the room.
Costume coordinator from the Golden Age, Matthew Carlsenone of several female impersonators from “and some other common queer folk” in the episode, and shared her thoughts on this groundbreaking moment.
“As a huge admirer of female impersonator Julian Ertinte, I was thrilled to learn that the production team wanted to showcase this incredibly underrated group in queer history,” Carlsen says Supporters, Referring to an actor from the 1800s who is famous for his blurry gender lines. “It’s very rare for this type of character to be featured in a serious, non-comedy way in historical storytelling, so when asked to portray one of them within a scene, I was even more excited.”
Unfortunately, the moment that features Carlsen and his fellow spoofers is cut significantly, with only one spoofing (played by a fellow designer) Keith Kelly) It was briefly introduced in the scene. Carlsen was unable to comment on the rationale for cutting the vignette, and could speculate that it could have been “due to runtime constraints and limited number of episodes of the season.” Still, he reaffirmed the importance of strange visibility in historical dramas. Golden Age.
“I think it’s very important to express strange history in modern media, especially historical lettering,” Carlsen says. “If we give a particular example of female impersonation at the turn of the century, we see performers who are very well known and respected in modern culture.”
Scene from Guild era On HBO
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This period in American history is known for arranging marriages between a vast mansion and the American “dol princess” and European nobles, but the golden age was a time when drag not only developed but prospered in this country. drag In the golden age, from the first self-proclaimed “drug queens” (more on this) to the highly popular tickets to opera divas and drug balls.
Drugs can be traced back to the ancient world, National GeographicAmerican roots date back to the mid-19th century, as female impersonators were often part of racist minstrel shows. But that The origin of this country May dates back to the last century and drags America’s first recorded politician, not as entertainment, but as a political performance.
Put J. Edgar Hoover aside and give Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornberry and later Earl of Clarendon the best OB.
Portrait of an unknown person, circa 1710
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At the turn of the 18th century, the governors and monarchs of New Jersey and New York Queen Anne (Immortalized in the 2018 film favorite), and Hyde is said to be making the drug public. It is even claimed that the governor held a session of the colonial parliament dressed as a literal representative of the queen who was troubled by the attire of fashionable women.
The paintings of that era, currently held in the collections of the New York Historical Society, were once thought to have elaborate outfits and Grand Dum attitudes as the only visual image present in a diva-like pose.
Brigham Morris Young dressed Madame Patilini with a placard promoting her appearance in Sugar House Ward in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1901.
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By the time Golden age, Drugs, set in the 1880s, were already running mainly in private spaces such as Haymarket. A notable drug icon of the time was Brigham Morris Young, the son of Utah-based Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young. Young, who founded what would become the Church’s Young Men program, was named Madame Patilini and began acting drugs shortly after completing missionary duties in the Hawaiian Islands. From the mid-1880s, Madame Patilini played through parts of Utah and the falsetto was so beautiful that many people were not aware that they were the sons of church leaders.
Still, this did not prevent Young from becoming a successful church leader and drug artist. Young was still playing at the turn of the 20th century. According to the article from Deseret’s night news. Madame Patilini appeared in LDS president and father-in-law Lorenzo Snow, called “Italian Prima Dona,” and has “the ability to maintain a good falsetto voice and female character.”
There are no known photos of Swann, but this may be what he looks like.
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Born in a slave, William Dorsey Swann William, who hosted the first “drug” and secret event in Washington, DC as the first self-proclaimed “Queen of Drugs,” helped create the Swann home, a gathering of once enslaved individuals and drag queens.
According to these events Smithsonianwill later attract the attention of local governments. Swann faced police attacks and arrests. Swann, who was later arrested on charges of running a brothel, refused to get a presidential pardon. But that moment left another historic moment for the book. Because Swann has become the first strange American to protect the rights and dignity of our community at will and without violence. DC local governments were using oppressive measures to stop Swann gatherings in New York, but these events were not just happening, they were thriving.
Enter the Hamilton Lodge Ball.
Participants in the US bee food bowl in May 1960. Almost a century ago, the first Hamilton Lodge Drug Ball was held in Harlem, New York.
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It’s easy to imagine as Larry dragged Jack into the Haymarket, and black queer, trans and gender-extended people were gathering in Harlem. New York Freemanreference As a “seasonal event.” Organized by one of the few African-American brother organizations of the time, Hamilton Lodge celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1869 and held the first recorded drug ball in the United States 20 years before Swann’s infamous political party. Where Queens reigned and the category lived, it was not judged, and the ball was not an underground whisper. By the 1920s, they were portraying thousands of spectators from around town. The working class, mixed with the elites of the Upper East Side, and people of all colours, wanted to witness the sights offered in Harlem’s finest struts, spinning and Full Regalia.
Hamilton Lodgeballs laid the foundation for modern ballroom culture that stretched from the 19th century. Paris is on fire, PoseAnd finally, Tiktok. These were nights when our strange ancestors not only found each other, but also celebrated each other.
Sheet music featuring Julian Ertinge, 1910
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But as Heidi Krum tells her Project Runway Contestants, “One day, you’re there. The next day, you’re out.” This feeling isn’t as accurate as drug performers since the late 1920s. Few things like Julian Ertinge secured Broadway shows and film deals, but decades in a row have changed the tide of popularity among drug and letter moral police Reflux method flexion Control drugs, queer and trans bodies in public and private spaces. The current has started to move again, and the rest is history – or not written yet.
From the heart, drugs are about performance and fashion. But it is also freedom. One night, the janitor could become the duchess. The church choir may be sirens. And often criminalized and marginalized black strange bodies can be respected like royalty.
“Whether it’s Oscar Van Lysin or Queen Charlotte’s butler, we don’t have the opportunity to experience strange characters in historical dramas that feel complicated or authentic, but we’re sanitized to appeal to our target demographics compared to our heterosexual counterparts,” Carlsen says. Golden Age and Bridgeton. “The choice to include a queer storyline regardless of genre should be an aggressive choice, not a Jones dogfight during the streaming series.”
And the positive choice for vision is now more than ever, what we can tilt our tiara.
Source: Advocate.com – www.advocate.com
