Word: rupaul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...positive not poisonous" and "St. Sebastian: the first fag in the military." That pain motivates our anger in an unjust world. I hate that our posters embarrass some closeted people but a) don't assume other closet queens don't love them (I still have my poster of RuPaul giving the camera the finger from my middle school locker), b) don't assume closeted people don't engage in naughty sex acts themselves, and c) being closeted or speaking in the name of the closeted doesn't necessarily authorize the abjection of people who have different sex lives than yours...
...went from George to Christine Jorgensen, journalists have periodically revisited the subject in tones varying from the dryly medical to the hotly sensational. But today many forms of gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. In the past five years, several movies, plays, tabloid shows and famous cross-dressers like RuPaul have moved drag from the fringes of gay culture to prime time. Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse...
...same, some of Goldin's frontiers are well on their way to being settled. Thanks to Calvin Klein's skanky ad campaigns and the Broadway musical Rent, the same cast of dog-eared guys and Avenue B girls are everywhere. And drag? Never heard of it. Only kidding. RuPaul. Wong Foo. Switch on Good Morning America and there's Lady Chablis, the transvestite from John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In a cooking segment, no less...
...only taken the LADY CHABLIS two years to move from the suburbs of contempt to the metropolis of fame. John Berendt anointed her America's second most famous drag queen (after RuPaul) when he wrote of her in his best-selling blockbuster Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, soon to be a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Several TV appearances and lots of press later, the belle of Savannah, Georgia, is doing what all divas of a certain age do: releasing memoirs. Hiding My Candy doesn't just relate Chablis' life, but also offers recipes, a lexicon...
...role reversal tantamount to that of Rupaul, the Crimson defense has replaced the offense as the more reliable unit. The Harvard "D" has allowed an average of 15 points per game over the past two games--a dramatic improvement from the 23 points it averaged over the first five games of the season...