Drag
Drag performers play with gender expression, and ideas of masculinity and femininity. Explore these images of drag from cultural heritage collections across Europe.
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Bildunterschrift: Soirée travestie
Un homme en parodie souriant largement dans un espace étroit. La jambe droite pliée, avec sa main droite, il tient un mur.
Lettering: Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Berliner AIDS-Hilfe und Doris Disse präsentieren: Lydia s Hirsch Casino ... Samstag 23 März 1996. Bears logo of Berliner Aids-Hilfe e. V. (Berlin AIDS-Help Voluntary Association), opening hours, telephone number and directi…
Lettering: The American star "Eltinge"; The American star "Eltinge".
Deux jeunes hommes en parodie. Les deux portent une perruque et des boucles d’oreilles.
Lettering: Summerdown Kate.; An amateur actor poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916. The man is referred to as "Summerdown Kate" and sits in mourning attire in front of a plain backgrou…
Fol. 12r (right) : A man in drag poses side-on. Photograph, 189-.
content description: Journalist Matti Jämsä poses as a mermaid at Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, in 1955. Performers get dressed before the show.
School Theatricals Lead to £50 A Week Offer x000D Master Bobby Lehman a 13 year old boy whose clever impersonation of a girl has obtained him a music hall contract at £50 a week_x000D_ Playing the part of a girl in some school theatricals at St Paul Minne…
Men 's parade at the Dartford Carnival in Kent .x000D 1939 .x000D
Un homme assis en travestisme - et trois quarts sur la photo de droite - fume une cigarette en souriant.
Programma: 23 juli: Paco en travestie act wedstrijd.
Fol. 12r (left) : A man in drag poses wearing an elaborate dress. Photograph, 189-.