->-bleeped-<- singer Conchita Wurst is Kim Kardashian look-alike in Vienna

[Natasha]

->-bleeped-<- singer Conchita Wurst is Kim Kardashian look-alike in Vienna

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/->-bleeped-<--kim-kardashian-lookalike-article-1.1355533
5/27/13
By Rheana Murray / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Conchita, who identifies as a female, nailed Kardashian's long locks, curled to a glossy perfection atop the skin-tight getup. But Conchita, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, lacked the mom-to-be's crazy curves and sported a pitch-black beard.

[MaidofOrleans]

These attention whores are not doing the trans community any favors...

[cannedrabbit]

These attention whores are not doing the trans community any favors...

I thought drag queens (and kings) were supposed to be more theatrical? Does the trans community as a whole feel this way about drag queens, that they hurt the public's view of transsexualism? Please excuse my nativity as I am still fairly new to the trans community.

[Jamie D]

"Conchita Wurst" (Tom Neuwirth)  has been the subject of topics here before.  She is part of the transgender community, and the Conchita Wurst stage persona is much like Reginald Dwight's "Elton John," or Paul Reuben's "Pee-wee Herman."

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,118854.0.html

Here is the German Wikipedia stub, machine translated, with some editorial corrections by me:

Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth, alias "Conchita Wurst" (born 6 November 1988 in Gmunden, Upper Austria) is an Austrian singer and ->-bleeped-<-.

Tom Neuwirth was born in the Styrian town of Bad Mitterndorf.  In 2006, Neuwirth participated in the third season of the casting part of the show, Starmania.  In this he was in the final, and placed second behind the winner Nadine Beiler. A year later, in 2007, he founded together with Falco De Jong Luneau, Johannes "Johnny" K. Palmer, and Martin Zerza, the boy band "Now Otherwise!" ("Jetzt Anders"), which disbanded in the same year.

In 2011, he attracted attention with his participation as a fictional character "Conchita Wurst" in the ORFtalent show "Great Opportunity" ("Die große Chance").  As "Conchita Wurst" he also participated in the Austrian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 (Austria is rocking the song contest) and finished second.

(Please note that the pronouns are as in the article.)

[mintra]

I actually don't mind Drag Queens or ->-bleeped-<-s or female impersonators. In fact I love them all because they are fun and entertaining. I just thought the beard on this gal is weird. I think she'd look super gorgeous without it imho.

[Anatta]

Kia Ora,

It's for a 'good' cause (however her approach might not personally be 'my cup of tea') but I guess whatever floats 'her' boat...Good on her for being 'out' there...

"The Life Ball is an annual charity event to benefit people with HIV and AIDS."


Metta Zenda 🙂

[Kitteh Engimeer]

And he can do whatever he wants.

Damn straight! Can't be breaking barriers only to put up more rules of what is and isn't tolerable.

[cannedrabbit]

I actually don't mind Drag Queens or ->-bleeped-<-s or female impersonators. In fact I love them all because they are fun and entertaining. I just thought the beard on this gal is weird. I think she'd look super gorgeous without it imho.

I agree! Though I'm a big fan of beards, and hers is so well-styled. 😛

[Jamie D]

Pre-Conchita