it's when they cross the line into sexual deviance
Is that line somewhere before perversion? I know I moved way past perversion, into decadence and landed somewhere in the midst of depravity, but that's just me. I'm just curious as to where you draw that line.
I've been to tons of drag shows, like any other form of entertainment, heavy metal bands or nude jello wrestling, or ballet, it can range anywhere from art to crap with lots of stops along the way. It's always been more raunchy, like metal or jello wrestling, but it ain't pretending to be ballet either.
I mean, first of all drag shows tend to take place in a bar, which is going to be raunchier than a coffeehouse most of the time, but less raunchy then say, the Opera House when the Opera is performing (really, opera is the most violent, sexual, decedent cesspool in the arts. It moves all the way to depraved most of the time.) And in the whole men being women or woman being men there is a high sexual element. So you would kinda expect that.
And crude and vulgar spiels does not even begin to come close to what ->-bleeped-<-shack in SF (I'm sure NYC had its own version) did, and that tended to be a new wave younger drag show. It had, well, shall we say a very high shock level to be sure.
And the DQs did a lot, and continue to do a lot for the LGBT community, almost as much as the leather bunch does, so they deserve some props, if not a measure of respect for that.
And, its not like a new deal. Yeesh. Drag has been a part of theater for as long as we have known about theater. And as a very old part of theater its sthick has been well and long defined, and raunchy is a key part of it, for sure. Might as well complain that Greek tragedy is just too depressing most of the time.
