SISSYDUDE LOVES: James St. James and Mathu Andersen: Transformations (via The WOW Report)
“The stunning beardy wonder Mathu Andersen joins James St. James in this weeks Transformations for World of Wonder. Is Mathu even human, because in my eyes he’s godly.” – James St. James
SISSYDUDE LOVES: mimi kirchner has got a whole bunch of her tattoo’d fuzz-face dolls for SALE! (prices $250.00 – $300.00)
DOLL INFO HERE @ ETSY!
Kurd Men For Equality “Being a woman is not a way for humiliation or punishment.” (via Greg K… via BUZZFEED)
Kurdish men are dressing in women’s clothing in response to the punishment given to a convicted man earlier this month. He was paraded down the streets of Marivan in a woman’s dress in order to humiliate him.
The campaign “Kurd Men for Equality” launched on FACEBOOK in protest of this punishment.
In response to the judge’s sentence, a local feminist organization, the “Marivan Womens’ Community”, held a protest. One hundred women took to the streets of Marivan in a campaign for gender equality. In solidarity with the women’s protest, men began to post photos of themselves in women’s clothing.
“deep in vogue” extended video
Malcolm McLaren “Deep In Vogue (Extended)” from American Booze on Vimeo.
HOT BOY official video AB SOTO directed by jonathan daniel federico
Dir: Jonathan Daniel Federico
Download- https://soundcloud.com/absotomusic/hotboy
MIND BLOWN! sissydude LOVES front free endpaper
Front Free Endpaper “An eclectic mix of book collecting and dealing, gay life, gay sex, science fiction and victorian photographs”
“I am a bookcollector, bookdealer, publisher and writer living in Portsmouth on the South Coast of the UK. This blog is my personal space for the recording of my numerous interests including science-fiction, victorian and vintage photography, gay literature, book design, typography, homoerotic artwork, the Amazon river, the books of Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), Forrest Reid, sundry gay Victorian and Edwardian characters, Slash Fiction, Samuel R Delany, Vintage swimwear, Willard Price, Venice, and so on… Alongside all of that you also get a personal journal of life and memoir and the self-therapy you have come to know and love from bloggers.” – Callum
what’s so bad about a boy who wants to wear a dress? by RUTH PADAWER / photos by LINDSAY MORRIS/ the new york times (via JP)
The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).”
They explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time. After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender-nonconforming children, they concluded that “the important thing was to teach him not to be ashamed of who he feels he is.” Thus, the purple-pink-and-yellow-striped dress he would be wearing that next morning. For good measure, their e-mail included a link to information on gender-variant children.
When Alex was 4, he pronounced himself “a boy and a girl,” but in the two years since, he has been fairly clear that he is simply a boy who sometimes likes to dress and play in conventionally feminine ways.
Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-Man. Even his movements ricochet between parodies of gender: on days he puts on a dress, he is graceful, almost dancerlike, and his sentences rise in pitch at the end. On days he opts for only “boy” wear, he heads off with a little swagger. Of course, had Alex been a girl who sometimes dressed or played in boyish ways, no e-mail to parents would have been necessary; no one would raise an eyebrow at a girl who likes throwing a football or wearing a Spider-Man T-shirt.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE @ NYT
i love these girls so much! CANDY, JACKIE & HOLLY
Paul Ambrose, Agosto Machado, Douglas Fisher, Candy Darling and Jackie Curtis rehearsing scenes from “Vain Victory” at La Mama in April 1971, followed by a “fashion show” sequence shot on opening night!
Jackie Curtis sings “Blood Red Roses” at a La Mama reception in 1970 (that is Ellen Stewart just to the right of Jackie). The song was from the Broadway musical of the same name that closed after one performance! At the end when Curtis throws roses into the applauding crowd you can see artist Salvador Dali. Video courtesy Steina Valsulka.
Candy Darling shooting and fight in Women in revolt (1971) by Andy Warhol and Paul Morissey
Jackie Curtis’ Vain Victory with Paul Ambrose, Candy Darling, Eric Emerson, Estelle, Agosto Machado, Mario Montez, Ritta Redd, Larry Ree.
confessions of an accidental go-go boy
By Will Wikle
Photographed by Marco Ovando
A little over a decade ago, I stepped off a Greyhound bus from rural Mississippi with only a month’s rent in my Gap capri pants pocket. Like many others, I came to New York City completely confused, looking for a place where I could finally be myself. Since that day, this city has turned me into everything from a reality TV star (I appeared on Big Brother 5) to a travel show host (Round Trip Ticket on Logo), and most importantly, a registered nurse. I’ve come out of the closet here, found my first true love and created sustaining friendships that have grown into a freaky family. So it seemed only natural to me at the ripe old age of 32 to shock my system with an unexpected new hobby: go-go dancing.
I’ve danced all over the city nearly every weekend since, driven by the unparalleled view of New York City nightlife afforded by the go-go perch. I get to see the drag queens perfecting their tuck game in the back of the club and watch drunken one night stands spring to life on the dance floor. Some friends make fun of my new side gig, saying my nurse-slash-exotic dancer existence is like the plotline of a low budget indie film. To my Southern Baptist family back home, I tell them that God blessed me with a bountiful butt, and shaking it is my ministry.
