Honestly, I miss it.
It’s pageant season in the drag world and Facebook is ripe with constant updates on evening wear, talents and interviews. Across the country kings and queens are preparing to compete in prelims and finals, looking for sponsors, packing suitcases and truck beds with costumes and props and dragging backup dancers across country.
Honestly, I miss it.
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Self-professed "Professional Pervert" Shanna Katz (www.shannakatz.com) decided to feature Freddy in her Fearless Press blog Out of the Box. The first drag king to be featured in her column, I'm tickled that I got the opportunity!
Thank you, Shanna, for helping to shed a little light on the drag community and kings and opening the door to something that doesn't get talked about a lot: ie. drag and sexuality. Read the interview here. And be sure to check out her other blog Unapologetic. Oh look! It's another drag blog. 'Cuz there aren't already a gazillion of them out there already. It seems that these days everyone has something to say, and everyone seems to think that what they have to say is going to be entertaining enough that the masses will want to hear it, thereby causing a revolution in the drag blogs. Me, I don't necessarily believe that my thoughts are any better, or any worse, than any of the others out there. I've been asked for years why I don't have a blog, and I never did have a good excuse, so I finally bit the bullet and decided "what the hell!" And so here we are. Do I think I'm going to be THE name in drag blogging (drogging?)? In all honesty, I don't really care. Obviously there are people out there who'd be interested in a Freddy blog, and so it is for them that I write here.
I know that my perspective on things will be different than other droggers out there. (Yep, I totally think I'm going to stick with it... It will be a household word soon, mark me!) The drag community is already huge, and continuing to grow exponentially, so I neither expect everyone to read this, nor do I expect those who do read it will all agree with what I have to say. I am going to try my damndest to not make this blog all about me. Which is kind of strange to say, since blogging (drogging) is pretty damn narcissistic to begin with, but what I mean is I'd like to try to keep it about drag and not about how this person hurt my feelings, or how this drag king stole my song, or how I'm just full of unresolved teenage angst, so I stomp my foot and throw a proverbial temper tantrum. (Note: these are all things I've seen on other drogs, so I'm not just making stuff up.) I will not dish dirt, start drama or write page after page about how the community or the world OWES me. So if that's what you're looking for, I can direct you to a couple different drogs, because you won't find it here, my friend. That being said, I'm going to do my best to update fairly regularly, as time and computer access allows. THAT being said, it's almost quitting time and since I decided to write my first blog on company time, I should probably clock out and head home. Cheers! |