Tag: gender bending
Harry Styles – What’s the buzz?
What an International fuss the latest issue of American Vogue has made? The first time in 128 years Vogue magazines December issue has on it’s cover the image of a solo man and IN A DRESS! Heavens above! The chosen guy is Harry Styles, the breakaway idol from the British pop group, One…
Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with some queer & gender productions of his work online
To celebrate William Shakespeare’s April 26th birthday (he’s not quite 500 yet!) here are some great queer and gender productions of some of his finest plays available to view online Brit queer director Phyllida Lloyd mounted an all-female trilogy of plays comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest playing at London’s Donmar Warehouse…
Gender-Bending Fashions at Bostons Museum of Fine Arts
A new exhibition currently on at the Museum for Fine Arts in Boston beautifully shows that when it comes to fashion, gender-bending is not new at all and has actually been around for the over a century. The Exhibit os presenting the work of groundbreaking contemporary designers—including Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for…
Gender Bending on Broadway
He may not exactly be a Jennifer ……Holliday or Hudson ….. but Tituss Burgess, the star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt can still send shivers tingling down our spine with his live performance of the Dreamgirls showstopper “And I Am Telling You”. The video captured him as one of the stars of last years #BroadwayBackwards which is an annual celebration of…
Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women
Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938. Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved…
