I DON'T!
2006-10-23 07:37:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Well Antonio, as one who is a Leatheman and a Master, I can tell you that is some circles it is considered another form of drag, however, like you I don't agree with term only in so much as it tends to imply a effeminate quality which is not present where most Leathermen are concerned.
Cheers
2006-10-23 07:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. "Drag" generally connotes the dress of the opposite gender. However, technically, "drag" can be any kind of apparel not normally worn every day...at least I know some people who see it that way. So in that context, a Halloween costume would be drag. I've done some theatre, and would get "into drag" as a certain character, even though I was playing someone of my own sex. But that's a rather uncommon view of drag, and most people would probably not view leather gear as drag.
2006-10-23 14:46:29 · answer #2 · answered by thaliax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drag is the term many people use to designate the 'costume' that they wear.
Fashion models refer to dressing up for a photo shoot as getting into Drag.
It's okay that you don't agree with your drag queen friends because it's up to you the way you express yourself. However, if you wear fashionable clothing, that's your fashion drag. If you wear leather, that's your leather drag. Wearing denim and oxford is your daily drag. If you don't wear anything, you are out of drag!
If you nit pick semantics, that's a drag.
2006-10-23 14:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by vertically challenged 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am rather involved in the leather world, and I would love to see someone tell the big bear of a guy dressed in leather at the play party holding a single tail in his hand he was in drag. It would make for a rather funny story to tell at later leather events.
2006-10-23 14:59:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drag in its broadest sense means a costume or outfit that carries symbolic significance, but usually refers to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of the other gender. Wearers of drag in this sense are divided into drag kings and drag queens, depending on the gender of the clothing adopted. The term originated either in gay or theater slang in the 1870s, where the official long-established theater term for "cross-dressing" on-stage was travesti (French, "cross-dressed," giving rise to "travesty" which took on further connotations as a genre of critical vocabulary). The term "drag" may have been given a wider circulation in Polari, a gay street argot in England in the early part of the last century. Unlike "threads," "drag" never simply meant "clothes."
That being the definition, I would disagree based on it. however I do feel anyone wearing a costume such as leather could tecnically be in drag if that was not thier part of thier everyday normal wear. A leatherman could be considered drag if he indeed did not wear it everyday as part of his life.
I personally feel they are in drag, wearing a costume in which they allow a hidden part of thier lives to show.
2006-10-23 14:47:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The great Lynn Lavner wrote and performed a wonderful song about this titled "You are what you wear". She says, and i agree, that we all do drag to some degree....with drag referring to dressing in a way to appear the way we want people to see us.
Whether you're in a ball gown, a cop uniform, a cowboy hat, or a business suit we all dress to send a message to some degree.
2006-10-23 22:00:03 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't agree, I'm gay I want a man, not a man in a dress. Leather is a turn on for me, not a pretty dress.
2006-10-23 14:42:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not agree, a Leatherman...abides by a certain code of ethics...Honor, integrity, and trust...
Leather can be fad/fashion to some bar twinkies
but to me, its a statement, a fetish
2006-10-23 15:15:24 · answer #8 · answered by Matt Z 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
2006-10-23 14:40:47 · answer #9 · answered by Harry_Cox 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋