Crystal labeija

While it's important to acknowledge famous names like Christine Jorgensen and Lili Elbe, it's also important to talk about other trans women who might be less well-known, but have had their own big impact on trans history.

Crystal Labeija - I have a right to show my color, darling. I am beautiful and I KNOW I’m beautiful!” The Queen, 1967 #oldschoolballroom…

The late, great Crystal Labeija.

Aja as Crystal Labeija

As we noted in our piece on Stormé DeLarverie, so much of queer history and the development of queer culture went unrecorded and unexamined by historians,

Crystal LaBeija in The Queen (1968)

In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like "Self-Portrait in Drag" (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.

Crystal Labeija

aquaria (ageofaquaria) & drag mother sharon needles