History is a Drag

What does crossdressing have to do with Norse mythology? EVERYTHING. The Vikings were odd people (and if you don’t believe me just look up the story about Loki and the goats). But, I digress.

So, who is our next crossdresser? Thor, God of Thunder of course! One day in the wonderful planet-y place of Asgard he loses his dear hammer Mjolnir to the eeeeeeevil giant Prymr. The eeeeeevil giant demands the beautiful Feyja in exchange for Mjolnir, but Freyja ain’t havin’ none of that. So Loki comes up with a glorious plan as usual (see goat story):

HE DRESSES THOR UP AS A WOMAN.

Bingo.

So Thor pretends to be Freyja dressed in a bridal gown (I think it was either mermaid or ball gown style, I’ll have to double check), some shit goes down, and in the end Thor goes frolicking in the meadow with Mjolnir, which he safely retrieves from Prymr.

Meanwhile, Loki is laughing and wondering why the gods do everything he suggests.

The truly visionary Joan of Arc enters the stage next to her theme song of Supergirl. Because, let’s face it, “super” is exactly what she was. Like Miss Lawrence, Joan of Arc was a young woman determined to make a difference in a war, but in this case, it was the Hundred Year’s War. At the age of nineteen this little chanmé led the French army to victory in a number of battles. 

Alas, Joan was captured and put on trial by this little pro-English merde: theBishop of Beauvais. She was burned at the stake for “insubordination and heterodoxy”…aka “crossdressing and being an overall BAMF.” 

Frankly, Joan of Arc is one of the sexiest crossdressers in history. I mean, LOOK AT DAT CHAIN MAIL. Also, she is just magnifique. 

Next up is the ever-fashionable Dorothy Lawrence, the would-be war correspondent from the First World War. Her true wish was to report on the front lines of the war, but because she was a woman, every effort of hers was met with boorish, manly laughter. This dame pulled out all the stops in her efforts to disguise herself as a man: she bound her chest, cut her hair, and dyed her skin bronze with furniture polish. She made it to the front lines (on bicycle, no less) and survived for ten days until she was finally discovered to be a woman. 

While her later life is certainly quite a bit more tragic (including alleged rape and mental institutions) Dorothy will always be undeniably badass for her crossdressing endeavors in WWI.

WURK IT DOROTHY.

F. Scott Fitzgerald can be seen sporting a big ol’ hat, a quaint flower bouquet, and a whole lotta man cleavage. Drag was simply all the rage at the Princeton Triangle Club. The soft curves of his neck and his basoomas earned him the title of most beautiful Show Girl for the play “The Evil Eye” which he wrote the lyrics for and starred in (1915-1916).

GIMME SOME OF DAT MAN-CLEAVAGE, FITZGERALD.