Those are also icons, and we have to treat them as such.

“I’m not trans, I’m gender nonconforming,” Tranter says.

So many of the bold, insane lyrics in Divine’s music that were just so vulgar.

Pepper LaBeija, Divine

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But there was a smile with the vulgarity and there was a glamor Divine’s own version of glamor… Plus,Outmagazine digital director Mikelle Street breaks down the history of ballroom and drag.

(Read more of Street’s history ofthe evolution of ballroom and drag.)