There's nothing stopping you, Charles. Continue that legacy. Make that day for some Seattle youngster. After all, you don't have to be a drag queen to like a little dress up. Sometimes I put on a wig when I'm doing housework.

And if you had been here in the freaky Seattle 70's, you would have seen a lot of porno theaters and drag queens. All up and down First Avenue, down in Pioneer Square, around Westlake, and up Pike Street (But not Pine Street. That was our Fashion District). For a taste of it, see the 1972 film "Cinderella Liberty". Seattle looks absolutely grim in it. That's the Seattle I fell in love with.

Ethereal, moving, powerful story.

@1 - Thanks for the recommendation, found some clips and it looks perfectly watchable. A bit before my time, but my impression as a kid looking from the family car window was pretty much what you described.

A ha ha ha ha,...

Mudede flies to England during the height of its unionization, regressive, strike every day, social welfare- binging, central state epoch and -- noting the depravation -- decides 'capitalism' is bad. Then goes to post-war modernization, culturally homogeneous, capital investing, natural-resource slaying economy, during the "Glada" -- and decides "Socialism" works.

Now THAT is fucking hilarious.

Great story. Beautiful, powerful imagery. It was a humbling reminder that not everything is an ideological war.

Thanks, Charles.