7.
Norn, age 6
St. Petersburg, Florida (1975)
My mom also used to dress me up as Shirley Temple, Tina Turner, Cher, or Gilda Radner and have me perform for her friends during their cocktail hour. Wigs, dresses, heels, etc. They would HOWL with laughter as I camped it up, and I LOVED getting laughs!
8.
ANDY
“What can I say? I have a flair for the dramatics.”
9.
Jeff, age 7
Chestertown, Maryland (1970)
I really don’t remember wearing this uniform (but I did like playing with GI Joe dolls and my friend Gretchen’s Barbies too), so maybe my parents were probably trying to butch me up a bit? But as you can see, my queerness overwhelmed the intended machismo of the uniform. Nowadays I have a bit of a uniform fetish, so maybe this is where it all began?!