British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornemead Fort, England in 1940
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Hard to believe they won the war with that sort of thing going on…I’ll bet German soldiers never did that! /s
When men were real men am I right? None of that crossdressing stuff going on today.
Casual Friday
As is so often said in the UK: ‘Typical!’ Trust the enemy to ruin everyone’s fun. But they put their shoulders to the wheel – literally. Good lads, a job well done no doubt.
Bunch of dudes in drag having to fight off Nazis. Weird how we’ve come full circle on that.
But..but… you said full dress uniform?!?
Those damn antifa drag queens
God save the queens.
Totally loving this but I can never find any good source on why British men tend to wear drag over the ages. A passing remark I read years ago was that you can always expect a British male celebrity to have a picture wearing drag one time or another in their youth, be they actors, politicians, or even in finance. Why is that?
Great photo op
“Never before have I seen a display of such blatant poofery!”
Wait. I thought real men bullied drag queens, and kids at the library? Hmmm. Looks like I had it backwards. Drag queens battle nazis with school bus sized guns, while finding time to rehearse for festivities.
back in 2012 my old band did a short run of shows and one of them was in Virginia Beach. The guitar player of the opening band was in a local biker gang so a bunch of his cronies showed up walking around like they owned the place. Since we were playing the same show we were accepted by them, but you could sense the tension in the air.
As the band with the biker guy is playing, 6 or 7 members of the Royal Navy on a brief shore leave burst through the door. They were huge, very drunk, very loud, and dressed entirely in drag. We did a few shots together, from what few words I could actually understand I *think* I was conversing with them, but the funniest thing was watching the biker bravado swell a bit, then shrink. I’m sure they were tough but there was no telling the giant dudes in drag shouting in British that they weren’t welcome.
They stayed for a few songs and went on their merry way. This picture makes me happy to see that some things don’t change.
Shantay you stay. Krauts , you reich the fort but did nazi us coming back at you. Now shashay away.
It is one thing to put on a dress to act in a play about women, it is entirely British to dress in suspendies and a bra under that dress.
Monty Python’s Artillery division was shorter lived than their flying circus.
Everyone is talking about how this is soo great and Britain is so progressive but lets all remember that a couple years after this Alan Turing the man who made the first modern computer amoung all the other things that he innovated was chemically castrated because he was gay.
At the time this photo was taken it was very illegal to be gay in Britain.
The guys in this picture are not some bastion of progressiveness.
Cross dressing =/= drag
“And when we go on night patrol we’ll hold each other’s hands, cuz we are the British army and we’re here to take your land..”
Slay
This is what real men look like. Not so fragile in their masculinity that they’re scared of a wearing specifically shaped piece of cloth.
this aged well
“He knew how to treat a female impersonator.”
“Meet the gang cos the boys are here the boys to entertain you”
Reddit is gonna love this
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” was a whole different thing in the 1940’s
Drag isn’t gay if you do it with the boys
Great propaganda for when I run under the rule of fem boy totalitarianism
It wasn’t a drag show.
It would be some kind of amateur dramatics play
“Silly. And a bit suspect I think.”
– Monty Python
More like sir Rupert Paul’s drag race
Imagine the look on the nazis face when they died and saw the killcam
Woke antifa terrorists where will it end smh my head
You know they had to be extra deadly since they were probably first assumed a joke upon first sight. One of the most beautiful displays of courage in war photos I’ve ever seen.
Grandpa: “It was gay. Everyone was. But, back then, we were called pole-fancies.
It was real, good old-fashioned “grab the nearest tree and hold on for dear life” gay, not today’s fancy, featherbed, thread-count gay. People got hurt back then!”