see, the thing is, i was not the person who reduced the entirety of drag into something that is only performed in "shows" by gay men who are apparently appropriating the lives of famous women in order to say something about the gay male condition. cesperanza is the person who did that, and i disagreed.

i'm a gay man, but i'm also trans, and a fairly active participant in the trans community in my city. so you may feel very comfortable defining what drag really is, but i'm not, because i get to have people confuse my identity, and that of my friends, for their own preferred definitions all the time. so you might see *my* friends' wedding from this past summer and think, "oh, that is drag!", and i would see a multiplicity of gender expressions, identities, and sexualities on display, none of which were easy to pin down or define.

now i don't think that i personally live in the middle of drag culture, though i have attended shows and performances, know people who perform drag as well as people who simply enjoy cross-dressing when the mood strikes, and experience the way that drag (the practise itself and how outsiders tend to interpret certain kinds of gender expression) interacts with trans culture and queer culture. but you say that you live in the middle of drag culture. okay. so how does your experience of drag have anything to do with slash? my limited experience leads me to believe it's a hell of a lot more complex than the explanation that cesperanza offered. add to that the fact that i completely disagree with her definition of slash (to me, slash is fanfiction that deals with the relationships of queer characters of any sex, the end), and possibly you can see why i wouldn't be persuaded by her comparison, or impressed by all the people rushing to agree with it.