Some passages of The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale were simply for fun, much like the accompanying bop by Madonna, which loosely ties in to the already-loose football locker-room theme seen here. Sporty cosplay before we even had words for it, bringing me back to the lighthearted nature of the world in 2005, when violent romps were mostly of the imagined sort, not playing out literally on our streets and sidewalks. Madonna, take me away…
Fans can make you famous,
a contract can make you rich,
the press can make you a superstar,
but only luv can make you a player…
The music was silly, the poses were sillier, and the wardrobe was the silliest. Try on different guises was the main pelvic thrust of The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale, and in 2005 I had the body to slide like quicksilver into just about anything. It allowed me to inhabit people I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered on a daily basis. It allowed me to grow.
Back then I was just on the verge of turning 30, which felt slightly old to me then, especially as a gay man whose community put an impossibly high bounty on youth and beauty. Twenty years later I’m about to turn 50, and feel more at peace about it, which is a lucky turn of fortune, as fighting the fact of getting older is a losing, wasteful, and foolish battle. Still, it would be lovely to fit into a 30-inch pair of pants again, but that ship has sunk. At least there are pictures to prove that it once happened.
~ The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~
- Pink Frilly Fairy: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three
- Homage to Herb: Part One, Part Two and Part Three
- A Purple-Hued Interlude
- Style & Panache: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
- Purple Puff Confection: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
- A Blue-Hued Interlude
- Fuchsia Fabulousness: Part One. Part Two and Part Three.
- Bad Boy Bangs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
- Vanity Under Where: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
- Sugar Plum Ballerina: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
- A Pool Frolic: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
- A Cemetery Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
- Powder Blue Fur Doll: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
- A Milky Interlude
- Rock Out, Cock Out/ Hang Out, Wang Out: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
- Cocktail Cocktale: Part One and Part Two.
- A Fairy’s Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
- Willy Wonkers: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
- A Peacock In Everything But Beauty: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
- Swan Lake Fantasia: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
- Black & White in Briefs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
- Weave of Basket, Weave of Rope: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.
- Chains of Gray to Color: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
- Black Jockstrap: Back Entry: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
- Super Fairy Interlude: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
- American Psychology: Part One and Part Two.
- Jocks & Frocks: Part One.
