Beyond the Lashes: Matthew Poppe and the Trockaderos

Matthew Poppe. (Photo: Matthew Brown) We are born naked, the rest is drag. - RuPaul Charles "People who haven't lived their whole lives as women... shouldn't get to define us," asserts Elinor Burkett in The New York Times, in an exasperated reaction to Caitlyn Jenner's heavily orchestrated arrival on the planet: one of the greatest male athletes of all time squeezed, Old Hollywood-style, into a corset, looking like a million dollars on the cover of Vanity Fair. And yet, provocateurs of gendered ...