Famous F__ Hags Through Time

[Modem Butterfly]

Okay, as a F__ Hag myself I've noticed that Haggery has some astounding roots. Who are your favorite historical Hags?

Josephine Baker. Totally. WAAAAAYY too fabulous not to be a Hag.

Marie Antoinette. Let them eat cake, let me hang out with gays.

Joan of Arc. Never asked, never told.

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Can I get a definition?

I'm trying to find a common thread among those three women and I can't.

How do I know if I am one or not?

[Modem Butterfly]

4. They were fabulous women who weren't at all uptight

And, come to think of it, they were all French.


Okay, how about Julie Andrews, star of Victor/Victoria (my favorite movie when I was growing up)

[Bouncy Ball]

10. How do you know YOU are one?

I guess that's what I was asking. I guess some people who know me might think I'm fabulous and I'm definitely not uptight. Does that make me one?

[Modem Butterfly]

31. I was a teenaged Fag Hag

My mom's an artist and my folks were involved in the local community theater, so I grew up knowing a lot of creative and artistic type people. About the time I was old enough to understand sex, I realized that a good number of these family friends were in relationships with people of the same gender. I remember telling a friend of mine about Mike and his husband George and my friend said, "EW! They're fags! Don't you think that's SICK?" and I thought about it and realized, no, it's not sick. Mike and George had a great house and were much better cooks than my mom. George liked working on cars as much as my dad AND he played piano. No, Mike and George weren't sick- they were COOL. And that's when it started.

We also had a older lesbian couple as neighbors, and these ladies taught me how to sew and knit and cook, and later how to apply make-up and walk in heels. When my grandmother was dying and my mom was falling apart, they looked after my brother and I. They taught me more about being "feminine" than my straight mother ever did.

I'm predisposed to liking gay and lesbian people now, as a result of my early upbringing. I've always had a lot of gay friends, and about the time I was in college, I realized that the term "Fag Hag" fit me pretty nicely. I guess I'm just a little bit fabulous too.

[hangemhigh]

11. I thought Hags were...

women who spent a lot of time hanging out with their gay guy friends.

[Modem Butterfly]

30. Pretty much

Of course, back in the old days, when gay people had to hide for fear of being beaten and murdered, there weren't a lot of records on who was a Hag and who wasn't.

[mr_hat]

2. My sister has a reverse-posse. (Fabulous ballerina, see?)

They were always ever-so polite towards me.

[Modem Butterfly]

6. How cool is that?

That sounds really terrific.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. What's a reverse-posse?

[mr_hat]

15. She has the opposite of fag hags who worship her.

Not sure what you'd call them, other than (in the context of this thread) a reverse posse.

[saltpoint]

3. The First Lady of Texas.

[hollywood926]

5. and the former first lady of New Jersey. :-) n/t

[saltpoint]

12. : ) eom

[Mabus]

8. Mary Todd Lincoln

or so I've heard.

[WCGreen]

9. Lizza Minellu and Judy Garland....

[Modem Butterfly]

14. And Miss Barbra Streisand, too

NT

[Mabus]

13. Arianna Huffington

[hangemhigh]

16. Bette Midler. nt

[hangemhigh]

17. One more-if you believe Kitty Kelley...

Laura Bush.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Cher

[terrya]

19. Ann Coulter

Since her bestest, bestest buddy Matt Drudge is as queer as the proverbial $3 bill.

[jdonaldball]

20. Some GOOD hags:

Some hags I admire:
Queen Elizabeth the First of England
Boudicea
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ci Xi, the Empress Dowager of China
Louise Bryant (writer and lover of John Reed, cf Russian Revolution. Louise died in poverty in Paris)

[hangemhigh]

21. Rikki Lake, Madonna, Liz Taylor. nt

[blm]

22. Laura Bush.

.

[blm]

23. Daryn Kagan.

[hangemhigh]

24. Isn't she Rush's GF? LOL! nt

[GalleryGod]

25. Laura Welch Bush keeps the door Closed to the Biggest Closet Queen:

Namely Old #43 ,Himself!

[donheld]

26. Do lesbians know men who are male version of a fhag?

[Hardrada]

27. The Duchess of Windsor

So I have heard.

[Moloch]

28. I'm sure they don't appreciate being called fag hags...

The proper term is fruitfly.

[Modem Butterfly]

29. OMG!

I would SO rather be called a Fag Hag than a Fruit Fly.

[peekaloo]

32. Oh my. Reminds me of an old National Lampoon story:

Tatum O'Neal "I was a fag Hag in my cradle".

I thought they were called Fruit Bats.