#candydarling

#candydarling

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Wear a star... and be a star! T-shirt ad from 1974. They fit skin tight! 😆 Source: Playgirl, April 1974 #vintageads #1974 #1970s #tshirts #Playgirl #advertisements #marilynmonroe #candydarling #davidbowie #iggypop #jimmorrison #elvispresley #mickjagger #chuckberry #mickjagger #janisjoplin #billieholliday https://www.instagram.com/p/CmNJAJ_uCXg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Candy Darling on her Deathbed, 1973, colourised. ❤️ Didn't want to take my makeup off yet so had a little cute photoshoot in my room at 2am after the @burlesqueathome show last night ❤️. Swipe for me laughing at @misspetty_p who was taking the photo 🤡 Featuring my newest ink baby Gunter from @hanus_tattoo 😻 ____________________________ Hair: @websterwigs, cut & styled by me (Non-feather❤️) boa: @sequinshowstoppers MELANCHOLIABLACKBILE.COM ____________________________ #melancholiablackbile #dragqueen #queer #candydarling #model #muse #trans #transgender #lgbtq #transisbeautiful #androgynous #czechdragqueen #czechdrag #praguedrag #prague #dragperformer #altdrag #draglesque #burlesque #burlesqueperformer #queerartist #pink #cute #kawaii #showghoul #showgirl #plushies #adventuretime #penguin #makeup (at Prague, Czech Republic) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFiDx0JQAt/?igshid=lszr4m0ihsoa

My #WCW is #CandyDarling...Candy was a friend of my Moms, they met at #MaxsKansasCity where my parents met too. Candy was an absolute stunner, influencer and all round talented woman...The stories I heard growing up were beautifully fantastical about her & I know shaped me in ways as a young woman figuring out what beauty was to me...#WCW #TransDayOfVisibility #YouMatter https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzYqUAFylm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qq4vrlc7ylwq

#candydarling #doriangray #jackmitchell #1971 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWDUJJhoDe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dhg1cp7kze76

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“Candy says I’ve come to hate my body / And all that it requires in this world” – Lou Reed, “Candy Says” (1968). . Picture: Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) on her death bed, March 1974. Photo © Peter Hujar. . When Candy Darling, who died forty-four years ago today, was in her teens, her mother confronted her about rumors regarding an inclination toward cross-dressing; in response, Candy left the room and reappeared in full gender-affirming attire. . “I knew then,” her mother later said, “that I couldn’t stop Jimmy [Candy’s assigned name]. Candy was just too beautiful and talented.” . By the mid-1960s, Darling was a fixture in Greenwich Village, where she had a number of roles in various experimental theatre projects, including Jackie Curtis’s 1967 play “Glamour, Glory and Gold,” starring Darling and a young Robert DeNiro. After seeing Darling in that role, Andy Warhol cast her in “Flesh” (1968) and as a lead in “Women In Revolt” (1971). . In addition to the Warhol films, Darling appeared in several other independent movies, though her attempts to break into the mainstream were unsuccessful. . Candy Darling died of lymphoma on March 21, 1974; she was twenty-nine. . “Unfortunately before my death,” Darling wrote on her deathbed in a letter intended for Warhol, “I had no desire left for life...I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. Did you know I couldn’t last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again.” . Darling’s funeral drew thousands, including several of the film icons she admired most; Julie Newmar, for example, read the eulogy, and Gloria Swanson saluted Darling’s coffin. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist #CandyDarling Source: lgbt history