{"id":238,"date":"2023-04-27T23:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/?p=238"},"modified":"2023-04-28T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:37:53","slug":"photo-of-attendees-of-1988-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/photo-of-attendees-of-1988-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Attendees of 1988 Houston Drag Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more +--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_239\" style=\"width: 1221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239\" class=\"wp-image-239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1.jpg\" alt=\"Four images of attendees at a drag event. All are dressed in women's clothing and one has a mustache.\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1.jpg 1211w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-1024x1450.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/962\/2023\/04\/garden-party-1988-1-177x250.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of Houston&#8217;s Garden Party, an annual drag event. [1]<\/p><\/div>Sometimes, the first step on the way to a gender transition was to play with gender as performance, art, a kink, or for fun. This low-commitment way to explore how one felt in the literal shoes of the opposite gender was not always a stepping stone to medically transitioning, but many people who pursed medical gender alterations started out with gender atypical dress as a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>[1] &#8220;Guests at the Garden Party,&#8221; photograph, 1988<em>, Digital Transgender Archive<\/em>,\u00a0 https:\/\/www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net\/files\/1n79h456k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,12],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts","tag-drag","tag-photo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/transgender-medical-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}