what's the deal with gay men and divas? this used to mystify me even as i myself find myself drawn to artists such as madonna and bjork, who clearly fit the term. i think it is because female artists are more daring in their development of their personas. maybe this is simply that we can accept female artists who don different costumes and daring outfits and be altogether different from who they are. male artists on the other hand tend to be straightforward in dress and persona. even prince and beck, quite daring in clothes simply portray varieties of the same persona they have cultivated: prince, the smouldering and sexual being, and beck the tongue-in-cheek hipster.
nobody of course can match madonna, there's nobody quite like her. annie lennox and more recently, shania twain are doing similar stuff. other female artists don't get it, it's not about costumes and music videos. a lot of people say madonna is calculating, that she's trying to cash in on the next trend, but clearly they don't understand that whatever she has been, she has been true to herself. she is not trying to be something she's not. she just uses her experiences as a springboard for ideas.
i suppose it's this trait of "divas" that i find fascinating, that these women are constantly changing and portraying themselves in a different way. and i suppose for drag queens, these women are a treasure trove of ideas that they can try on for size. i guess, in a way, it's very ironic that i find the idea of "re-inventing" myself very appealing. because for the longest time, i couldn't just be myself, i had "re-invented" myself as someone else in a straight world.
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