{"id":44266,"date":"2020-06-26T02:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=44266"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:54:28","slug":"klicktipp-john-lind-an-early-drag-icon-weblogpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=44266","title":{"rendered":"Klicktipp: Larissa Borck: John Lind: An Early Drag Icon (Weblogpost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/916119_blm_item_85414-539x800-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44289 size-thumbnail alignleft\" title=\"via Website\" src=\"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/916119_blm_item_85414-539x800-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Larissa Borck via Europeana Common Culture <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.europeana.eu\/2020\/06\/john-lind-an-early-drag-icon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Web)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8222;\u2018Every man can learn the art of being a beautiful woman,\u2019 said John Lind, one of the most successful female impersonators in the early 20th century. He became one of Sweden\u2019s most famous stars in international show business, playing effortlessly with society\u2019s norms about gender and sex.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a small town in Sweden, John Lind advanced to a regular guest on stages across the world, from the Moulin Rouge in Paris and the Colosseum in London to the Broadway in New York. This career in the performing arts made him \u2013 born as John Lindstr\u00f6m in Vissefj\u00e4rda in 1877 \u2013 an early 20th century star, touring across Europe, the Americas and Africa. John Lind was attracted by standing on the stage and performing for his audience for his entire life.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up and going to school in Karlskrona, he organised and took part in theatre plays. His group soon earned some money with entrance fees. When a theatre director travelled through Karlskrona, she saw him perform and recommended him to the Tivoli in Stockholm. When he left Karlskrona, at the age of 17, the local newspaper wrote: \u2018Already as a young boy, L. has shown great attraction to the theatre and has performed successfully with several performances. [\u2026] Lindstr\u00f6m is now planning to travel to the capital to become a stage artist, a career for which he seems to have a natural talent and invincible passion.\u2019&#8220; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.europeana.eu\/2020\/06\/john-lind-an-early-drag-icon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more &#8230; (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larissa Borck via Europeana Common Culture (Web) &#8222;\u2018Every man can learn the art of being a beautiful woman,\u2019 said John Lind, one of the most successful female impersonators in the early 20th century. He became one of Sweden\u2019s most famous stars in international show business, playing effortlessly with society\u2019s norms about gender and sex. Coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-sources","category-category_online-editions","category-topic_lgbtiq-flit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56043,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44266\/revisions\/56043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}