Thread by @marinamaral2

Article by the Huffington Post: "10 Historical Photos and Stories of Drag Queens"

The FIRST photo is a digitally manipulated photograph of THOMAS EDISON. I've already debunked it a thousand times and I'm still amazed that people don't recognize the face.

huffingtonpost.com/lgbt-news/10-h…

These are all fake too (featured in the same article).

It's not their fault. The person who manipulated these photos should have written a disclaimer on them or something. Unless you have a trained eye or have seen the original photos, it is hard to know.

Doing this is different from adding colors. When you add elements and change the images so dramatically, you change the story and context and make people believe they are portraying something that is not even real. I bet these are being used in history books somewhere.

Created in Photoshop from images in the Brady-Handy Collection at the Library of Congress.

A different version of that one of Thomas Edison.

Of course, crossdressing has been around for a long time and its history is very relevant. The problem is that these photos are not real, were taken in completely different contexts, and belong to different historical periods. Manipulating them can be dangerous, in my opinion.

Correction: this one is real.

My intention is just to show that we need to be careful and check twice before sharing something. Nothing else. :)

Caption: "Cross dressing in Victorian England"

Prince Albert....