CHAPTER SIX

Strange Sex Practices of “Drag” Queens

JINTIL THE JAZZ AGE of the Roaring Twenties,
female impersonation was an ancient and re-
spected theatrical art, traceable to the theatre of the
Greeks when actors, capable of playing women’s
roles were much sought after and admired. In the
Middle Ages, men appeared as women in the im-
provisations of the Troubadors. The great women’s

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