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homes. They arrive with their suitcases, dress at the
party, change before leaving. And that is that. It is
masquerade. Nothing more serious. The queens who
practice it as intelligent enough to realize it.

But there is another form of drag queen who can-
not resist the temptation to dress up as a woman, go
out into the streets and solicit men by pretending to
be prostitutes.

There is no doubt it is a reflection of a sexual
“aberration, and police report that it is on the in-
crease. The increase in arrests both for impersonat-
ing a woman and soliciting has become a worrisome
statistic.

How does it work?

With surprising ease. Homosexuals who dress up
as women with sexual experience as their goal do
not hang around gay bars or places where they
might meet their own kind. They are not interested
in affairs with other homosexuals. They are looking
for normal men.

Oddly, a normal man is an easy victim of their
wiles. Having experienced little exposure to the
homosexual world and probably none to a drag
queen, he is enchanted at the idea of meeting such an
easy pick-up.

The queen practicing this particular brand of per-