This study exam the issue of ternal segregatn wh the gay muny, focg on the ways by which the drag queen subculture is distanced om larger mastream gay society. Through the e of stutnal ethnography, symbolic teractnism, and a naturalist approach to soclogy, the …
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THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
Though most drag queens are gay men and queer men, some are transgenr and cisgenr women.
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Drag queens, otherwise known as “female impersonators, " are most typilly gay cisgenr men (though there are many drag queens of varyg sexual orientatns and genr inti) who perform and enterta on stage nightclubs and bars. Although ’s unclear exactly why, drag kgs are ls mon gay muni, and are also ls visible popular culture and rearch on drag. That started to change the late 1960s and ’70s durg the sexual revolutn, when drag beme more proment wh gay male muni, and eventually, thanks part to RuPl, a part of popular culture.