Throughout the twentieth century, clothg has been ed by lbians and gay men as a means of exprsg self-inty and of signalg to one another.
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Throughout the twentieth century, clothg has been ed by lbians and gay men as a means of exprsg self-inty and of signalg to one another. By the eighteenth century, many ci Europe had veloped small but secret homosexual subcultur.
London's homosexual subculture was based around ns and public ho where "molli" ngregated. Male homosexuals ntued to cross-drs both public and private spac throughout the neteenth century.
In the 1920s, the Harlem drag balls offered a safe space for gay men (and lbians) to cross-drs. Cross-drsg performers, monly known as drag queens, ed women's cloth to parody straight society and create a gay humor. The tradn has been rried on by gay drag performers such as Amerin performers Dive and RuPl and Brish televisn star Lily Savage.