This rearch aims to unrstand the trans/drag muny and s relatnship to polil activism and the lbian and gay muny the 1970s and early 1980s. I aim to answer the followg qutns: How did Drag perceive the relatnship between the gay/lbian muny and the trans/drag muny? How did Drag functn the trans/drag muny? How did Drag benef s rears? Transgenr dividuals and drag queens were at the foreont of activism the1960s durg the Compton’s Cafeteria Rt and the Stonewall Inn Rts. Recently, there has been more attentn to the cril transgenr activism by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Still, there is ltle amic rearch on other drag queen activism historilly between Stonewall and the start of the AIDS epimic. I nducted archival rearch at the Tretter Collectn at the Universy of Mnota. To nduct my rearch on trans/drag activism, I examed the magaze Drag. In my rearch, I found that Drag played an important role the buildg of a trans/drag muny. Durg the 1970s, the trans/drag muny was met wh hostily om the gay and lbian muny, who often ostracized them om their activism. Drag created an expansive drag muny that enpassed a wi spectm of transfeme/drag inti and provid support to that muny.
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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 … * community advanced gay drag queen *
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