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THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
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By Sttie Andrew, CNN (CNN) -- To many, the stereotypil image of a drag queen is one of a gay man drsed exaggerated feme getup, oversized wigs and heavy makp. Its performers are gay and straight. Those who perform exaggerated forms of masculy, now often referred to as drag kgs, also mand stag across the US, provg masculy uld be prodd as much as term "homosexualy" me to greater circulatn the '30s, Jefeys said, as did "pansy acts" -- hyper-feme queens whose rout clud nuendos about same-sex sire.
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"And yet, even wh the LGBTQ muny, trans women who performed drag were often ostracized, particularly among some cisgenr gay drag queens, acrdg to Esther Newton, an anthropologist who thored the semal 1979 book "Mother Camp" about Midwtern drag trans drag queens who received hormone jectns were "strongly plored by stage impersonators who (said) that the whole pot of female impersonatn pends on malens, " Newton sentiment has not entirely disappeared. 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.