Club My-O-My was a female impersonator club that origated and end the French Quarter. It flourished after first beg kicked out of an rmal, after-hours home a fur warehoe the Vix Carre the early 1930s, acrdg to oral history the New Orleans gay muny. The Club My-O-My joed the olr Wonr Bar the Wt End area of New Orleans. The Wonr Bar eventually closed; om the 1930s through the 1960s, the My-O-My served as a popular part of New Orleans nightlife...
Contents:
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
- MONROE PERFORMER REACH DRAG QUEEN SUMM, CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI 2022
- GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
* gay female impersonators *
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. Moncrieff & Lienard relay that the gay muni which drag was born serve as a backdrop due to their exclive and protected nature that was once necsary for the survival of the muni. In the study, Moncrieff & Lienard surveyed 133 gay men along wh a ntrol group of heterosexual men and women, about their perceptns of drag queens.
It is thought that this part due to the donng of overtly feme attire and stereotypil behavrs which are seen as ls sirable tras among gay men. They also risk beg discrimated agast not only public, but also wh the gay muny. The ma takeaway om the study is the hypothis that drag performers are motivated, spe the many sts, by how signalg, or performg wh the gay muny, promot “upward mobily” and stat wh a small, protected muny.
MONROE PERFORMER REACH DRAG QUEEN SUMM, CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI 2022
The rearch fdgs scribed here shed some light on potential motivatg factors of those who perform drag, at least through the ey of some the gay muny. Related: Queer Celebs Reveal Their First Gay Bar Experience; So Many Fake I. For years, when started, [The Baton] attracted primarily gay dienc.
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GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
The ’70s brought engagements at the Birds of a Feather drag revue at London’s Royalty Theatre, a seven-year stt at a gay club Cann, and tours Asia, Atralia, and across ntental Europe. ——— Many thanks to everyone who mak Makg Gay History possible: senr producer Nahanni Ro, -producer and puty director Inge De Taeye, d engeer Kev Seaman, rearcher Brian Ferree, photo edor Michael Green, genealogist Michael Leclerc, and our social media team, Cristiana Peña, Nick Porter, and Den Louren.