The downtown nightclub, loted at 18 E Universy Ave, beme Gaville’s first gay club after openg s doors more than 30 years ago. It’s wily regnized as the heart of Gaville’s LGBTQ+ nightlife.
Contents:
- ‘FALLY! A SPORT FOR GAY PEOPLE!’: HOW DRAG WENT MASTREAM
- FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI
‘FALLY! A SPORT FOR GAY PEOPLE!’: HOW DRAG WENT MASTREAM
* gay in drag *
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. The 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.
Police regularly raid gay bars the US – until the late ‘60s, Jefeys said, was illegal for bars New York to serve a drk to a “known homosexual. Queens found their own drag ho – and chosen fai the procs; for many Black and Lato queer and trans people this was a reactn to the racism they faced wh the gay pageant scene.
As drag grew populary the ’60s and beyond, many trans women found themselv performg bee rampant transphobia and homophobia ma difficult to fd other work. 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 queens.
FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI
To do drag is to drs up or prent yourself differently than your everyday genr, ually for exprsn or performance. Draggg is not an ditor of a person’s genr inty. A drag queen or drag kg is also distct om a trans person. Although most people who do drag are gay or lbian, drag performers n * gay in drag *
The glamour, the mp, the sheer gay fun of all.
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.