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 …
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THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
Drag queen, a man who drs women’s cloth and performs before an dience. Drag shows (typilly staged nightclubs and Gay Pri ftivals) are largely a subcultural phenomenon. Though drag has never enjoyed mastream appeal, drag queen is a mon enough term popular culture, partly * are drag queens all gay *
All drag queens are 's te that the majory of drag queens are gay, but there is a small mory of queens who are straight.
Explag their choice, host RuPl said, “From the early days of the gay liberatn movement, to the AIDS crisis, to today, our queer sisters have always shown up when the LGBTQ muny need them the most. Yet, they still only prent a few kernels of tertg week, that me om the queens—all gay men—chattg wh their lbian fay about the plited subject of reclaimg certa slurs.
”Then, Amanda posed an tertg qutn, which remas a hot-button issue wh queer circl (and the Drag Race fandom self): “Do you guys thk that lbians n say ‘fag’ and that gay guys n say ‘dyke, ’ or that should only be kept wh those groups to say?