Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today

What is it about?

This article analyses the practice of ‘male impersonation’ in the British Music Hall and American vaudeville in the late 19th- and early 20th- century, exploring the negotiation of gender and sexual stereotypes by performers. It then uses the same analytical framework to examine drag king practices in London subcultures.

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