Chicks with Dicks, Men in Dresses: What It Means to Be a Drag Queen

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 113-133

  Taylor, Verta ^a   Rupp, Leila J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drag queens; Effeminacy; Gay sexuality; Gender categories; Gender identity; Gender transgression; Performance; Transgender

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMININITY; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSVESTISM;

CLOTHING; DRAMA; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECREATION; TRANSVESTISM;

EID: 2342575647     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v46n03_07     Document Type: Review

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