The interaction of drag queens and gay men in public and private spaces

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 11-32

  Berkowitz, Dana ^a   Belgrave, Linda ^b,c   Halberstein, Robert A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross dress; Drag queen; Ethnography; Gay men; Gender blending; Internal segregation; Transgenderism; Transvestite

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSVESTISM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FLORIDA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL ALIENATION; TRANSVESTISM;

EID: 34547283343     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v52n03_02     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Adler, P. & Adler, P. (1994). Observational techniques. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 377-392). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Benjamin, H. (1966). The transsexual phenomenon. New York, NY: Julian.
3. Blumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
4. Brubach, H. & O'Brien. (1999). Girlfriend: Men, women and drag. New York, NY: Random House.
5. Bullough, B. & Bullough, V. (1987). Are transvestites necessarily heterosexual? The Journal of Sex Research 26(1), 1-12.
6. Bullough, V., Bullough, B., & Smith, R. (1983). A comparative study of male Transvestites, male-to-female transsexuals, and male homosexuals. The Journal of Sex Research 19(3), 238-257.
7. Docter, R. (1988). Transvestites and transsexuals: Toward a theory of cross-gender behavior. New York, NY: Plenum.
8. Docter, R. & Prince, V. (1997). Transvestism: A survey of 1032 cross-dressers. Archives of Sexual Behavior 26(6), 589-606.
9. Ekins, R. (1996). The career path of the male-femaler. In R. Ekins & D. King (Eds.), Blending genders: Social aspects of cross-dressing and sex-changing (pp. 39-48). New York, NY: Routlidge.
10. Ekins, R. (1997). On male femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing. New York, NY: Routledge.
11. Feinberg, L. (1996). Transgender warriors: Making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
12. Feinberg, L. (1998). Trans liberation: Beyond pink or blue. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
13. Fournet, L., Forsyth, C., & Schramm, C. (1988). The process of deviance designation: The case of the homosexual transvestite. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 16(2), 177-182.
14. Glaser, B. & Strauss, A. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
15. Gubrium, J. & Holstein, J. (1997). The new language of qualitative method. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
16. Hirschfeld, M. (1991). [v3] Transvestites: The erotic drive to cross-dress (Michael A. Lombardi-Nash, Trans.) Buffalo, NY: Prometheus. (Original workpublished 1910).
17. Hopkins, S.J. (2004). Let the drag race begin: The rewards of becoming a queen. Journal of Homosexuality 46(3/4), 135-149.
18. King, D. (1993). The transvestite and the transsexual: Public categories and private identities. Aldershot: Avebury.
19. Lofland, J. (1976). Doing social life: The qualitative study of human interaction in natural settings. New York, NY: Wiley.
20. Loftland, J. & Loftland, L. (1995). Analyzing social settings: A guide to qualitative observation and analysis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
21. Mead, G.H. (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
22. Meyerowitz, J. (2002). How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the U.S. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
23. Morrow, D. (2004). Social work practice with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Adolescents. Families in Society 85(1), 91-99.
24. Namaste, V. (2000). Invisible lives. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
25. Newton, E. (1972). Mother camp: Female impersonators in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
26. Prince, C. & Bentler, P. (1972). Survey of 504 cases of transvestism. Psychology Republic 31, 903-917.
27. Schacht, S.P. (2000). Gay female impersonators and the masculine construction of other. In P. Nardi (Ed.), Gay Masculinities (pp. 247-268). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
28. Schacht, S.P. (2002a). Four renditions of doing female drag: Feminine appearing conceptual variations of a masculine theme. In P. Gagne' & R. Tewksbury (Eds.), Gendered Sexualities in the series on Advances in gender research (pp. 157-180). Boston, MA: Elsevier Science.
29. Schacht, S.P. (2002b). Turnabout: Gay drag queens and the masculine embodiement of the feminine. In N. Tuana et al. (Eds.), Revealing male bodies (pp. 155-177). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
30. Schacht, S.P. & Underwood, L. (2004). The absolutely fabulous but flawlessly customary world of female impersonators. Journal of Homosexuality 46(3/4), 1-17.
31. Shaffir, W. & Stebbins, R. (1991). Experiencing fieldwork: An inside view of qualitative research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
32. Smith, D. (1987). The everyday world as problematic: A feminist sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
33. Stryker, S. (1980). Symbolic interactionism: A social structural version. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings.
34. Talamini J. (1982). Transvestites: Deviant or minority? International Review of History and Political Science 19(1), 50-67.
35. Taylor, V. & Rupp, L.J. (2004). Chicks with dicks, men in dresses: What it means to be a drag queen. Journal of Homosexuality 46(3/4), 113-133.
36. Tewksbury, R. (1993). Men performing as women: Explorations in the world of female Impersonators. Sociological Spectrum 13, 465-486.
37. Tewksbury, R. (1994). Gender construction and the female impersonator: The process of transforming "he" to "she." Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15, 27-43.
38. Troiden, R.R. (1988). Homosexual identity development. Journal of Adolescent Health Care 9, 105-113.
39. Troiden, R.R. (1989). The formation of homosexual identities. Journal of Homosexuality 17, 43-73.