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From female impersonation to drag
How did drag develop from light-hearted female impersonation to a world-dominating art form?
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Mixed feelings and milk siblings
A friend in need has a profound effect on Alev’s feelings about women sharing their milk in this final instalment of ‘The Breastmilk Market’.
Catalogue
- Books
The drag scene : the secrets of female impersonators / by Desmond Montmorency.
Montmorency, Desmond.Date: 1970- Books
Mother camp : female impersonators in America / Esther Newton.
Newton, Esther.Date: 1979- Archives and manuscripts
Press and media: Porn Magazines: Drag/Female Impersonators/"She-Males"
Date: n.d. c. 1970s-1980sReference: PP/KIN/G/2/3/1Part of: Dr Dave King: transgender research materials- Archives and manuscripts
Pioneer writers on transgender: C J Bulliet, Venus Castina: Famous female impersonators celestial and human
Date: 1928-c. 1970sReference: PP/KIN/H/1/5Part of: Dr Dave King: transgender research materials- Pictures
Five performers in front of a painted set.
Date: [between 1880 and 1918?]Reference: 3320280iPart of: Cabinet Card depictions of female impersonation.