Oddly, one of the most revealing things in the GLBT Historical Society’s new exhibit is an overwrought denunciation of Black drag queens dating from all the way back in 1893. One Dr. Charles H. Hughes of St. Louis (clearly incensed) had his note published by a medical journal of the era.
It states, in part:
“I am credibly informed that there is, in the city of Washington, D.C., an annual convocation of negro men called the drag dance, which is an orgy of lascivious debauchery beyond pen power of description.”
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“An orgy of lascivious debauchery beyond pen power of description" is an incredible slogan for a drag show
I would pay good money to attend a drag show with paid actors who talked like this.
I would kill to see a 19th century drag show.