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Why Are Drag Shows Popular?

April 26, 2017drag Popular shows

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Why Are Drag Shows Popular?Answer: According to glbtq.com, a popular gay-focused online encyclopedia, “Kate Millett suggested in her landmark study Sexual Politics (1970) that the thrill produced by a drag queen arises through her denaturalization of gender, her demonstration that femininity is donned like a masquerade and rendered completely irrelevant to biology. More recently, Wayne Koestenbaum has observed in his book The Queen’s Throat (1993) that drag queens, like opera divas, perform the kind of freedom that most gay men can enjoy only vicariously.