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• PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE
• HOW PROHIBN HELPED LNCH AMERI'S FIRST GREAT DRAG EXPLOSNTHIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, MARKS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 28, 2019/12:01 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3578PX;WIDTH:2764PX;}GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENCY/GETTY IMAGCIR 1930: CELEBRATED FEMALE IMPERSONATOR BERT ERROL FULL DRAG AND MAKE-UP. 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BUT THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME QUEER PERFORMERS HAVE PTURED THE MASTREAM SPOTLIGHT. IN THE 1920S AND '30S, DRAG EXPLOD TO POPULAR CULTURE THE UNED STAT, WH FEMALE IMPERSONATORS PACKG HO, ATTRACTG LEGNS OF (STRAIGHT) FANS, AND BREAKG TO MOTN PICTUR, POPULAR MIC, AND THE BROADWAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TALYST? BELIEVE OR NOT, WAS PROHIBN THAT FUELED DRAG’S FIRST BIG MOMENT THE U.S. EXACTLY A CENTURY AGO (OCTOBER 28, 1919), CONGRS PASSED THE VOLSTEAD ACT, PROHIBG THE PRODUCTN AND SALE OF ALHOL AMERI. UNRGROUND CLUBS PROLIFERATED IMMEDIATELY. IT’S TIMATED THAT BY THE 1920S, THERE WERE MORE THAN 20,000 SPEAKEASI NEW YORK CY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“BEFORE THE VOLSTEAD ACT, YOU’D GO TO THE BAR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU WERE FORTABLE AND EVERYONE KNEW YOU,” DRAG HISTORIAN JOE E. JEFEYS TELLS NEWNOWNEXT. “SUDNLY ALHOL GO UNRGROUND, AND YOU HAVE TO GO OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOCIALIZE WH PEOPLE YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER SOCIALIZED WH BEFORE. SO NOW GAY PEOPLE AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE ARE PUT TOGETHER THE SAME PLACE, ALL CLUMPED TOGETHER. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS MORE RISQUé—AND THE ENTERTAMENT BEME MORE SENSATNAL.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THIS POT, JULIAN ELTGE WAS ALREADY THE MOST ACCLAIMED FEMALE IMPERSONATOR—AND ONE OF THE TOP-EARNG ENTERTAERS OF HIS DAY, WH HIS OWN BROADWAY THEATER. “PEOPLE FLOCKED TO HIS ACT,” SAYS JEFEYS, WHO TEACH A URSE AT THE NEW SCHOOL NYC ABOUT DRAG RACE’S CULTURAL IMPACT. “HE’D E OUT AND TELL A LTLE STORY AND MAYBE SG.”SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAGCOLOR LHOGRAPH SHEET MIC VER IMAGE OF 'ALL THE WORLD LOV A LOVER' BY ROBERT B SMH AND JEAN GILBERT, WH LHOGRAPHIC OR ENGRAVG NOT READG 'UNATTRIB PHOTO OF JULIAN ELTGE,' NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1911. (PHOTO BY SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POSTER FOR ONE OF ELTGE'S SHOWS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIKE RUPL, ELTGE HAD A LARGE STRAIGHT FEMALE FANBASE. ALSO LIKE RU, HE WAS A NNY MERCHANDISER, PRODUCG HIS OWN MAGAZE AND MAKP LE. “ONE OF THE REASONS HE APPEALED TO WOMEN SO MUCH IS HE’D E OUT AND TALK ABOUT THE LATT FASHNS, YOU KNOW, AND MONSTRATE SOME OF THE LOOKS,” JEFEYS ADDS. “SOME HISTORIANS TALK ABOUT HIS ACT TERMS OF ‘WHENS,' HOW HE WAS PORTRAYG THE IAL WHE WOMAN OF THE PERD.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT ELTGE WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO FEND HIS HETEROSEXUALY, STAGG FIGHTS AND POSG FOR PICTUR WEARG OVERALLS AND FEEDG CHICKENS AT HIS FARM. “I’M NOT GAY,” HE ONCE TOLD REPORTERS, “I JT LIKE PEARLS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE 1920S, THOUGH, A NEW KD OF FEMALE IMPERSONATOR WAS GAG TRACTN—ONE THAT, IF NOT OPENLY GAY, WAS MORE WKGLY AMBIGUO ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY. THE DRAG BALLS OF HARLEM WERE DRAWG THOANDS OF SPECTATORS, OF ALL RAC AND GENRS. BILLED AS "THE CREOLE FASHN PLATE,” KARYL NORMAN MA HIS BUT THE SAME YEAR PROHIBN WAS PASSED. WEARG GOWNS SEWN BY HIS MOTHER, NORMAN WAS CELEBRATED ONSTAGE NYC FOR HIS OCTAVE RANGE AND SKILL AT QUICK-CHANGE. (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT REPORTEDLY ED HER CLOUT TO GET MORALS CHARG FILED AGAST NORMAN DROPPED DETRO.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN 1930 ME THE "PANSY CRAZE," A SURGE POPULARY FOR DRAG ACTS NYC, LOS ANGEL, AND OTHER MAJOR CI THE U.S. THERE WAS BARBETTE, A TRAPEZE AND HIGH-WIRE ACROBAT WHO PERFORMED FULL DRAG UNTIL THE FALE, WHEN HE WOULD RIP OFF HIS WIG AND STRIKE A MASCULE POSE. SENT TO TOUR EUROPE THE 1920S BY THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY, BARBETTE PTURED THE ATTENTN OF MAN RAY, JEAN COCTE, AND OTHER CULTURAL LUMARI. (HE WAS BANNED OM PERFORMG ENGLAND 1922 AFTER BEG UGHT HAVG SEX WH ANOTHER MAN.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE EARLY 1920S, BERT SAVOY BEME ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE IMPERSONATORS TO BE OPEN ABOUT THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HE WAS BASILLY LIKE, ‘I'M A GAY PERSON AND I'M UP HERE THIS DRS AND WE ALL KNOW ,’” JEFEYS SAYS. “IT WAS THE OPPOSE OF ELTGE, TRYG TO DISTANCE HIMSELF OM THAT NNOTATN.” LIKE MANY QUEENS OF TODAY, SAVOY WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS TCHPHRAS—CLUDG “YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF , ARIE!” AND “YOU SLAY ME!” MAE WT ADMTED SHE RPORATED SOME OF SAVOY’S SCS TO HER STAGE PERSONA.GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE/CONDé NAST VIA GETTY IMAGFEMALE IMPERSONATOR AND CIRC PERFORMER BARBETTE. (PHOTO BY GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE/CONDé NAST VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BARBETTE CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANOTHER DRAG PERFORMER PHG THE ENVELOPE WH OUTRAGEOLY RNCHY MATERIAL WAS RAE BOURBON, WHO PLAYED CARNEGIE HALL WH HIS ONE-MAN SHOW DON’T CALL ME MADAM. (ONE OF HIS ORIGAL SONGS WAS "MR. WONG HAS GOT THE BIGGT TONG IN CHA.") BOURBON BEIEND WT, WHO ST HIM TWO PLAYS, AS WELL AS OTHER CELEBRI LIKE BOB HOPE AND JEAN HARLOW. IN 1931, BOURBON EVEN MOLED WOMEN'S DRS A CALIFORNIA PARTMENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WASN’T JT FEMALE IMPERSONATORS GARNERG ATTENTN NATNWI. THIS WAS THE ERA OF THE PANSY: RATHER THAN WEAR WOMEN’S CLOTHG, A PANSY WOULD PANTOMIME THE STEREOTYPE OF AN EFFEMATE MAN. HE MIGHT BE GAY OR STRAIGHT, BUT THE PANSY MA DIENC LGH WH HIS SWISHY GA AND LISPY VOICE. “THIS PERD IS REALLY WHEN GENR PRENTATN WAS STARTG TO CEMENT SELF THE PUBLIC IMAGATN WH SEXUALY,” JEFEYS SAYS. “BEFORE THIS, THERE WASN’T A LOT OF TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY OR HETEROSEXUALY GENERAL. IT WAS BURIED AMIA, THE SCIENTIFIC REALMS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT WAS CHANGG, THOUGH, AND CROSS-DRSG AND FEMALE IMPERSONATN STARTED TO BE LKED TO HOMOSEXUALY AROUND THIS POT HISTORY. ACRDG TO JEFEYS, CERTA POCKETS OF THE U.S. BEGAN TO PASS LEGISLATN REGULATG HOW MANY EMS OF WOMEN'S CLOTHG A MAN ULD WEAR. “SOME PLAC WHERE YOU ULD NOT HAVE A FEMALE IMPERSONATOR," JEFEYS ADDS, "YOU ULD STILL HAVE A PANSY ACT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF THE TOP PANSY PERFORMERS OF THE ERA WAS JEAN MAL, WHO HEADLED NYC’S SWANKY CLUB ABBEY 1930. CLAD A TUXEDO, HE WAS SCRIBED AS "A SIX-FOOT-TALL, 200-POUND BISER WHO ALSO HAD AN ATTU AND A LISP." SGG SONGS LIKE “I’D RATHER BE SPANISH THAN MANNISH,” THE OPENLY GAY MAL WOULD WALK THROUGH THE ROOM AND WORK THE CROWD, FLIRTG WH MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE. HE ALSO APPEARED NUMERO BROADWAY SHOWS AND SEVERAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“MAL WAS A TREMENDO SUCCS AND OTHER CLUB OWNERS FOLLOWED THE LEAD,” WROTE THE SYRACE JOURNAL. “BEFORE THE MASTREAM KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, THERE WAS A HAND ON A HIP FOR EVERY LIGHT ON BROADWAY.” THERE WERE OTHER PANSY STARS, LIKE BZ FLETCHER, WHO HEADLED CLUB BALI LOS ANGEL, AND HARRY ROSE, WHO FLTED HIS WRISTS AS HE SANG “FRANKFURTER SANDWICH.”SHEET MIC VER IMAGE OF 'RAGTIME COLLEGE TURKEY TROT' BY JULIAN ELTGE, JACK MAHONEY AND PERCY WENRICH, WH LHOGRAPHIC OR ENGRAVG NOT READG 'STARMER; UNATTRIBUTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF SONGWRERS AND ST MEMBERS,' NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1913. (PHOTO BY SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A JULIAN ELTGE POSTER OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“TO SOME EXTENT, THE PANSY WAS A VERY DANDY FIGURE,” JEFEYS EXPLAS. “A REALLY WELL-DRSED GUY, MORE THAN LIKELY WH SOME MAKP ON. SO WAS A KD OF QUASI-DRAG BUT NOT REALLY FEMALE IMPERSONATN. IT WAS ‘GAY’ DRAG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WAS THE END OF PROHIBN 1933 THAT EXTGUISHED THE PANSY CRAZE. THE SPEAKEASI SHUTTERED, AND THORI BEGAN PAYG ATTENTN AGA TO WHAT WAS GOG ON BARS. AND THE GROWG POPULARY OF MOVI AND RAD PUT THE FAL NAILS VVILLE. BROADWAY’S PALACE THEATER, WHERE MANY PANSY ACTS PERFORMED, WAS NVERTED TO A MOVIE THEATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A YEAR LATER, MAL DIED A R ACCINT. HE WAS JT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY OTHER STARS OF THE PANSY CRAZE ALSO MET TRAGIC ENDS: BERT SAVOY WAS STCK AND KILLED BY LIGHTNG 1923. UNABLE TO FD WORK AS AN OUT PERFORMER, BZ FLETCHER DIED BY SUICI AT AGE 34. AND, 1967, RAE BOURBON WAS NVICTED OF BEG AN ACPLICE TO MURR, EVENTUALLY DYG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DRAG WENT BACK TO THE CLOSET AND WOULD REMA THERE UNTIL AFTER STONEWALL. “IN THE ‘50S AND ‘60S WAS ILLEGAL NEW YORK TO EVEN SELL ALHOL TO A KNOWN HOMOSEXUAL,” JEFEYS NOT. “THE LAST THG YOU WANT TO DO IS HAVE SOMETHG LIKE A DRAG SHOW GOG ON TO ATTRACT MORE ATTENTN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WOULD TAKE S BEFORE DRAG REGAED THE SPOTLIGHT, BIGGER AND BOLR THAN EVER. BUT THE LEGACY OF THE PANSY CRAZE N BE SEEN MANY PERFORMERS OF TODAY: EARLIER THIS MONTH—ALMOST 80 YEARS AFTER RAE BOURBON PLAYED CARNEGIE HALL—THE EQUALLY RIBALD BIAN L R BROUGHT HER SHOW TO THE LEGENDARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}LGBTQ HISTORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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HOW PROHIBN HELPED LNCH AMERI'S FIRST GREAT DRAG EXPLOSNTHIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, MARKS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 28, 2019/12:01 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3578PX;WIDTH:2764PX;}GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENCY/GETTY IMAGCIR 1930: CELEBRATED FEMALE IMPERSONATOR BERT ERROL FULL DRAG AND MAKE-UP. (PHOTO BY GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENCY/GETTY IMAG)BY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 28, 2019 / 12:01 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HOW PROHIBN HELPED LNCH AMERI'S FIRST GREAT DRAG EXPLOSN","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-10-28T16:01:55.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-10-28T16:01:55.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ABOVE: BERT SAVOY, AN ACCLAIMED FEMALE IMPERSONATOR OM THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS RUPL’S DRAG RACE VAS THE UNED KGDOM, DRAG’S MOMENT IS FELY ASCENNT. BUT THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME QUEER PERFORMERS HAVE PTURED THE MASTREAM SPOTLIGHT. IN THE 1920S AND '30S, DRAG EXPLOD TO POPULAR CULTURE THE UNED STAT, WH FEMALE IMPERSONATORS PACKG HO, ATTRACTG LEGNS OF (STRAIGHT) FANS, AND BREAKG TO MOTN PICTUR, POPULAR MIC, AND THE BROADWAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TALYST? BELIEVE OR NOT, WAS PROHIBN THAT FUELED DRAG’S FIRST BIG MOMENT THE U.S. EXACTLY A CENTURY AGO (OCTOBER 28, 1919), CONGRS PASSED THE VOLSTEAD ACT, PROHIBG THE PRODUCTN AND SALE OF ALHOL AMERI. UNRGROUND CLUBS PROLIFERATED IMMEDIATELY. IT’S TIMATED THAT BY THE 1920S, THERE WERE MORE THAN 20,000 SPEAKEASI NEW YORK CY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“BEFORE THE VOLSTEAD ACT, YOU’D GO TO THE BAR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU WERE FORTABLE AND EVERYONE KNEW YOU,” DRAG HISTORIAN JOE E. JEFEYS TELLS NEWNOWNEXT. “SUDNLY ALHOL GO UNRGROUND, AND YOU HAVE TO GO OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOCIALIZE WH PEOPLE YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER SOCIALIZED WH BEFORE. SO NOW GAY PEOPLE AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE ARE PUT TOGETHER THE SAME PLACE, ALL CLUMPED TOGETHER. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS MORE RISQUé—AND THE ENTERTAMENT BEME MORE SENSATNAL.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THIS POT, JULIAN ELTGE WAS ALREADY THE MOST ACCLAIMED FEMALE IMPERSONATOR—AND ONE OF THE TOP-EARNG ENTERTAERS OF HIS DAY, WH HIS OWN BROADWAY THEATER. “PEOPLE FLOCKED TO HIS ACT,” SAYS JEFEYS, WHO TEACH A URSE AT THE NEW SCHOOL NYC ABOUT DRAG RACE’S CULTURAL IMPACT. “HE’D E OUT AND TELL A LTLE STORY AND MAYBE SG.”SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAGCOLOR LHOGRAPH SHEET MIC VER IMAGE OF 'ALL THE WORLD LOV A LOVER' BY ROBERT B SMH AND JEAN GILBERT, WH LHOGRAPHIC OR ENGRAVG NOT READG 'UNATTRIB PHOTO OF JULIAN ELTGE,' NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1911. (PHOTO BY SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POSTER FOR ONE OF ELTGE'S SHOWS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIKE RUPL, ELTGE HAD A LARGE STRAIGHT FEMALE FANBASE. ALSO LIKE RU, HE WAS A NNY MERCHANDISER, PRODUCG HIS OWN MAGAZE AND MAKP LE. “ONE OF THE REASONS HE APPEALED TO WOMEN SO MUCH IS HE’D E OUT AND TALK ABOUT THE LATT FASHNS, YOU KNOW, AND MONSTRATE SOME OF THE LOOKS,” JEFEYS ADDS. “SOME HISTORIANS TALK ABOUT HIS ACT TERMS OF ‘WHENS,' HOW HE WAS PORTRAYG THE IAL WHE WOMAN OF THE PERD.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT ELTGE WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO FEND HIS HETEROSEXUALY, STAGG FIGHTS AND POSG FOR PICTUR WEARG OVERALLS AND FEEDG CHICKENS AT HIS FARM. “I’M NOT GAY,” HE ONCE TOLD REPORTERS, “I JT LIKE PEARLS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE 1920S, THOUGH, A NEW KD OF FEMALE IMPERSONATOR WAS GAG TRACTN—ONE THAT, IF NOT OPENLY GAY, WAS MORE WKGLY AMBIGUO ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY. THE DRAG BALLS OF HARLEM WERE DRAWG THOANDS OF SPECTATORS, OF ALL RAC AND GENRS. BILLED AS "THE CREOLE FASHN PLATE,” KARYL NORMAN MA HIS BUT THE SAME YEAR PROHIBN WAS PASSED. WEARG GOWNS SEWN BY HIS MOTHER, NORMAN WAS CELEBRATED ONSTAGE NYC FOR HIS OCTAVE RANGE AND SKILL AT QUICK-CHANGE. (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT REPORTEDLY ED HER CLOUT TO GET MORALS CHARG FILED AGAST NORMAN DROPPED DETRO.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN 1930 ME THE "PANSY CRAZE," A SURGE POPULARY FOR DRAG ACTS NYC, LOS ANGEL, AND OTHER MAJOR CI THE U.S. THERE WAS BARBETTE, A TRAPEZE AND HIGH-WIRE ACROBAT WHO PERFORMED FULL DRAG UNTIL THE FALE, WHEN HE WOULD RIP OFF HIS WIG AND STRIKE A MASCULE POSE. SENT TO TOUR EUROPE THE 1920S BY THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY, BARBETTE PTURED THE ATTENTN OF MAN RAY, JEAN COCTE, AND OTHER CULTURAL LUMARI. (HE WAS BANNED OM PERFORMG ENGLAND 1922 AFTER BEG UGHT HAVG SEX WH ANOTHER MAN.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE EARLY 1920S, BERT SAVOY BEME ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE IMPERSONATORS TO BE OPEN ABOUT THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HE WAS BASILLY LIKE, ‘I'M A GAY PERSON AND I'M UP HERE THIS DRS AND WE ALL KNOW ,’” JEFEYS SAYS. “IT WAS THE OPPOSE OF ELTGE, TRYG TO DISTANCE HIMSELF OM THAT NNOTATN.” LIKE MANY QUEENS OF TODAY, SAVOY WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS TCHPHRAS—CLUDG “YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF , ARIE!” AND “YOU SLAY ME!” MAE WT ADMTED SHE RPORATED SOME OF SAVOY’S SCS TO HER STAGE PERSONA.GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE/CONDé NAST VIA GETTY IMAGFEMALE IMPERSONATOR AND CIRC PERFORMER BARBETTE. (PHOTO BY GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE/CONDé NAST VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BARBETTE CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANOTHER DRAG PERFORMER PHG THE ENVELOPE WH OUTRAGEOLY RNCHY MATERIAL WAS RAE BOURBON, WHO PLAYED CARNEGIE HALL WH HIS ONE-MAN SHOW DON’T CALL ME MADAM. (ONE OF HIS ORIGAL SONGS WAS "MR. WONG HAS GOT THE BIGGT TONG IN CHA.") BOURBON BEIEND WT, WHO ST HIM TWO PLAYS, AS WELL AS OTHER CELEBRI LIKE BOB HOPE AND JEAN HARLOW. IN 1931, BOURBON EVEN MOLED WOMEN'S DRS A CALIFORNIA PARTMENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WASN’T JT FEMALE IMPERSONATORS GARNERG ATTENTN NATNWI. THIS WAS THE ERA OF THE PANSY: RATHER THAN WEAR WOMEN’S CLOTHG, A PANSY WOULD PANTOMIME THE STEREOTYPE OF AN EFFEMATE MAN. HE MIGHT BE GAY OR STRAIGHT, BUT THE PANSY MA DIENC LGH WH HIS SWISHY GA AND LISPY VOICE. “THIS PERD IS REALLY WHEN GENR PRENTATN WAS STARTG TO CEMENT SELF THE PUBLIC IMAGATN WH SEXUALY,” JEFEYS SAYS. “BEFORE THIS, THERE WASN’T A LOT OF TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY OR HETEROSEXUALY GENERAL. IT WAS BURIED AMIA, THE SCIENTIFIC REALMS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT WAS CHANGG, THOUGH, AND CROSS-DRSG AND FEMALE IMPERSONATN STARTED TO BE LKED TO HOMOSEXUALY AROUND THIS POT HISTORY. ACRDG TO JEFEYS, CERTA POCKETS OF THE U.S. BEGAN TO PASS LEGISLATN REGULATG HOW MANY EMS OF WOMEN'S CLOTHG A MAN ULD WEAR. “SOME PLAC WHERE YOU ULD NOT HAVE A FEMALE IMPERSONATOR," JEFEYS ADDS, "YOU ULD STILL HAVE A PANSY ACT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF THE TOP PANSY PERFORMERS OF THE ERA WAS JEAN MAL, WHO HEADLED NYC’S SWANKY CLUB ABBEY 1930. CLAD A TUXEDO, HE WAS SCRIBED AS "A SIX-FOOT-TALL, 200-POUND BISER WHO ALSO HAD AN ATTU AND A LISP." SGG SONGS LIKE “I’D RATHER BE SPANISH THAN MANNISH,” THE OPENLY GAY MAL WOULD WALK THROUGH THE ROOM AND WORK THE CROWD, FLIRTG WH MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE. HE ALSO APPEARED NUMERO BROADWAY SHOWS AND SEVERAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“MAL WAS A TREMENDO SUCCS AND OTHER CLUB OWNERS FOLLOWED THE LEAD,” WROTE THE SYRACE JOURNAL. “BEFORE THE MASTREAM KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, THERE WAS A HAND ON A HIP FOR EVERY LIGHT ON BROADWAY.” THERE WERE OTHER PANSY STARS, LIKE BZ FLETCHER, WHO HEADLED CLUB BALI LOS ANGEL, AND HARRY ROSE, WHO FLTED HIS WRISTS AS HE SANG “FRANKFURTER SANDWICH.”SHEET MIC VER IMAGE OF 'RAGTIME COLLEGE TURKEY TROT' BY JULIAN ELTGE, JACK MAHONEY AND PERCY WENRICH, WH LHOGRAPHIC OR ENGRAVG NOT READG 'STARMER; UNATTRIBUTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF SONGWRERS AND ST MEMBERS,' NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1913. (PHOTO BY SHERIDAN LIBRARI/LEVY/GADO/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A JULIAN ELTGE POSTER OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“TO SOME EXTENT, THE PANSY WAS A VERY DANDY FIGURE,” JEFEYS EXPLAS. “A REALLY WELL-DRSED GUY, MORE THAN LIKELY WH SOME MAKP ON. SO WAS A KD OF QUASI-DRAG BUT NOT REALLY FEMALE IMPERSONATN. IT WAS ‘GAY’ DRAG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WAS THE END OF PROHIBN 1933 THAT EXTGUISHED THE PANSY CRAZE. THE SPEAKEASI SHUTTERED, AND THORI BEGAN PAYG ATTENTN AGA TO WHAT WAS GOG ON BARS. AND THE GROWG POPULARY OF MOVI AND RAD PUT THE FAL NAILS VVILLE. BROADWAY’S PALACE THEATER, WHERE MANY PANSY ACTS PERFORMED, WAS NVERTED TO A MOVIE THEATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A YEAR LATER, MAL DIED A R ACCINT. HE WAS JT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY OTHER STARS OF THE PANSY CRAZE ALSO MET TRAGIC ENDS: BERT SAVOY WAS STCK AND KILLED BY LIGHTNG 1923. UNABLE TO FD WORK AS AN OUT PERFORMER, BZ FLETCHER DIED BY SUICI AT AGE 34. AND, 1967, RAE BOURBON WAS NVICTED OF BEG AN ACPLICE TO MURR, EVENTUALLY DYG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DRAG WENT BACK TO THE CLOSET AND WOULD REMA THERE UNTIL AFTER STONEWALL. “IN THE ‘50S AND ‘60S WAS ILLEGAL NEW YORK TO EVEN SELL ALHOL TO A KNOWN HOMOSEXUAL,” JEFEYS NOT. “THE LAST THG YOU WANT TO DO IS HAVE SOMETHG LIKE A DRAG SHOW GOG ON TO ATTRACT MORE ATTENTN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WOULD TAKE S BEFORE DRAG REGAED THE SPOTLIGHT, BIGGER AND BOLR THAN EVER. BUT THE LEGACY OF THE PANSY CRAZE N BE SEEN MANY PERFORMERS OF TODAY: EARLIER THIS MONTH—ALMOST 80 YEARS AFTER RAE BOURBON PLAYED CARNEGIE HALL—THE EQUALLY RIBALD BIAN L R BROUGHT HER SHOW TO THE LEGENDARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}LGBTQ HISTORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

The cy already had a number of gay-iendly bars, cludg Pfaff’s Beer Cellar (favoured by Walt Whman) and the Sli, which Joseph Pulzer’s New York Eveng World labelled “morally the lowt New York, Paris, London or Berl”.

” In Berl, you uld hear sgers performg Das Lila Lied (The Lavenr Song), one of the earlit songs to celebrate homosexualy. “This song beme the gay anthem of the time and still has stat today, ” says sger Ute Lemper.

At Club Abbey, Mal dched the drs and revented himself as a high-mp, waspish, obvly gay man – and was this that sgled him out. “What was novel is that he did not brg a drag act to the club, but stead performed elegant men’s clothg, and brought wh him the mp w of the gay subculture, ” explas LGBT historian JD Doyle.

GAY MAL

Photograph: Brigte DummerBut Paris had a reputatn for s laissez-faire attu, and queer performers were enuraged by the succs enjoyed the cy by Amerin performers cludg bisexual dancer Josephe Baker and gay trapeze artist Barbette. The bawdy, openly gay Pl O’Montis died the Sachsenhsen mp, jt 25 north of the stag he once mand.

HOW TO PRONOUNCE GAY MAL

Wh the Hays Co effectively banng Hollywood om portrayg homosexual characters (or “attemptg to keep the dual-sex boys and lbos out of films” as Variety put ), and war Europe on the horizon, the LGBT performers who had domated nightlife for more than a were driven back unrground. It would be s before we would see anythg as outrageo Bowie Ma Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Mic by Darryl W Bullock is out now, published by Duckworth Overlook. So now gay people and straight people are put together the same place, all clumped together.

“I’m not gay, ” he once told reporters, “I jt like pearls.

”By the 1920s, though, a new kd of female impersonator was gag tractn—one that, if not openly gay, was more wkgly ambiguo about their sexualy. “He was basilly like, ‘I'm a gay person and I'm up here this drs and we all know , ’” Jefeys says. He might be gay or straight, but the pansy ma dienc lgh wh his swishy ga and lispy voice.

GAY MAL

“Before this, there wasn’t a lot of talk about homosexualy or heterosexualy general. ”That was changg, though, and cross-drsg and female impersonatn started to be lked to homosexualy around this pot history.

" Sgg songs like “I’d Rather Be Spanish Than Mannish, ” the openly gay Mal would walk through the room and work the crowd, flirtg wh men and women alike.

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It was ‘gay’ drag. “In the ‘50s and ‘60s was illegal New York to even sell alhol to a known homosexual, ” Jefeys not. This exhib clus recent patgs, prts, photographs and sculpture by Amy Arb, Eric Boyer, David Brewster, Rona Lee Cohen, Jim Giddgs, and Gay Mal.