Question: 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. Both these explanations may be correct because drag exists in multiple manifestations that individually seem to support both authors' theories."
Continue: Do all transgender people have sex reassignment surgery?
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. Both these explanations may be correct because drag exists in multiple manifestations that individually seem to support both authors' theories."
Continue: Do all transgender people have sex reassignment surgery?
