You probably didn't know it, but in the 1910s and 1920s, "varsity" referred just as much to college drag musicals—"normal" dudes in splendid dresses and sparkly heels—as to football. The University of ...

This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. Drag artists were huge in vaudeville, musical comedies, and ...

Meet Julian Eltinge, America’s most successful and highly-paid female impersonator from the 1900s to the 1920s. Enter a forgotten world of musicals and burlesques where men from college to the ...

Julian Eltinge may have been donning a corset cinching his 40-inch waist to an hourglass 25 inches, but he’d still kick your butt. Eltinge, actor and female impersonator, was known to stage brawls ...

Al Woods built the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in 1912 for the female impersonator Julian Eltinge. Clark Gable and Alice Brady starred here in the 1930s production of Love, Honor, and Betray. The ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/hajd19182.2 It is my privilege to invite you to David Hajdu and John Carey’s A Revolution in Three Acts, a book of graphic ...