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="drag": referring to men dressing in women's clothes=


=1870, March 20=
John Safford Fiske writes from the United States consulate in Edinburgh to Ernest Boulton in London saying that he had received a "charming: letter from their friend Louis Hurt, reporting that Boulton was "living in drag".<ref>{{Katz, Love}}, page 193.</ref>


=1870, May 29=
"We shall come in drag." ''Reynolds's Newspaper''.<ref>''Reynolds's Newspaper''.1870, 29 May, page 5, column 5 cited in:  ''Oxford English Dictionary'', full citation?</ref>

=1870, June 23=
"Not quite so low‥as going about in ‘drag’."<ref>''London Figaro'' 1870, 23 June, page 3, column 4, cited in: ''Oxford English Dictionary'', full citation?</ref>


=1887, July 24=
"I don't like to see low coms. in drag parts."<ref>''Referee'' 1887, 24 July page 3, column 1 cited in: ''Oxford English Dictionary'', full citation?</ref>


=1893, October=
"an annual convocation of men [in Washington, D.C.] called the drag dance".<ref>See OutHistory.org: [http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Hughes:_%22Organization_of_Colored_Erotopaths,%22_October_1893 OutHistory.org]. The original source cited in {{GAH}} is Charles H. Hughes, "Postscript to Paper on 'Erotopathia,' -- An Organization of Colored Erotopaths." ''Alienist and Neurologist'' (St. Louis, MO), volume 14, number 4 (October, 1893), pp. 731-32.</ref>


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="drag queen"=

=1941=
"Drag-queen, a professional female impersonator; the term being transferentially used of a male homosexual who frequently‥wears women's clothing…While many innate male homosexuals wear women's underwear‥they are not for that reason called drag-queens."<ref>Gershon Legman in George W. Henry, ''Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns'', 2 vols. (New York: Hoeber, 1941), volume II, page 1164.</ref>


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