Drag
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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".[1]
1870, May 29
"We shall come in drag."[2]
1870, June 23
"Not quite so low‥as going about in ‘drag’."[3]
1887, July 24
"I don't like to see low coms. in drag parts."[4]
1893, October
"an annual convocation of men [in Washington, D.C.] called the drag dance".[5]
"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."[6]
Notes
- ↑ Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), page 193.
- ↑ Reynolds's Newspaper. 1870, 29 May, page 5, column 5 cited in: Oxford English Dictionary, full citation?
- ↑ London Figaro 1870, 23 June, page 3, column 4, cited in: Oxford English Dictionary, full citation?
- ↑ Referee 1887, 24 July page 3, column 1 cited in: Oxford English Dictionary, full citation?
- ↑ See OutHistory.org: OutHistory.org. The original source cited in Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976) 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.
- ↑ Gershon Legman in George W. Henry, Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, 2 vols. (New York: Hoeber, 1941), volume II, page 1164.
