Gay balls, cross-dressing balls, pansy balls, or drag balls were (depending on the place, time, and type) public or private balls that were celebrated...

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. From as early as pre-modern history,...

This article details the history of cross-dressing, the act of wearing the clothes of the sex or gender one does not identify with. Patriarchy is a social...

Hamilton Lodge Ball, also known as the Masquerade and Civic Ball, was an annual cross-dressing ball in Harlem, United States. The Lodge's ball in 1869 was...

A gay ball may refer to: A cross-dressing ball, especially one whose participants are gay men Ball culture, an LGBT Black and Latino American offshoot...

ball culture. Cross dressing balls have existed in the city since the 1800s; the Hamilton Lodge Ball in 1869 is the first recorded drag ball in US history...

Cross-dressing and drag in film and television has followed a long history of cross-dressing and drag on the English stage, and made its appearance in...

of cross-dressing and experience significant distress or impairment – socially or occupationally – because of their behavior. It differs from cross-dressing...

Breast reduction Gender-affirming surgery (female-to-male) History of cross-dressing Smith, Merril D., ed. (2014). Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast. Lanham...

Vogue... Drag ball and voguing culture made its screen breakthrough in 1990 when Livingston's movie, titled Paris Is Burning after the 1986 ball staged by...

to town. In the 1960s laws and regulations were put in place against cross-dressing and the Jewel Box Revue slowed down a bit. Although places like Los...

suggested it. Xtravaganza states in Paris Is Burning that she began cross-dressing and performing at age 13 or 14, placing her earliest performances around...

Retrieved 26 January 2022. Tennant, Janet (15 August 2022). It's a Drag: Cross-Dressing in Performance. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-5906-5. Retrieved...

"inextricably tied to the queer community". Traditionally, drag involves cross-dressing and transforming ones sex through the use of makeup and other costume...

It is parallel to cross-dressing in film and television and draws on a long history of cross-gender acting. An entire cross-dressing genre of operatic...

during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay...

Cross-dressing as a literary motif is well attested in older literature but is becoming increasingly popular in modern literature as well. It is often...

of Xtravaganza. A prominent transgender performer in New York City's gay ball culture, Xtravanganza featured in the acclaimed 1990 documentary film Paris...

and evaluations with general and trans-specific healthcare services: a cross-sectional survey". International Journal of Impotence Research. 33 (7):...

expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone (usually male) who performs femininely and...

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Stuff: With some spit and polish, women perform in growing world of cross-dressing pageantry". The University of South Carolina Daily Gamecock. Archived...

episodes happening in the throne room, many corridor episodes, the cross-dressing ball at the end of Episode 1, and the scenes that take place on the stairs...

house.[citation needed] On November 18, 1901, the police raided a cross dressing ball known as the Baile de los cuarenta y uno, or Dance of the Forty-One...

LaBeija in 1968. The House is often credited as starting the house system in ball culture. She became a mother figure for homeless LGBTQ youth. In the early...

Sugar and Spice Toxice Trixie and Katya Media Related Cross-dressing Cross-dressing ball Cross-dressing in film and television Gender variance Gender bender...

Sugar and Spice Toxice Trixie and Katya Media Related Cross-dressing Cross-dressing ball Cross-dressing in film and television Gender variance Gender bender...

Sugar and Spice Toxice Trixie and Katya Media Related Cross-dressing Cross-dressing ball Cross-dressing in film and television Gender variance Gender bender...

1972, Crystal & Lottie LaBeija presented the 1st Annual "House of LaBeija Ball” at Up the Downstairs Case in Harlem, NY. This is thought to be the birth...

misogyny is, of course, that it figures male-to-female transsexuality, cross-dressing, and drag as male homosexual activities — which they are not always — and...