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1. Well they may not have referred to them as drag queens, but he was certainly not the first.

Sun Feb 2, 2020, 02:39 AM

Feb 2020

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/who-were-stella-and-fanny/
The history begins as early as Rome. A rose by any other name... Many societies had men who dressed as women.

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The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave [View all] tishaLA Feb 2020 OP

I knew someone would quibble with The Nation's title tishaLA Feb 2020 #2

I 'm not quibbling. You state something as a fact. It isn't. 58Sunliner Feb 2020 #3

I claim nothing. I poste the title and first few paragraphs tishaLA Feb 2020 #4

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