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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
<p>The historical period known as the "pansy craze" denotes a unique moment in United States history marked by wide-spread public fascination with “pansy” performance, or entertainment involving male entertainers performing in feminine personas suggestive of homosexuality. During the pansy craze, …
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
… well-established terms like the gay and lesbian “pansy craze,” I encourage a new perspective on this period’s drag, and possibly beyond, as a distributed form of resistance, dependent on the relay of information between individuals.</p> <p>In the first chapter, “From High Heels and Rubber Breasts …