Producer/director Aaron Hunter prefers the term “female impersonator” to “drag queen.” Either way, his new Starz Cabaret show is royal. Modeled on high-camp, high-glam productions in Vegas and Chicago ...

Meet Julian Eltinge, America’s most successful and highly-paid female impersonator from the 1900s to the 1920s. Enter a forgotten world of musicals and burlesques where men from college to the ...

Unidentified Artist via New-York Historical Society; Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière for The Advocate; Public Domain via fashion conservatory Drag is woven in the fabric of American society. Suppose you ...

You probably didn't know it, but in the 1910s and 1920s, "varsity" referred just as much to college drag musicals—"normal" dudes in splendid dresses and sparkly heels—as to football. The University of ...

The "Attack Of The 50Ft Drag Queen" will mark the first time in the Tennessee Theatre's history that a local Female Impersonator will host his show for all of Knoxville. Known locally as 'Knoxville's ...

In an era decades before "RuPaul's Drag Race" or political battles over drag performers, a University of Michigan student named Lionel "Iron Mike" Ames became a national sensation for his stunning ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa sent letters Wednesday to five Iowa city councils calling for a change to local statutes that classify “female impersonators” and “male impersonators” as ...