"Drag" was originally a theatrical term used to describe the women's clothing a man wore on stage. It came into use in the 1870s at the same time that cross-dressing, or dressing as the opposite sex, became popular in vaudeville...

A Drag queen is usually a man who dresses (or "drags") in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing or entertaining as a hostess, stage artist or at an event. This is in contrast to those who cross-dress...

00-00-0000 In drag for the queen -- Spy mission required skills that now seem unavailable ROGER EBERT Date: 10-25-2002, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B * ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN: Directed by Stefan...

Go figger: A cultural critic dresses up, screws straight guys DIARY OF A DRAG QUEEN By Daniel Harris Carroll & Graf, 199 pp. $14.95 Several years ago, cultural critic Daniel Harris published A Memoir of No One in Particular, a supposedly satirical...

Hey, all you stiletto-trotting, 300-pound drag queens! The New York Times cares. Now that the East Village has gone all luxe, where are the jam-band hipsters to go? India, of course. (The New York Times) The artistic purging of New York killed the works...

New York's gay pride parade is traditionally a mix of politics and campy pageantry, and the state Assembly's move toward legalizing same-sex marriage has heightened the atmosphere this year. But parade organizers are smarting over the city's rejection of a request to hold a street...