Drag has been making headlines recently, no thanks in part to Republican lawmakers in the United States who have begun legal crusades against this “new woke phenomenon”.
However, despite this claim, performers and shows have been around for centuries, with the Harlem drag balls being one of New York’s biggest social events in the 1920s. […] The post How drag balls provided creativity and refuge to queer communities in 1920s Harlem appeared first on GCN.