Drag performers have sashayed onto San Antonio’s stages in wigs and dresses since before World War I.
, an assistant archivist at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s special collections and scholar of LGBTQ history. “They packed into theaters to see these performers, and that included families. It was not considered fringe behavior but simply a form of entertainment.”
Criticism of drag performances and the LGBTQ community “comes in cycles, and it is disturbing given all the gains that the LGBTQ population has had over the decades,” Gohlke said. “For me, the most concerning is the backlash against our trans brothers and sisters and the daily hurdles that they face.”
“I was surprised when I started finding things,” Gohlke said. “I don’t know why I was so surprised but just the creativity that was out there to express who you are and to find places to do it in. That, to me, is amazing. It speaks to the creativity and the tenacity of folks who often live on the margins and are not content to stay there.”In the early days, drag performances consisted of comedy routines.
“Here you have a very famous female impersonator who is open in his letters about his homosexuality, and it makes the front pages of the paper,” Gohlke said.
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