A good drag artist is rare to find but at their best they're amazing. I also like the way, in Britain at least, they have a kind of subversive cultural heritage - a bit like puppetry had in soviet era Czechoslovakia. I recently finished reading Peter Ackroyd's 'Dressing Up', which is basically a lengthy history of Drag in Britain, and it really is one of the best books I've read in ages. I'd recommend it highly.
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