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early female impersonator who gained fame on Broadway and in Black Vaudeville. In the twentieth century some gender impersonators, both female and male...

actors as female impersonators. The evolution of female impersonation and drag in the United States was influenced by minstrel shows. The term female impersonator...

1999) was one of the 20th century's foremost female impersonators, particularly noted for his impersonation of Bette Davis. Born in Watertown, New York...

gain. Celebrity impersonators are impostors who look similar to celebrities and dress in such a way as to imitate them. Impersonators are known as sound-alikes...

Club, was a nightclub in Manhattan, New York City that employed female impersonators as entertainers. The nightclub had a second life as a music venue...

2015) was an American singer, film, television and stage actor, and female impersonator. Bailey was born on January 10, 1938, in Philadelphia to Sara and...

exaggerated female impersonation, camp occasionally became extended to all things "over the top", including women posing as female impersonators (faux queens)...

Elvis impersonators continued at the rate it did since 1977, by 2043, all humans on earth would be Elvis impersonators. An Elvis impersonator in Arkansas...

itself, female impersonators also created niches that female performers could occupy later. In animations and video games, it is not unusual for female actors...

The Autobiography of an Androgyne, in 1918, and his second, The Female-Impersonators, in 1922. June also authored an unpublished third autobiography in...

wakashū (adolescent boys, about 10–18 years old) or as onnagata (female impersonators).: 90–92  This term also appears in modern Japanese homosexual slang...

Finocchio, the creator of the club, had the idea of a nightclub with female impersonators in costumes when a patron jokingly went on the stage of his club...

Frank Marino (born November 20, 1963) is an American female impersonator dubbed "Ms. Las Vegas"[citation needed] for his longtime starring role as Joan...

Miss Gay America is a national pageant for female impersonators. Established in 1972, the pageant is based on the Miss America contest and follows a similar...

This is a list of drag queens, sometimes known as female impersonators, drag performers, or drag artists. List of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants List of...

the club to make female impersonation performances the main focus of the club. The Jewel Box Lounge employed several female impersonators who were nationally-renowned...

Brigham Morris Young (January 18, 1854 – February 20, 1931) was one of the founders of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA), the predecessor...

America and Africa. But he only performed once in Sweden, where female impersonators were not quite well considered at the time. During a tour in the...

Welcome to Woop Woop (1997), and Nicholas Nickleby (2002), in which he donned female garb to play Nathan Lane's wife. Humphries featured in various roles in...

Vol. VII, No. 7, July 1920 Since the dance was performed by women, female impersonators or drag queens, a goochie man, or hoochie coochie man, either watched...