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why im thinking about all this, and why im framing it all this way, is because we were recreating the same journey that fairy balls had gone through before the strata of drag as female impersonator performance really crystalized.

At a time when drag had since long locked down to being only gay men and a requirement of denouncing it as anything about identity, way before it would begin to consider other possibilities, the street fairies appeared prototrans dykes, and that magnetism of queer-underneath openness was just undeniable in how it brought people in, all over a few £5 dresses.