History repeating (this is talking about the 1930s):

"Police told Variety that acts contained 'nothing obscene or immoral in show...but [we’d] like it stopped anyhow'...The increased anxieties around nightclubs that featured drag were multiplied by societal backlash against sexuality, since many of the clubs associated with drag were considered gathering places for Minneapolis’s queer community..."

https://www.mnopedia.org/drag-performance-minnesota-1880-1950

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MN context re: article by @rachelcleves: "Some participated in the performance tradition of the “womanless wedding”...in which an all-male cast made up of community members reenacted a comedic wedding scene by playing roles of both men and women. At the same time that these revues allowed for socially accepted manipulations of class and gender norms, they also served as fundraisers hosted at local schools or churches..."

https://www.mnopedia.org/multimedia/drag-performers-virginia-minnesota

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@rachelcleves Thanks for your important historical perspective in the WaPo today. It's absolutely true for Minnesota, as laid out in this article I edited and published in MNopedia:

https://www.mnopedia.org/drag-performance-minnesota-1880-1950

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/03/09/drag-shows-tennessee-bill-lee/

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