In ‘Glitter and Concrete,’ Elyssa Maxx Goodman offers a history that every lawmaker who wants to ban drag should read.
“The great thing about drag is you can invent the roles for yourself,” explains drag artist Marti Gould Cummings, and Goodman’s book features a thrilling array of mothers of invention. Take Broadway female impersonator Bert Savoy, rumored to have provided inspiration for Mae West, who, out of drag, was reportedly “bald, paunchy, middle aged, and blind in one eye,” but once ensconced in a “formfitting dress and spreading, feathered hat” made “a dashing if slightly bawdy fashion plate.
As Goodman shows, the Stonewall uprising, in which drag queens played an important part, is but one example of the ways that political posturing and laws have unfairly targeted the queer community. “I don’t think there’s a way of doing drag and not [being] political,” performer Junior Mintt says, only “not be[ing] aware you’re doing it politically.
Goodman is especially compelling when chronicling the life of Jack Doroshow, a.k.a. Flawless Sabrina, whose life straddled the intersection of personal and societal transformation. Doroshow, who described Sabrina as “very bar mitzvah mother,” with “big swoops of blond hair and thick black cat eye liner,” hosted and produced pageants, contests in large and small cities around the United States for decades, from the 1960s on.
It’s hard to imagine this book being pored over by those pushing to pass “don’t say gay” laws or to ban books, and that’s a shame. “Glitter and Concrete” unspools origin stories in a way that provides a convincing and heartwarming counterpoint to the narratives promoted by anti-drag crusaders.
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