Female & Male Impersonator Sheet Music (original) (raw)
Below, likely the best book on early Male Impersonators
It reveals that Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner were the only ones where
a same-sex relationship could be documented (page 178)
below, from the book
Other "suspected" lesbians are Bijou Price, Blanche Selwyn and Josie Mansfield
Below, very intersting article about Black drag queen William Dorsey Swann. I would not call him the first drag queen, but the story is quite good. Link or, if they take the article away, this pdf
Here's some sheet music about the guys....
In the 1880s there were many songs about Dudes, those young effeminate dandies...like this one...
The ladies all love me and call me a 'dear!" I'm dudish by love! real dudish you know and when they caress me I feel "awfully queer" it's dudish, real dudish you know
AND
Browse the Cornell University Postcard Collection
Hello, Dearie: Female Impersonators' Songbook
**Non-Impersonator William Haines Exerpt from the book Wisecracker & Article on Haines from the Texas Triangle
And, one that did not really fit but is just here to amuse:
Below, another excellent source
http://scaa.sk.ca/gallery/genderimpersonators/index.html
Gee! But I Hate To Go Home Alone
Nope, no female or male impersonation going on here, but I liked the insinuation between the title and photo of vaudebille act Herman & Briscoe, 1922
