Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire… and Sweet Home Alabama: How Men Use Drag to Show Their Power
You thought drag and female impersonation was something subversive and perverse? Think again! In Golden Age Greece 2,500 years ago, then later in Roman times, men dressed up as women onstage to enjoy power and prestige, and to show what a woman ought to look like. Cut to our day: the Alabama legisl…
Shakespeare, the Restoration, and the Rise of the Actress: Men Insisting They Make Better Women Than Women
Juliet, Ophelia, and Lady Macbeth were all originally written for and played by men. Then women broke onto the scene and, for a time, theatre bros around London argued that drag artists were better than actual women onstage. We also talk about M*A*S*H, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and drag at And…
Dames, Wenches, and “High Yallers”: From Camp Queens to the Minstrel Show’s Tragic Divas
With women playing women onstage, female impersonation took a turn for the comical, the campy, and the cartoonish. Legendary "dames" like Dan Leno and Bert Savoy pioneered the art of "false disguise." During the late 1800s, that most troublingly American entertainment genre, the blackface minstrel …
Thank You, God, We’ll Take it From Here: How Doctors and Scientists Put Themselves in Charge of Sex and Gender, and What it Meant for Drag
Beginning in the 1800s, doctors, researchers, and men of science decided sex and gender was suddenly in their wheelhouse, not the church's. Now if you were queer or cross-dressed, you weren't a sinner, just sick or "inverted." Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, and others brou…
Varsity Athletes and War Heroes: Drag on Campus and in the Trenches in the Time of World War One
Starting in the 1890s, American college students formed all-male clubs to put on elaborate drag plays and musicals. Harvard had Hasty Pudding, the University of Michigan had the Mimes, and the University of Pennsylvania, Mask & Wig. Luminaries from Teddy Roosevelt to Jimmy Stewart were members of t…
Elks, Freemasons, and Knights of Pythias: Womanless Weddings and the Golden Age of Fraternal Orders
There was a time when millions of men across America joined frats for (kind-of) grownups: Elks, Knights of Pythias, and scores of others. What helped them bond with and bromance one another? You guessed it: impersonating women. Lodges totally embraced Womanless Weddings and other drag artistry. Wha…
Parlor Games, Journeymen, and Jilted Brides (and Seances!): The Roots of Womanless Weddings
No one's really sure where Womanless Weddings came from. They seem to have sprung into existence in the mid-1910s in the South. But other amusements, from rowdy Medieval rituals, to vaudeville songs about cheating spouses, to peculiar goings-on in American parlors in the mid-1800s—including seances…
Draggin’ for Dixie: How the United Daughters of the Confederacy Gave Womanless Weddings Their Big Start
Full disclosure: We had wanted to title this episode "Dixie Chicks With D*cks," but then thought the better of it. Did you know that no less a conservative stalwart than the United Daughters of the Confederacy gave Womanless Weddings their start? Yup, men dragged-up to raise money for all those sto…
Discount Debutantes: How Clementine Miller Rescued New York’s Elite Daughters
It wasn't just men who needed help with weddings and such. In the 1950s and 1960s, Clementine Miller staged elaborate balls for Manhattan debutantes who hadn't yet found Mr. Good-Enough. Meanwhile, Joshua shares an exchange he had with Don Lemon (who may, or may not, have compared himself to Jesus)…
An Attitude Worth Imitating - Philippians
Philippians 2:5-11 | Joshua Dudley | 05 July 2026 (Afternoon Service)
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