En route to Graceland, testing the boundaries of gender

boston.com – By Sandy MacDonald

When it comes to cross-dressing, drag queens seem to get all the play. For several decades now, they’ve been positively mainstreamed: Dame Edna is back on Broadway for a third time, and Portia is a regular on “The Wanda Sykes Show.” Yet if you try to think of a female-to-male counterpart, the roster is a near-blank: New York’s emcee-about-town Murray Hill is about it. Meanwhile, a Mississippi school district has called off this year’s prom because one brave young woman announced her intention to wear a tux while escorting her girlfriend.