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Jody Horowitz considers the status of drag queens in the queer community.
Drag queens made me nervous when I was an adolescent and navigating the quicksand of my awakening sexuality.
I was convinced they were the worst possible ambassadors for my struggle to emerge as a proud gay man. I was having enough difficulty carving out a convincingly masculine profile when the straight world only wanted to view me as another sissy; so why provide the world with the final conclusive evidence by wearing lipstick, eyeliner and a wig?