Matthew Gilbert in The
Boston Globe, March 21, 1993:
Add to this visual pop lexicon the newest hip eye-opener:
cross-dressing. As if to punctuate the end of the socially stagnant
Reagan era, a parade of drag images is now crossing screens big and
small, mostly men bedecked in wigs, lipstick, and scarfs to hide their
protruding Adam's apples... Along with symbolizing self-empowerment,
cross-dressers also can remind us that sex roles and costumes are
fictional. Men wear pants because American society tells them to.
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