Mar 24, 2023
Every year every town and city in the U.K. puts on a pantomime at Christmas, and tens of thousands of children go and see them, and in every one there is a pantomime dame, a middle aged man in drag who is an ally to the hero of the story normally his mother
And the hero, the principal boy as the archetype is called is a young male character played by a young actress
Cross dressing in entertainment has a long and storied history, from the Greeks and Romans, through Shakespeare, the light comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan, to the ww2 anti aircraft gunners whose drag show was interrupted and they had to scramble to man the gun
