Fairies (jul 6, 1870 – jul 13, 1930)
Description:
Most visible representatives of “sexual deviance”Bore brunt of social stigma and served as models for people trying to fashion queer identity
Gay slang helped mediate contradictions produced in their lives by stigmatization as non-men
Developed own cultural means to mark selves as men and challenge the social order that feminizes them as opposed to having their own separate identities
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Date:
jul 6, 1870
jul 13, 1930
~ 60 years