Was Margaret Thatcher a Drag Queen?
Ben Walters
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Posted 14.06.2013
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UK Lifestyle
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Obviously, I don't mean Margaret Thatcher was a man in women's clothing. That's not really what drag is about: it's about drawing attention to the public performance of gender. Like many drag acts, her performance slid between the glamorous, the parodic and the grotesque, but there's no question that it was sensationally successful.
