There are 1000 reasons men wear women's clothes. Each queen you see has their own personal reason. For some it may be the power they feel by wearing women's things. Like the Executive that wears lace panties under his suit. What about the occasional queen, let's get in drag and have some good clean fun. Even the occasional queen has a reason why they dress in drag.

But let's start at the source of the word. D-R-A-G, Dressed as a girl, written in the side notes of William Shakespeare's theatrical triumphs. At that time women were not allowed to perform on stage so it was up to the guys to bustle up and play the parts of the female. Another theory is that when men wore gowns with bustles in them they would drag the ground. I would much prefer to believe the Shakespeare version. But let's get back to the story.

The men that wear women's clothes, that are the most remarkable, are the
contest groomed female impersonator. The ones that you can't tell they are anatomically incorrect as to what you see. These "girls" look like models, and work very hard at it. Some of them actually "cross-over" through the looking glass and live their lives as women, turning heads, never giving a clue that they... well, stand to pee.

Now there has to be a point to all this dressing up, and there is,entertainment. Female impersonation has been a major part of theentertainment industry for many years. Milton Berle, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Lemon, the list goes on and on. But for the off screen impersonator, this was your art. You could look like Judy Garland, Liza, and Whitney (pre-crack). You could be anyone you wanted to be, considering you had the talent and the venue.

Drag bars were the place to go to see the best female impersonators doing your favorite songs, some obscure novelty song, and a torch song or just to make you laugh. The majority of bars were dance bars that had shows a couple of nights a week. There were bars that were specifically designed to
hold shows every night. Like a theater with legendary female entertainers that are really men.

I did drag for many years before I hung my wig up, and I loved to see the audience laugh! It was the best feeling to find a song and develop a costume and routine that I knew would bring the audience to their feet. My drag career was so rewarding, I mentored gay youth, was on Jerry Springer (before it was fights and swearing) the Morton Downey Show too. I think my biggest thrill was performing at Wigstock in New York. A sea of people and some of the greatest names in entertainment were there. I worked at most of the clubs in Chicago and toured the Midwest and East Coast from Myrtle Beach to Atlantic City.

My reason for doing drag was to entertain. Purely theatrical; I created a character and promoted her. It started many years ago when I was going for theater auditions. I always was cast, but it was in the chorus, or as an extra, because of my size. Well one night I was at our local gay club in Central Illinois and saw a group of older men that were fat and bald, but they were the most hilarious performance that I had ever seen. Then it hit me. This is theater. So I started to dabble in drag, dressing up a little on occasion then I decided to enter a local contest. I knew that if I did something original, funny and got the judges attention I would at least place. I won. That was the turning point of Daisy Mae's drag career; it just became more professional and fun.

So if you are just noodling with the idea of donning women's things, go ahead explore! Find your reason to wear women's clothes.