The only differences are that goths have more facial piercings, and cross-dressers wear heels instead of combat boots. But there's also a really interesting element of gender transgression going on in the goth community. At an earlier party, I met Ryan and Reverend Moses. He'd applied liberal amounts of white powder to his face, and highlighted his eyes with dark grey liner. Reverend Moses wore black stirrup pants under his long wool skirt.
Nothing fazes that bunch.
What I admire about the goth community is the attitude. I recently heard that the reason punks shaved their heads was to look like the Nazi concentration camp prisoners. Similarly the goths see nothing desirable about being normal. And when you've learned to love being a freak, people can't use it as a weapon against you. What I've noticed in the transgender community is a move to redefine 'normal' in a way that includes transgender behaviour.