All in all, the project helped both his daughter and her parents broaden their horizons, he said. For all I know, people thought it was about drag racing. No need for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decency committee here. The idea for her thesis came when she met one of the female impersonators at a party. She still remembers her first impression.
Mom calls it energy.
So she asked permission to photograph, interview and study the performers and spent more than a year doing so, even following them as far as Northern Michigan University, where they performed one of their many benefit shows. Her first look at a performance was the icebreaker. You know, the high class, low class . . . To a point. One grandmother doesn't approve of the lifestyle or, apparently, the project, Theresa Schauer said.