Sentence:  Here it is vital to turn up at least half an hour early, when you find a kitsch variety show, ostensibly staged by a Gibraltarian touring company, in full, ghastly progress. It is certainly nothing if not international: Austria is symbolised by lederhosen and dirndls; gay Paree by boaters and baguettes; and Scotland, somewhat libellously, by kilted, <WSD>epicene</WSD> figures singing "Donald, where's your troosers?" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of a man: effeminate.