Title: The "drag queens"
Description: Esther Newton's PhD dissertation examined the experiences, social interactions, and culture of drag queens, or (mostly gay-identified) men who dressed and performed as women in various kinds of theatrical settings or as an expression/performance of their sexual identity. 

Later published in several articles and in 1972 as *Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America*, Newton's work represented the first major anthropological study of a homosexual community in the United States, and laid some of the groundwork for theorists such as Judith Butler, who would later explore the performative dimensions of sex and gender roles.
Subjects: LGBTQ anthropology