My Butch Career: An Interview With Esther Newton
Resisting gender conformity, coming out in the nineteen-seventies, and fighting for world liberation.
I interviewed Esther Newton about her new memoir, My Butch Career on June 20, 2019. Newton earned her PhD in 1968 and published Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (1972), the first major anthropological study of a gay-identified community in America. Though she researched drag queen culture and desired women sexually, Newton resisted the norms of ...
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