The Reader Travels

It’s amazing what you come up with if you search Yahoo! or Google for “Blanche Dubois Drag Queen.” You simply can’t count the number of drag queens who go by the stage name of Blanche Dubois.

Some people like to interpret that maybe Blanche really was a drag queen or a transsexual in A Streetcar Named Desire. She didn’t need the lights dimmed low to hide the wrinkles around her eyes. She needed to hide her Adam’s apple and the slight stubble upon her cheeks. Right?

But according to Tennessee Williams, if he wanted to write about a drag queen, he’d write about a drag queen. As a matter of fact, he did, in one of the recently rediscovered plays, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. Maybe we should all check that out.

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