The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America (ed. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2014) - ISBN: 9780299302641