The Governor in Drag
NY's First Drag Queen Governor: The New York Historical Society has a famous oil portrait of the gender-bending Cornbury, who was appointed governor of New York and New Jersey in 1701. But you wouldn't know it from the plaque mounted next to the painting, which identifies New York's original transvestite as an "unidentified woman." via Page Six
now polotics make sense
Posted by: Alex | Feb 01, 2005 at 06:28 PM