 | The Drag King Book by Judith "Jack" Halberstam
Buy new: $27.30 / Used from: $9.94 Good, but buy it primarily for the interviews and the amazing pictures. It's sort of analytic, and reads very dryly at times.
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 | The Drag King Anthology
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $12.95 I haven't read it, but I hear it's very analytical, more so than 'The Drag King Book'. More like a gender studies dissertation, I'm guessing.
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 | Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate by Susan Smith
Buy used from: $9.75 Fiction book about an older female professor who meets a young butch tattoo artist. I haven't read it, but if it's got drag kings, well, hey!
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 | Drag Kings: Queer Masculinities in Focus (Sexual Politics)
Buy used from: $180.91 Photographic essay on drag kings. I haven't seen it yet, but it's probably very nice.
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 | Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.79 Fiction book features characters from a bar specifically catering to drag kings. Sounds good enough- I'll need to check it out.
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 | The Art of Drag Kinging by Dante DiFranco
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $20.59 A virtual how-to book on being a drag king, from tips on appearance and performance, to fun tidbits of information. Very fun and readable.
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 | Boys Don't Cry
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.49 Based on a true story of a girl who passes as a boy in a small town, and then is raped and killed by her friends when they find out.
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 | Yentl
To study the Jewish faith, Barbara Streisand puts on male clothing.
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 | Mulan (Special Edition)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $11.05 In order to take her father's place to fight in the war, Mulan dons a male persona.
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 | Tipping the Velvet
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $16.22 And the book by the same name. Features a male impersonator. I haven't seen it or read the book.
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 | The Nanny - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.75 I'm putting this in because Season 2 is not out yet. Check out episode 2.9 "Stock Tip" where Fran dresses as a man to get into a men's-only club.
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 | Sex and the City: The Complete Third Season
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $14.40 Episode 4 on Season 3 "Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl" features Charlotte posing as a man for a photographer of drag kings.
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 | Pecker
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.43 I haven't seen it, but supposedly famous drag king Mo B. Dick stars as T-Bone in it, which is incentive enough to rent it!
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 | Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway Production)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.95 Julie Andrews playing a transvestite man. Sure, it's her as a woman a lot, but also her as a man.
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 | Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.95 Gwenyth Paltrow dresses as a boy to be able to act, and looks quite charming doing it.
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 | Twelfth Night
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.15 Ah, Shakespeare loves to mess with disguises, especially cross-gender. Viola dresses up as Cesario.
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 | Venus Boyz
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.69 A drag king documentary. I haven't seen it, but I'm dying to.
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 | The Ballad of Little Jo
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $1.99 For reasons of safety up in the mountains, a woman disguises herself as a man. I haven't seen it, not exactly drag king, but still.
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