Editing Drag queen (section)

==== Night clubs ====
In the early to mid-1900s, female impersonation had become tied to the [[LGBT community]] and thus criminality, so it had to change forms and locations.<ref name=":0">{{citation |last=Boyd |first=Nan Alamilla |title=Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/25351 |year=2003 |access-date=1 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730041610/https://muse.jhu.edu/book/25351 |url-status=live |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520938748 |archive-date=30 July 2020 }}</ref>  It moved from being popular mainstream entertainment to something done only at night in disreputable areas, such as San Francisco's [[Tenderloin, San Francisco|Tenderloin]].<ref name=":0" />  Here female impersonation started to evolve into what we today know as [[Drag (clothing)|drag]] and drag queens.<ref name=":3">Baker, Roger. ''Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts''. NYU Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0814712533}}{{page needed|date=June 2020}}
</ref>{{Failed verification|date=July 2023|reason=could not find this in this source. in fact, the source seems eager to except the concept of drag back into history, even if it was not called the same, he makes a solid case for the style of performance to be part of a similar tradition.

If he claims "Modern emergence/form of drag was [year]" and you find it, please add page number by making it superscript.}}  Drag queens such as [[José Sarria]]<ref>"The Drag Times." ''Drag'', 1980. Archives of Sexuality.
</ref> first came to prominence in these clubs.<ref name=":0" />  People went to these [[Gay nightclub|nightclubs]] to play with the boundaries of gender and sexuality and it became a place for the LGBT community, especially gay men, to feel accepted.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=Alison|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB0sAwAAQBAJ&q=drag+show&pg=PA103|title=Changing Sex and Bending Gender|last2=Ardener|first2=Shirley|date=1 October 2005|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-0-85745-885-8|language=en}}</ref>

As [[LGBT culture]] has slowly become more accepted in American society, drag has also become more, though not totally, acceptable in today's society.<ref name=":3" /> In the 1940s and 1950s, [[Arthur Blake (American actor)|Arthur Blake]] was one of the few female impersonators to be successful in both gay and mainstream entertainment, becoming famous for his impersonations of [[Bette Davis]], [[Carmen Miranda]], and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] in night clubs.<ref name="variety">{{cite book|title=Obituaries: Arthur Blake|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|volume=318|issue=10|date=3 April 1985|page=87}}</ref><ref name="Spoken">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSU1e-XStVcC&q=%22Arthur%20Blake%22|title=Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Culture|pages=126–129|author=Jacob Smith|year=2011|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=9780520948358|access-date=19 March 2023|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413215118/https://books.google.com/books?id=cSU1e-XStVcC&q=%22Arthur%20Blake%22|url-status=live}}</ref> At the invitation of the Roosevelts, he performed his impersonation of Eleanor at the [[White House]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Obituaries: Arthur Blake|series=[[The Stage and Television Today]]|issue=5441|date=25 July 1985|page= 21}}</ref><ref name="variety"/> He impersonated Davis and Miranda in the 1952 film ''[[Diplomatic Courier]]''.<ref name="Courier">{{cite book|title=Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom|author=Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez|year=2021|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbwpEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22arthur+blake%22+%22diplomatic+courier%22&pg=PT329|publisher=[[Vanderbilt University Press]]|isbn=9780826503855|access-date=19 March 2023|archive-date=25 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425211157/https://books.google.com/books?id=TbwpEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22arthur+blake%22+%22diplomatic+courier%22&pg=PT329|url-status=live}}</ref>