Editing Drag queen (section)

=== Canada ===
In the 1940s [[John Herbert (playwright)|John Herbert]], who sometimes competed in drag pageants, was the victim of an attempted robbery while he was dressed as a woman.<ref name="theatre">[http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=John%20Herbert John Herbert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507080727/https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=John%20Herbert |date=7 May 2022 }} at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.</ref>{{refn|group=nb|One source asserts that the attack occurred in 1947,<ref name="theatre" /> another is vague on the timing,<ref name="BodyPolitic" /> and ''The New York Times'' obituary of Herbert asserts that it occurred during Herbert's teens.<ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/theater/john-herbert-dies-at-75-wrote-of-prison-life.html "John Herbert Dies at 75; Wrote of Prison Life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124123526/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/theater/john-herbert-dies-at-75-wrote-of-prison-life.html |date=24 November 2022 }}. ''[[The New York Times]]'', 27 June 2001.</ref> The cause of the confusion may be the conflation of this arrest with Herbert's subsequent arrest for gross indecency. He served another sentence for indecency at reformatory in Mimico in 1948.<ref name="theatre" />}} His assailants falsely claimed that Herbert had solicited them for sex,<ref name="theatre" /> and Herbert was accused and convicted of indecency<ref name="theatre" /> under Canada's [[LGBT rights in Canada|same-sex sexual activity law]] (which was not repealed until 1969).<ref>{{Cite web | author=Canadian Heritage |date=2017-10-23 |title=Rights of LGBTI persons |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/rights-lgbti-persons.html |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=www.canada.ca |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105205012/https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/rights-lgbti-persons.html |url-status=live }}</ref> After being convicted, Herbert served time in a youth [[reformatory]] in [[Guelph|Guelph, Ontario]].<ref name="BodyPolitic">{{cite journal|title="That Man's Scope" John Herbert Now|journal=The Body Politic|date=1973|volume=10|pages=12–13, 25|url=https://archive.org/stream/bodypolitic10toro#page/12/mode/2up|access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Dickinson">{{cite journal|last1=Dickinson|first1=Peter|title=Critically Queenie: The Lessons of ''Fortune and Men's Eyes''|journal=Canadian Journal of Film Studies|date=2002|volume=11|issue=2|pages=19–43|doi=10.3138/cjfs.11.2.19|url=http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/pdf/cj-film-studies112_Dickinson_queenie.pdf|access-date=10 August 2016|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221636/http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/pdf/cj-film-studies112_Dickinson_queenie.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="litenc" />{{refn|group=nb|One source states that Herbert was imprisoned for six months at Guelph,<ref name="BodyPolitic" /> while another states that he spent four months there.<ref name="theatre" />}} Herbert later served another sentence for indecency at reformatory in [[Mimico]].<ref name="theatre" /> Herbert wrote ''[[Fortune and Men's Eyes]]'' in 1964 based on his time behind bars.<ref name="litenc">[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5246 John Herbert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207192514/https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5246 |date=7 December 2018 }} at [[The Literary Encyclopedia (English)|The Literary Encyclopedia]].</ref> He included the character of Queenie as an authorial [[self-insertion]].<ref name="theatre" />{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=source does not make the connection that it is in fact a self-insert (even though that would be extremely obvious reading)}}

In 1973 the first Canadian play about and starring a drag queen, ''[[Hosanna (play)|Hosanna]]'' by [[Michel Tremblay]], was performed at [[Théâtre de Quat'Sous]] in [[Montreal]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tremblay |first1=Michel |translator-last1=Van Burek |translator-first1=John |translator-last2=Glassco |translator-first2=Bill |year=1991 |orig-year=1973 |title=Hosanna |location=Vancouver, BC |publisher=Leméac Éditeur}}</ref>
 	
In 1977 the Canadian film ''[[Outrageous!]]'', starring drag queen [[Craig Russell (Canadian actor)|Craig Russell]], became one of the first gay-themed films to break out into mainstream theatrical release.