Clare Sears is an associate professor of sociology and sexuality studies at San Francisco State University, California. They are author of the book Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Duke University Press, 2014).

03.15.2023

Clare Sears

This Isn’t the First Time Conservatives Have Banned Cross-Dressing in America

The recent spree of cross-dressing bans has a precedent in the harassment, imprisonment, and deportation of so-called sexual deviants in the US since the 19th century. Civil rights campaigners defeated reactionaries in the ’60s. They can do the same today.

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This Isn’t the First Time Conservatives Have Banned Cross-Dressing in America