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The Drag Queen and the Dictionary

Lacey is a drag queen. She's also a woman. To silence her critics, who say drag is for men only, Lacey wants to get the dictionary definition changed. Will she succeed?

Lacey is a drag queen. Her drag persona is Lacey-Lou, a pink, over the top, ultra fem with lots of feathers, pearls and lace. Lacey is also a woman and although she's been doing drag for seven years, she's been dogged by critics who screen-shot the dictionary definition to prove that drag is for men only. So Lacey approaches the Oxford English Dictionary in an attempt to get the dictionary definition changed, to remove its gender specificity and to give her detractors one less thing to throw at her and the many other female, trans and non-binary queens. But will she succeed?

Producer: Sara Conkey

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28 minutes

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Fri 10 Apr 2020 23:25

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  • Mon 9 Dec 2019 11:00
  • Fri 10 Apr 2020 23:25

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