Citations:dragbar

English citations of dragbar

2017, Juan Caballero, What They Didn't Teach You in Spanish Class:
Confusingly for the language learner, however, queer Spanish speakers often neutralize gay-bashing terms by using the affectionately, calling one another "Faggy" (Marica), for instance, just as flippantly as they might call each other "Fatty" (Gordito) or "Darky" (Negrito). But the effect is all in your tone, so make sure you use the following words like a sweetly smirking hostess serving at the dragbar, and not like some degenerate skinhead sulking out in front of it.

1998, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook:
Growing up, I was desperate to find an outlet where I could be a girl; but was greatly disappointed at the lack of available role models. The only visible route were drag bars, but that didn't seem like a safe environment, so I avoided them.
2008, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Controversies in Science & Technology, page 449:
The entire concept of a female mimic is another locker-room fantasy of sexual-selection theorists — a guy fooled by a queen at a drag bar.
2011, Cherie Priest, Bloodshot:
I saw two long black cars pulling up to the block where the drag bar had all too recently been the scene of several murders (on my part), and the fleeing of one great drag queen (on Adrian's part).
2013, Berlitz, Berlitz: Japan Pocket Guide:
The best-known quarter in Tokyo is Shinjuku 2-chome, but there are clubs, discos and drag bars in Roppongi and other areas as well.