Some critics, such as Jacqueline Pearson, have argued that these cross-dressing roles subvert conventional gender roles by allowing women to imitate the roistering and sexually aggressive behaviour of male Restoration rakes, but Elizabeth Howe has objected in a detailed study that the male disguise was " little more than yet another means of displaying the actress as a sexual object ".

Later in the series his father was revealed to be a successful cross-dressing singer and committed homosexual who was seduced by a female colleague while drunk.

Although Old Arcadia has never suffered the indignity of too much popularity, it has entertained a small set of readers for over 400 years with its sensational treatment of sex, politics, violence, soporifics, mobs, and cross-dressing.

Court records show him pleading before Lord Mansfield in the Court of King's Bench soon after his election, and acting as counsel in Tonson v Collins, a copyright case, Thiquet v Bath, an important case on international law, and R v d ' Eon, acting for the prosecution in a feud over Louis XV's newly appointed cross-dressing Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

In his 1993 biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, the journalist Anthony Summers quoted " society divorcee " Susan Rosenstiel as claiming to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing in the 1950s at homosexual parties.

Seinen manga, particularly that aimed at otaku, also occasionally presents eroticized adolescent males in a non-pornographic context, such as the cross-dressing 16-year-old boy in Yubisaki Milk Tea.

In a related event, model Angelica Marie Cecora also announced she would sue De La Hoya after an alleged drug-fueled romp at the Ritz-Carlton in Midtown, on March 15, 2011, where she says he went wild with drugs, booze, sex toys and cross-dressing antics.

Brad and Janet try to leave at this point, but are stopped when Dr. Frank N. Furter, a pansexual, cross-dressing mad scientist, arrives.

Sir Henry's final appearance was in a television commercial for Ruddles Real Ale ( c. 1994 ), where he is portrayed by a cross-dressing Dawn French, presiding over a family banquet at a long table.

When cross-dressing occurs for erotic purposes over a period of at least six months and when it causes significant distress or impairment, the behavior is considered a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders called transvestic fetishism.

In other 1994 work, Sheen appeared in Le Livre de Spencer at the Odéon-Théâtre de l ' Europe, Paris and starred in the cross-dressing farce Charley's Aunt at the Royal Exchange.

Eventually, Gay withdrew from social life, developing an addiction to alcohol and was involved in cross-dressing, which humiliated his son, who spied on his father dressing in his mother's clothes at twelve.

Viola is not alone among Shakespeare's cross-dressing heroines ; in Shakespeare's theatre, convention dictated that adolescent boys play the roles of female characters, creating humour in the multiplicity of disguise found in a female character who for a while pretended at masculinity.

* Florencia de La V began cross-dressing at the age of 17.

Bodies found at the scene of an accidental death often show evidence of other paraphilic activities, such as fetishistic cross-dressing and masochism.

; a space tracking agent in the Austin Powers series ; another flight controller Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ; a cross-dressing man named ' Nipples ' in Little Nicky ; the title character in the 1995 low-budget comedy-horror film Ice Cream Man ; he played Rughead, a nervous and often annoying auto technician in the 1986 science fiction film The Wraith ; the title role of Stanley Coopersmith in the horror movie Evilspeak ; Kate the Caterer in The Cat in the Hat ; featured briefly in Rob Zombie's Halloween ; and appeared in the romantic comedies Play the Game and Speed-Dating.

The most popular male cross-dressing matriarch to have performed in these plays was GT Lye, whose baju panjangs were made by Aljunied Brothers at Arab Street.

Traditionally performed at Christmas, with family audiences, British pantomime is now a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo.

However, Ousu succeeded in defeating his enemies, in the latter case by cross-dressing as a maid servant attendant at a drinking party ( see image left ).

" Buckingham also suggests that Pete was also publicly humiliated on a number of occasions, with the most " remarkable example " being shown in 1987, after he was victim to a practical joke and attended an alleged cross-dressing party at The Queen Victoria public house as the only person in full drag.

cross-dressing do not get involved at all in the bondage, D / s or sadomasochism scenes, and as such reject the label BDSM, but still consider themselves part of the alternative community.

Some people automatically connect cross-dressing behavior to transgender identity or sexual, fetishist, and homosexual behavior, but the term cross-dressing itself does not imply any motives.

There is a rich history of cross-dressing found in folklore, literature, theater, and music.

There are many different kinds of cross-dressing and many different reasons why an individual might engage in cross-dressing behavior.

In this case, a person's cross-dressing may or may not be apparent to other people.

Drag is a special form of performance art based on the act of cross-dressing.

Transgender people who are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment therapy are usually not regarded as cross-dressing.

Namely, a transsexual who has completed gender reassignment surgery is certainly not considered cross-dressing, unless they were to wear clothes of the gender opposite of what they have transitioned to.

Female masking is a form of cross-dressing in which men wear masks that present them as female.

The actual determination of cross-dressing is largely socially constructed.

For example, in Western society, trousers have been adopted for wear by women, and it is not regarded as cross-dressing.

In cultures where men have traditionally worn skirt-like garments such as the kilt or sarong these are not seen as female clothing, and wearing them is not seen as cross-dressing for men.

Our culture is very skewed about cross-dressing.

Some psychoanalysts today do not regard cross-dressing by itself a psychological problem, unless it interferes with the functioning of a person's life.

Chandler has a peculiar family history being the son of an erotic novelist mother, and a cross-dressing Las Vegas star father.

In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, same-sex sexual behaviour and cross-dressing were widely considered to be socially unacceptable, and were serious crimes under sodomy and sumptuary laws.

The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi-autobiographical in nature.

Wanting to know more about cross-dressing, Warren seeks out Dr. Alton, who narrates for him the story of Glen / Glenda.

Another transvestite friend of his, John, tells Glen how cross-dressing ended his marriage.

The mainstream interpretation of Qur ' anic verses and hadith condemn homosexuality and cross-dressing.

Although never corroborated, the allegation of cross-dressing has been widely repeated.