male impersonator

He is what was once called a “male impersonator,” penciled-on mustache, compressed chest and all.

Stormé DeLarverie, a Stonewall activist who preferred the term “male impersonator” to “drag king,” passed for a man while touring America with the Jewel Box Revue in the ’50s and ’60s.

But how does Swift herself fare as a male impersonator?

Nan’s coming out is gradual: she falls for male impersonator Kitty Butler as soon as she sees her on stage, but quickly realises she has to keep her feelings to herself.

She was the male impersonator Kitty Butler in the 2002 adaptation of Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet.