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In addition to interviewing female impersonators in depth, Professor Newton visited a vast number of clubs in Chicago, New York, Kansas City, and San Francisco and lived and worked with a number of differ- ent impersonators. She found there were three types of places who use impersonators: gay bars, tourist clubs, and chic nightclubs. Most work in gay bars, and in many of them there is almost no distinction between professionals and amateurs with impersonators drifting in and out of acts and on to the streets. The material is aimed mainly at homosexuals. The tourist club is somewhat more expensive, and caters to a heterosex- ual audience. She listed the 82 Club in New York City, the My-Oh-My in New Orleans, the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City, and Finnochio's in San Francisco as representative of this group. Above these are the chic nightclubs who only occasionally offer a female impersonator and where the prices are extremely high. The point of this is to offer a word of caution to those TV's who think the way to introduce transvestism to their wives or girl friends is through female impersonation shows. Make sure, if this is your plan, that the show is in a tourist or chic nightclub. Otherwise most of show will be directed at a homosexual audience which might get you into more trouble than it is worth.

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"That Joe Ridgley will try anything to get to sit down on a bus."

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