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Strange Brother (1932) 210: The Drag Ball [...] was a great masquerade party to which men went in fancy dress — went in the costumes of women. The men, so dressed, were called ‘drags’ [...] The men dressed in what Harlem calles ‘drag,’ men in the garb of women. Strange Brother (1932) 254: Peggy, who was so often what June called a ‘dumb bunny’. Strange Brother (1932) 23: ‘He’s entirely gone.’ ‘Yes, blotto!’. Strange Brother (1932) 196: The police would raid the place, and for a time the ‘Nellies’ would vanish. [Ibid.] 273: Did you know a boy called ‘Nelly,’ over there on the Island? Strange Brother (1932) 274: That’s what they call a male prostitute, call him a peddler, and I was no peddler. Strange Brother (1932) 216: Glory fell unconsciously into use of the feminine gender. It seemed natural to use ‘she’ and ‘her’ in speaking of these ‘fairies’. Strange Brother (1932) 148: There’s Patsy Muller. She’s a warm baby.