This gender bending performer is one we are presenting in a series to celebrate NYC Pride Week. Gilbert Sarony (sometimes rendered Saroni) was remembered as one of the earliest and funniest of the vaudeville female impersonators. He sprang out of minstrelsy (where the minstrel “wench” was a popular specialty.) As late as 1882 we encounter him […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:32AM on June 25, 2013