Drag Queens and Beauty QueensThe Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Missd America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Missd America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a