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Meet 'Fanny and Stella'—two 'sisters' who were actually male lovers in Victorian England
Manchester's Drag Ball, 1880. Held at the Temperance Hall. A group calling themselves 'The Pawnbrokers Assistance Association. They tried to protect guests identities with a bouncer at the door dressed as a nun, black paper on the windows and a blind accordion player. Det. Jerome Caminada saw 'Men Dressed in the most fantastic fashion and 8 of them in the garb of women'. 50 charged, 50 not guilty of anything. 5 years later the law was changed