AUSTRALIAN FEMALE PERFORMERS OF MASCULINITY Timeline 1950 to 1980

Performer: Yogi Bear

Location: Sydney, NSW

Australia Performance Period: Late 1970s

Performance Type: Drag Performer

Biography:

Yogi Bear is a historically attested Sydney drag performer associated, in retrospective oral-history evidence, with drag shows at the Grand Hotel near Central Station in the late 1970s. The surviving account describes singing Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard songs and wearing a sequined or shimmery vest. No contemporary independent source has presently been located that establishes an exact date, first performance, first use of the stage name, or a broader performance chronology.

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