cross-dressing
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She was also a master of disguise, her cross-dressing outfits so carefully designed that law enforcement officials, studying bank surveillance tapes, had no idea they were chasing a woman.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2025
But Erica Ford, as a cross-dressing game poacher and archer-in-disguise named Ralph, provides the kind of character and performance that delivers new blood and enlivens an old story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Mullen reminds his bandmates of their 1990s penchant for cross-dressing.
From BBC • May 22, 2025
“Klinger probably destroyed my life,” she says of the cross-dressing “M.A.S.H.” character played for laughs by Jamie Farr.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024
There’s even a duo with a woman cross-dressing as Kenny Rogers for a rendition of “Islands in the Stream.”
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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