Go Girl, (continued)

Since its first few appearances on the Moscow scene in the late 1980's, drag has slowly been making a comeback in Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, clubs with regularly scheduled drag performances have been opened, and performers periodically rent out theaters for shows.

As in most countries, drag here is a magnet for controversy. St. Petersburg's drag club, Mayak, is in a battle to remain open after repeated bomb threats phoned in to the club's management curtailed numbers at the club. And most performers, while no longer concealing the fact in stores that they are buying dresses for themselves, nevertheless keep a very low profile outside of their own circles, for fear of prejudice and attack.