An effeminate footballer insists on wearing feminine sportswear. Colour process print, 194-.

Date:
[between ca. 1940 and ca. 1949?]
Reference:
2059317i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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About this work

Publication/Creation

[England] : [publisher not identified], [between ca. 1940 and ca. 1949?]

Physical description

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; 13.8 x 8.8 cm.

Lettering

"He refuses to wear the regulation knickers, Sir". P. Copyright design.

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "An unequivocal depiction of an effeminate homosexual in semi-drag at a football match. A comic yet erroneous stereotype: men who like to wear women's underwear are far more likely to be heterosexual fetishists than gay".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2059317i

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