Leila J. Rupp is a professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of many books, including A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America and Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women. Verta Taylor is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of many books, including Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression. Together, Rupp and Taylor are the authors of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s and Feminist Frontiers.
"""The book will certainly find a general audience, and I imagine the queens of the 801 Cabaret themselves will find it to be fabulous bedtime reading. . . . [The book] will stand as a testament to the rich and imaginative texture of queer lives in the twenty-first century.""--Judith Halberstam ""Journal of the History of Sexuality"" ""Rupp and Taylor have trumped all the other researchers with Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, an in-depth look at a Duval Street institution in Key West. Scholarly, well-informed, and filled with fascinating people and their stories--the drag queens in their double lives as well as those who associate with them--the book is utterly entertaining.""-- ""Gay & Lesbian Review"" 2005 Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association --American Sociological Association ""Distinguished Book Award"""