History Main / Crossdresser

** ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' did this all the time, too.

* ''Series/NightAndDay'''s Fiona Brake and Dennis Doyle both have forays into cross-dressing; and in the final episode, set four years into the future, we learn that Ryan Harper now wears women’s clothes and goes by the name of Beverly.

Distinguished from DragQueen, which tends to be strongly associated with gay men and has an inherent aspect of "performance." Also ''not'' to be confused with {{Transsexual}}, which describes people who identify as a different gender than they were assigned at birth. There's always potential for overlap, however. A drag queen may ''also'' dress as a woman while "offstage," and thus be a crossdresser as well. Some people may start out as "merely" crossdressers, only to eventually discover that they are transsexual.

Distinguished from DragQueen, which tends to be strongly associated with gay men and has an inherent aspect of "performance." Also ''not'' to be confused with {{Transsexual}}, which describes a people who consider themselves to ''be'' members of the "opposite" sex. There's always potential for overlap, however. A drag queen may ''also'' dress as a woman while "offstage," and thus be a crossdresser as well. Some people may start out as "merely" crossdressers, only to eventually discover that they are truly transsexual.

* Sparkes Lukanta of ''[[http://www.thewretchedones.smackjeeves.com The Wretched Ones]]'' cross dresses as a female on a daily basis.

->''"Whatever happened to [[KingKong Fay Wray]]?\\

-->--'''[[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Dr. Frank N. Furter]]'''

* Lady Fiona Fiziwigg of the mystery/adventure webcomic ''TheContinentals'' cross dresses and lives her life as a man. Read it [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Continentals here.]]
* Sparkes Lukanta of [[http://www.thewretchedones.smackjeeves.com The Wretched Ones]] cross dresses as a female on a daily basis.

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-->--[[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Dr. Frank N. Furter]].

Crossdressers may be men dressing as women, or women dressing as men. Contrary to popular belief, crossdressing does not necessarily imply homosexuality. Sexuality being a fluid, confusing and often contradictory thing, no hard and fast rules can be drawn about crossdressers and transvestites. An element of sexual arousal ("transvestic fetishism") may be involved in dressing, but not necessarily. And sometimes the primary purpose for crossdressing is simply disguise. This supertrope covers all the various possibilities and permutations.

** ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did this in every episode. It probably helped that the troupe didn't usually have any women anyway, so at least some of the crossdressing was actually pretty necessary.

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That elegant, satin-draped frame?\\

->''"Whatever happened to Fay Wray?\\

For I wished to be dressed just the same!"''