craig: julian eltinge was one of the most famous men in america at the turn of the century.s like a magic trick. i think that was how a lot of audiences viewed him. lillian: what's fascinating about that phenomenon is that you couldn't go out on the streets dressed in clothes of the opposite sex, but people flocked the vaeville theaters and movie thears to see instces of male impersonators and female impersonators. ♪♪♪ john duran: we are the aberration. we are the non-conforming sexual status, so we have to find one another and we're not painted with a lavender stripe down our face, right? so it's not apparent who is gay or who's homosexual. so there has to be some contact, some sort of dance or interplay that happens before there's a sexual bargain that's made. speaker: sometimes you would look into a person's eyes, he would look into your eyes, and all of a sudden you'd know through the eyes. after you had cruised each other by chasing each other back and forth from looking in the same window at the same thing for quite a while, you might ask the person, "do you have a mat