History repeating (this is talking about the 1930s):
"Police told Variety that acts contained 'nothing obscene or immoral in show...but [we’d] like it stopped anyhow'...The increased anxieties around nightclubs that featured drag were multiplied by societal backlash against sexuality, since many of the clubs associated with drag were considered gathering places for Minneapolis’s queer community..."
https://www.mnopedia.org/drag-performance-minnesota-1880-1950