Yeah, but back then GeeDubs correctly noted the obsessiveness of the practice. Indeed, this is a typical case of the authors jeering at this or that subject. In the particular of the cultists of the Jade Scepter, they also refer to themselves as Deviants & Decadents, and their cult leader as the Deviant Master. In a different case, they had a goblin in a dress (a female wizard's dress. The goblin believed donning it would grant him the powers of magic). This was supposed to be humorous, and not an endorsement of drag.