Gay men in drag
I'vealreadytold you what I've learned from being married to drag queen, so I thought I would continue along those lines and debunk 10 myths about flamboyant queens. Some of these are myths I myself believed before Jeff created Vivian, and others are myths I learned existed only after getting involved in the drag community.
1. All drag queens are gay.
It's correct that the majority of flamboyant queens are gay, but there is a small minority of queens who are straight. I honestly did not know this until I watched some of the audition tapes for last season of RuPaul's Drag Race. One of the contestants stated that even though he performs in drag, he is percent straight. I was shocked to learn this, but it makes sense, because drag is an art form, not a way of life.
2. Drag queens want to be women.
OK, sadly, this is one of the myths I believed before I knew any better. Before I met Vivian and other kingly queens, I believed that anyone who does drag wants to be a woman, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Though it is correct that some drag gueens are transgender women, the
Why do people execute drag?
Dear Wondering,
For centuries, people participated in drag, an entertainment style that involves dressing up in clothes stereotypically worn by another gender. Drag queens (like your friend) often perform in historically feminine clothing and mannerisms while drag kings often perform in historically masculine clothing and mannerisms. While people within the queer woman , gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) communities may have more advocacy in the flamboyant community, people may dress as flamboyant kings or queens regardless of their sex, gender individuality, or sexual orientation. Drag may be done for a variety of reasons including to create a political utterance on gender roles, to feel free and confident in another persona, to entertain themselves and an audience, to find community, and more.
It can be important when talking about drag to make the distinction between cross-dressing and drag. While the origin of the term “drag” is unclear, it may have been inspired by the dense dresses that people once wore at cross-dressing balls
We have to spill the tea, but this second, there's no shade. Queenly is enjoying one of its most popular periods in herstory.
Thanks largely to the success of RuPaul's Drag Race, the art form is now seen regularly on mainstream TV channels, magazine covers and is the subject of multiple vlogs and podcasts.
But the story of flamboyant goes back far further than the time the competition has been on the air and made RuPaul Charles a global superstar at the similar time. As his fellow Drag Race judge Michelle Visage may even be persuaded to say: ‘Honey, it goes back centuries’.
Beginning with the Bard
Drag began out of necessity, although that’s not to speak its participants didn’t appreciate it. When Shakespearean theatre was shiny and recent in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the stage wasn’t just a place of amusement. It had strong links to the church and with that came rules that only men could tread the boards. If that play you were in featured a not many female roles, then it was up to a couple of the men in the cast to dress as members of the opposite sex so the story didn’t su
Drag queens, otherwise known as “female impersonators," are most typically gay cisgender men (though there are many drag queens of varying sexual orientations and gender identities) who perform and entertain on stage in nightclubs and bars.
Dressed in stereotypical feminine clothing and with elaborate makeup and wigs, they usually adopt an eccentric persona or a character that might act as a means of self-expression of their own personalities or authorize them to characterize various personality attributes in request to entertain.
It is vital here to note that performing in drag is not necessarily rooted in questioning one's gender individuality, though this is a common misconception. Drag queens put forth enormous endeavor and financial cost to establish an ensemble of makeup, outfits, wigs, and also must develop skills at using these means to transform themselves into their highly adorned characters. Their performances commonly involve lip-syncing and dancing to popular music or other talents such as stand-up comedy.
Drag kings, on the other hand, are just the opposite of drag queens