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  2. Drag Race terminology - Wikipedia

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    dance move where a queen dramatically falls back into a stroke pose, usually at the end of a lipsync or during a beat drop drag mother [2] [6] / dragmother [7] an established drag queen who mentors a new queen, her "daughter"; many queens use the same last name as their drag mother, creating "family" lineages, sometimes called "houses" eat it

  3. Queen (slang) - Wikipedia

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    A bedroom queen is a drag queen who mainly does their drag at home in the bedroom rather than publicly. The term drag queen usually refers to people who dress in drag for the purpose of performing, whether singing or lip-synching, dancing, participating in events such as gay pride parades, drag pageants, or at venues such as cabarets and ...

  4. Drag (entertainment) - Wikipedia

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    Two drag queens with a woman (left) and a drag king (far right) in Wild Side Story in Los Angeles 1977. A drag queen (first use in print, 1941) is a person, usually a man, that dresses in drag, either as part of a performance or for personal fulfillment. The term "drag queen" distinguishes such men from transvestites, transsexuals or ...

  5. Are you a ‘Mother’? What to know about the slang word - AOL

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    What to know about the slang word “Mother": the ... a mother can be a ‘drag mother’ who teaches a new queen the art and perhaps the business of drag or vogue or emceeing — a present figure ...

  6. Spilling the tea: How centuries of drag culture gave us ... - AOL

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    The history of "yas," "work," "gagging" and "hunty" are not as glamorous or simplistic as you might think.

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  8. Drag queen - Wikipedia

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    Drag queens at Sydney Mardi Gras, 2012 RuPaul, American drag queen, actor, and musician. A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.

  9. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."