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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 ...
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.
Gene Malin — known as the "Queen of the Pansy Craze" — achieved relative mainstream success, appearing in both Hollywood films and Broadway shows. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] Malin worked primarily in New York City in the early 1930s; however, his career was cut short when he died in an automobile accident at the age of 25.
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."
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
William Dorsey Swann (March 1860 – c. December 23, 1925) [2] was an American activist. An African-American born into slavery, Swann was the first person in the United States to lead a gay resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag".
Drag performer Maxi Glamour reads “Leonardo the Terrible Monster,” a book about friendship, to a group of more than 20 children during the drag queen storytime event June 21, 2022, at the Glen ...
In his 1972 book Gay Talk, writer Bruce Rodgers traces the term camp to 16th century British theatre, where it referred to men dressed as women (). [5] [23] Camp may have derived from the gay slang Polari, [24] which borrowed the term from the Italian campare, [25] [21] or from the French term se camper, meaning "to pose in an exaggerated fashion".