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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.
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 ...
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".
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.
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
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 ...
A motion passed at the conference said initiatives, like drag queen story time, and inviting LGBT+ authors into schools can “help challenge the heteronormative culture and curriculum” in ...
Drag queens from Argentina in 1995. In the 1990s, drag queens became a fixture in the flourishing gay nightlife of Buenos Aires. [17] [18] There was a complex and visible culture of homosexuals and cross-dressers that extended in all the social classes of Buenos Aires during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [19]