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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. Historically, drag queens have usually been gay men, and have been a part of gay culture . People do drag for reasons ranging from self-expression to mainstream performance.
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Jun 2, 2023 · Today’s drag queens trace their roots back to clandestine balls hosted by Black performers in the late 19th century. People dressed in drag celebrate Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1980 ...
Apr 12, 2024 · drag queen, a man who dresses in women’s clothes and performs before an audience. Drag shows (typically staged in nightclubs and Gay Pride festivals) are largely a subcultural phenomenon. Though drag has never enjoyed mainstream appeal, drag queen is a common enough term in popular culture, partly because of recording artist RuPaul, who hit ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Alamy. Fanny and Stella, aka Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, were 19th-Century drag queens whose story and infamous trial was the subject of a 2013 non-fiction book (Credit: Alamy) This bigotry ...
Jun 27, 2019 · DeCaro says the edgy, vulgar, playful ethos of RuPaul and modern drag queens grew out of Wigstock, an outdoor drag festival in Manhattan's East Village. Drag Queen Cloud performs at Wigstock in ...
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