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A 1907 sheet music cover of "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" featuring singer and male impersonator Hetty King. Drag king character Macho (far right) in the "America" number of Wild Side Story in Los Angeles in 1977. While the term drag king was first cited in print in 1972, [8] there is a longer history of female performers dressing in ...
This is a list of drag kings, sometimes known as male impersonators, drag performers, or drag artists. A drag king is a person who dresses in masculine clothes and hides their regular features (through such things as breast binding) for special occasions, often to perform, entertain, or engage in social activism.
Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone (usually male) who performs femininely and a drag king is someone (usually female) who performs masculinely. Performances often involve comedy ...
Landon Cider began his career performing in the Southern California drag circuit, where he became one of the more well known drag kings. [4] [5] He performs Drag King Explosion at Hamburger Mary's. [6] He is the master of ceremonies for the annual Los Angeles event series Bent, which celebrates drag and queer identities. [7]
Kori King is a drag performer. In 2023, she performed alongside Kesha as part of the Only Love Tour. [3] That same year, she was awarded the "Boston's Best New Performer to Watch" award. [4] Kori King competed on the seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Drag pageantry is a developed form of pageantry for female impersonators, drag queens, and trans women, styled after traditional beauty pageants or contests for cisgender women. It has also evolved into a pageantry for male impersonators , drag kings and trans men .
Drag queens [3] Cissie and Ada: 2 United Kingdom: Drag queens [4] DWV: 3 (Detox, Willam) United States: 2012-2014 Drag queens The Fabulous Wonder Twins: 2 El Salvador: Drag queens Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé: 2 Canada: 2016-present Drag queens Frock Destroyers: 3 (Baga Chipz, Divina De Campo, Blu Hydrangea) United Kingdom: 2019-present Drag ...
Drag king; Travesti (theatre)#Women in male roles; See also. Female impersonation (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 7 April 2024, at 00:10 (UTC). Text is ...