Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag for acts, generally laden with male gender stereotypes.
For this article, I draw from empirical materials that I gleaned while engaging in my research and
drag king performance.
We sat on a panel in Winnipeg, Canada, on hip-hop and racism--hip-hop,
drag kings, and racism.
Quando eu fui a Londres, em 1996, e la as pessoas ja tomavam testosterona, tinham barba etc., nos festivais eu vi pela primeira vez as competicoes
drag king. Entao, o primeiro atelier
drag king que eu fiz foi em Londres.
"We had a wonderful workshop with a
drag king who came in to talk to us about what it was like to be a man," says Jo.
On July 16,
Drag Kings, Queens, and allies from all over the world will celebrate this day by going out in drag with their friends or organizing a show to benefit their community.
I had known Gerestant before as Dred, a preeminent
drag king in New York City, and a regular at Club Casanova, the first weekly
drag king performance night in the country.
JUDITH HALBERSTAM, theorist; author, with Del LaGrace Volcano, of The
Drag King Book (Serpent's Tail).
The catalyst which brought the hermaphrodyke phenomenon from the shadows to the light is the
Drag King club scene in San Francisco and London.
"Dress Codes" consisted of visual art, video, film, performance and educational programs (which included makeup seminars for male cross-dressers and an all day "
Drag King" workshop for female-to-male cross-dressers led by performance artist Dianne Torr), a cross-dressing reading room, and three Saturday evenings of "Fear and Clothing" theater.