You find the same diversity within queens as well.”ĭespite these similarities, kings don’t get booked like queens do. Some are creatures from an alternate dimension that you’ve never seen before.
Some kings are dapper crooners others would fit right into the lineup of a boy band.
“I think there’s a wider of spectrum between drag kings themselves than there are between kings and queens. “We’ve got a lot more in common with queens than things that set us apart,” Cyril Cinder, a 26-year-old drag king based in Ottawa, tells IN. Like their royal counterparts, drag kings often incorporate an eclectic mix of dancing, acting, comedy and singing (either live or lip sync) in their routines. Even cisgender men perform as drag kings, just as cisgender women perform as queens. Yet, that is the reality for drag kings: the women (be they trans, non-binary, biological, etc.) who dress and perform in masculine drag on stage, personifying male stereotypes. I know what it feels like to struggle every single day to do this.” “I don’t want to go back to driving everywhere and working for no money, when you put so much love and money and time into this craft.
(Right?) “I live in constant fear that the Drag Race thing will end,” Eureka O’Hara, a queen from RuPaul’s Drag Race, told the paper. Internationally, we’re experiencing “the golden age of drag.” At least that’s what the New York Times says, which means it must be true. “We’ve got a lot more in common with queens than things that set us apart”…
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