Drag kings have historically been mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.[1] In more recent years, the world of drag kings has broadened to include performers of all gender expressions.[2] A typical drag show may incorporate dancing, acting, stand-up comedy and singing, either live or lip-synching to pre-recorded tracks.[3] Drag kings often perform as exaggeratedly macho male characters,[4] portray characters such as construction workers and rappers or they will impersonate male celebrities like Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Tim McGraw.[5] Drag kings may also perform as personas that do not clearly align with the gender binary. Drag personas that combine both stereotypically masculine and feminine traits are common in modern drag king shows.[6]
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several drag kings became British music hall stars and British pantomime has preserved the tradition of women performing in male roles. Starting in the mid-1990s, drag kings started to gain some of the fame and attention that drag queens have known.[7][8]
Drag kings have historically been more marginalized by pop culture than drag queens, who began playing a larger role in mainstream pop culture from the late 20th Century onwards.[9] Drag kings have also historically been marginalized in academic LGBT studies.[10] Recently,[when?] drag kings have started to play a slightly more visible role in the LGBT community. Sleek Magazine described this renaissance of drag king culture in a 2019 article titled "What's behind the drag king revolution?"[11]
The British drag king collective 'Pecs', a troupe made up entirely of women and non-binary people, was founded in 2013 and went on to perform at Soho Theatre and The Glory.[12] In 2016, director Nicole Miyahara produced The Making of a King, a documentary film chronicling the lives of contemporary drag kings in Los Angeles.[13] The first drag king to appear in a television show was New Zealand artist and comedian Hugo Grrrl who won the inaugural season of the New Zealand reality competition House of Drag in 2018.[14] In 2019, American artist Landon Cider was the first drag king and cisgender woman to appear on a televised US drag competition when he won the third season of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula.[15] In June 2022, three drag kings made a guest appearance in series one of Drag Race France,[16] the first time the Drag Race franchise included drag kings.
 | This is the sandbox page where you will draft your initial Wikipedia contribution.
If you're starting a new article, you can develop it here until it's ready to go live. If you're working on improvements to an existing article, copy only one section at a time of the article to this sandbox to work on, and be sure to use an edit summary linking to the article you copied from. Do not copy over the entire article. You can find additional instructions here. Remember to save your work regularly using the "Publish page" button. (It just means 'save'; it will still be in the sandbox.) You can add bold formatting to your additions to differentiate them from existing content. |
Article Draft
editLead
editArticle body
editReferences
edit- ^ Aronoff, Jen (2005-10-19). "Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff: With some spit and polish, women perform in growing world of cross-dressing pageantry". The University of South Carolina Daily Gamecock. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ Surkan, Kim (2003-04-01). "Drag Kings in the New Wave: Gender Performance and Participation". Journal of Homosexuality. 43 (3–4): 161–186. doi:10.1300/J082v43n03_10. ISSN 0091-8369.
- ^ Dujour, Dick (2006-08-24). "Drag King Contest". San Francisco Bay Times. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ Beckner, Chrisanne (2005-09-29). "Best of Sacramento - Drag King: Buck Naked". Sacramento News & Review. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ Long, Cris (2007-07-22). "Bring Out the Kings!: Gage Gatlyn". Out Impact. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ Surkan, Kim (2003-04-01). "Drag Kings in the New Wave: Gender Performance and Participation". Journal of Homosexuality. 43 (3–4): 161–186. doi:10.1300/J082v43n03_10. ISSN 0091-8369.
- ^ "Gage For Yourself". Watermark Online. 2005-09-22. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ Caceda, Eden (2015-01-13). "Inside Sydney's drag king culture". Hijacked. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ Mitchell, Nicole Phelps, Stef (2018-03-08). "Gender Renegades: Drag Kings Are Too Radical for Prime Time". Vogue. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Koonce, Melissa Suzanne (May 2006). Identity construction and community building in Austin's drag king culture (Thesis thesis).
- ^ "What's behind the drag king revolution?". www.sleek-mag.com. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ "These Drag Kings Are the Only Royalty We Acknowledge". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ Nichols, James Michael (2016-09-28). "You May Know About Drag Queens.. But Do You Know Your Drag King History?". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ george.fenwick@nzherald.co.nz, George Fenwick George Fenwick is an entertainment writer for The New Zealand Herald (2018-12-20). "House of Drag winner Hugo Grrrl on his 'life-changing' win". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ "'Dragula' Season 3 Winner: Landon Cider Takes The Crown". Billboard. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ^ "Queen Pour Cent". IMDb. IMDb.com Inc. Retrieved 2 June 2023.