Why do gay men like drag
The Girls Who Love Queens: Drag’s Biggest Audience May Soon Be Young Women
Gay men have long been perceived as drag’s only true, die-hard audience. But a new wave of young women is challenging that conventional wisdom, joining gays as some of the biggest consumers of drag culture.
At bars, clubs, conventions, and especially across social media, young women “drag fans” are appearing in unprecedented numbers. Many are minors, too new to attend club events—so they wait patiently on sidewalks to glimpse their favorite queens, or view bits of shows on Snapchat. They are determined. Ignoring barriers of age, gender, and sexual orientation, they make enough noise to draw attention from RuPaul’s Drag Race royalty like Michelle Visage and local queens alike. But what accounts for this phenomenon?
When I talked to Katie, a year-old fan from Long Island, Fresh York, she seemed stumped by her own enthusiasm. “I try and find so many friends to watch Drag Race with me, and they just don’t get it,” she told me. “I initiate to feel down about it, like I’m just weird.” But whatever the source for her fandom, it’s powerful enough that she finds herself sneaking into bars without ID just t
What's the appeal of drag queens/kings, from a gay standpoint?
Colinmarshall1
So, we already know that direct men desire women and straight women desire men. By and large, linear men don’t want their women looking like men, and straight women would not want their men looking like women.
Being that gay men desire men and lesbians desire women, what is the appeal in drag queens and drag kings to the homosexual community? If a man is looking for another man, why would there be any interest in a man that’s trying his damndest to look and act prefer a (many times exaggerated) woman? If a gal is looking for another woman, why would she look twice at one that makes every strive to look and perform like a (again, many times exaggerated) man? One would imagine that if they wanted that, they could just avoid the middleman and find someone who’s legitimately of the other sex rather than an impersonator.
What, I question you, is the linear dope on this?
Bambi_Hassenpfeffer2
Drag queens / kings are performers. They do not display as female / male in their daily lives, but dress in the clothing of the other side sex (to an utmost degree) as part of their performance. You wou
Understanding Drag: As American as Apple Pie
Drag is a performance art that uses costumes, makeup, and other tools to present exaggerated forms of gender expression to critique gender inequalities and fantasize a transformational future where people are truly free in how they state themselves.
Though drag began in the LGBTQ+ community, it has increasingly become part of the wider cultural landscape through shows love RuPaul’s Drag Race. Throughout its history, it was often driven underground due to anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. But as society became more accepting of LGBTQ+ identities, drag’s visibility and cultural influence grew enormously.
In recent years, drag performances, including family-friendly ‘drag story hour’ events at bookstores and libraries, have faced armed protests, threats, and violent actions from right-wing hate groups. Several states have passed, or attempted to pass, legislation restricting where, when, how, and to whom drag can be performed. These attacks are part of HRC’s National State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans.
Drag is important because it promotes visibility of Homosexual people to wider audiences, which increases societal acceptance. That
Drag queens, otherwise known as “female impersonators," are most typically gay cisgender men (though there are many drag queens of varying sexual orientations and gender identities) who perform and entertain on stage in nightclubs and bars.
Dressed in stereotypical feminine clothing and with elaborate makeup and wigs, they usually adopt an eccentric persona or a character that might act as a means of self-expression of their own personalities or let them to characterize various personality attributes in command to entertain.
It is key here to note that performing in drag is not necessarily rooted in questioning one's gender culture, though this is a common misconception. Drag queens put forth enormous attempt and financial cost to establish an ensemble of makeup, outfits, wigs, and also must develop skills at using these means to transform themselves into their highly adorned characters. Their performances commonly involve lip-syncing and dancing to popular music or other talents such as stand-up comedy.
Drag kings, on the other hand, are just the opposite of drag queens — male impersonators. Although it’s unclear exactly why, drag kings are less common in gay communit
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