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| Drag queens Luc D'Arcy and Jerry Cyr and friend at Montreal's 2003 Divers-Cité pride parade
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Drag queens are performers - usually gay men, sometimes transgendered women - who dress in drag, clothing associated with the female gender, usually highly exaggerated versions thereof. Drag queens often do drag to perform, singing or lip-synch ing and dancing, participating in events such as gay pride parades, cabarets, discotheques, and other celebrations and venues.
Female-bodied people who perform in usually exaggerated men's clothes and personae are called drag kings, though this term has a wider meaning than drag queen.
Drag is a part of Western gay culture - drag queens fought at the Stonewall riots in June 1969, and drag shows are traditional at pride parades. Prominent drag queens in the lesbigay community of a city often serve as official or unofficial spokespersons, fundraisers, chroniclers, or community leaders.
Non-western cultures have traditions similar to drag, often existing among their GLBT communities; the western notion of drag is also becoming more common in non-western GLBT communities.
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| Drag queen Mado Lamotte performs at Mascara: La nuit des drags in Montreal
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- High camp drag queens employ a drag aesthetic based on clown-like values like exaggeration, satire, dirty jokeA joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. This sort of "joke" is not the same as a practical joke. Laughter, the intended human reaction to jokes, "putting on airs," and so forth. DivineThe concept of the divine is a key ingredient in all religious faiths, and it is frequently used to refer to the monotheistic God that is part of most of the world's great religions as well as the various deities that are part of polytheistic religions su is an example of a camp queen.
- Some drag queens, though not as outré as camp queens, employ highly exaggerated feminine personae.
- Some drag queens exaggerate in the dimension of elegance and fashion, employing jewelry and beautiful gowns. The Lady ChablisThe Lady Chablis born Benjamin Edward Knox in 1957, is a transgendered drag queen. She was brought to wide public attention when she figured as one of Savannah's colorful characters in John Berendt's novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil''. She th, who can be seen in the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1994 novel, which features the Bird Girl sculpture. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a book by John Berendt, and a movie, directed by Clint Eastwood based loosely on that story. The book is atmospheric in tone, depicting eccentric Savannah perso is an example of this type of performer. Many such drag queens impersonate specific actresses and other pop divas, such as CherLiving Proof Cher born Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere on May 20, 1946 is a world-famous actress and singer. Cher became famous as one of the pop music duo Sonny and Cher with her first husband, Sonny Bono. Together, they had a number one single called "I Got, Madonna, Céline DionCeline Dion Celine Marie Claudette Dion (born March 30, 1968) is a Quebecoise vocalist. She does not like the label Quebecoise above all others, however; she wishes to be known first and foremost as a Canadian. Career beginnings She was born in the small, and so forth.
- Some drag queens either do not perform or perform only rarely. Their forte is participating in pageants, hence the term pageant queen. Pageant queens gear their act toward winning titles and prizes in various contests and pageantry systems. Some of these have grand prizes that rival those of pageants such as Miss America.
- Bio-queens are non-transgendered women who perform the exaggerated feminine personae of drag queens (or else impersonate a male drag queen). Many bio-queens look to drag queens as role models. (See also fag hag.)
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