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You will find information on DRAG culture as well as tips on drag makeup and costume.

There will be more updates to come!

If you have any questions, please contact me @ jasoncharleshatton@gmail.com

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WHAT IS DRAG ?

Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century. It is believed that drag is related to the church and related to William Shakespeare who had men dress as women because at the time, women were not allowed to perform on stage.

DRAG = Dress Resembling A Girl.

There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly from professionals who have starred in movies to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and can vary even within the same city. Although many assume all drag queens are gay men or transgender, there are drag artists of all genders and sexualities who do drag for various reasons. Generally, drag queens dress in a female gender role, often exaggerating certain characteristics for comic, dramatic or satirical effect. Other drag performers include "faux queens”, who are women who dress in an exaggerated style to emulate drag queens.

JINKX MONSOON ON DOING DRAG

AMAZING FROCKS!

I'm ashamed to admit that I have only recently seen 

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

I was in heaven watching every minute of it! Not only it is an amazing film but features some of the most outrageous costumes and funniest lip syncs I've ever seen.

I am now in forever search for an ostrich headpiece, just like this...

WHERE TO SHOP DRAG

Meet Dominic and his daughter Karyn. These two run one of the most fabulous vintage shops in the city called Reflections Vintage & Antiques. A perfect one-stop shop for drag.

This isn’t just another thrift store. It is packed with an assortment that Dominic has collected for decades in Europe and throughout North America. They have everything from glittery wedding dresses to burlesque fetish wear. In a word, the costumes here are AUTHENTIC!

Reflections Vintage & Antiques

Adess: 676 Yonge, Toronto, ON M4Y 2A6

Phone:(416) 944-0333

QUOTES

"we have a lot of important brocades and bouclés and hand-painted chiffons...things

that are just a little more glamorous, a little more movie star"

-Bob Mackie

DRAG MAKEUP TIPS

Not sure where to start with drag makeup? Well, like anything, you can find it on YouTube …the other day I learned how to castrate a rooster. It was actually a lot easier than I thought.

 If you are looking for instructional videos on a more specific look, you can find it all …just search away!

For some good basic tips, check out this video...

For a more "practiced" way of doing drag makeup, see Manila Luzon's video...

WHAT'S YOUR DAG LOOK ?

click here to see more drag transformations

CAN A WOMAN BE A DRAG QUEEN ?

Can a woman be a drag queen? YES! Look at Wendy Williams, she has practically made an entire career out of being one! In fact, there are woman who are professional drag queens and often refer to themselves as Faux Queens.

A faux queen or bio queen is a female who adopts the style typical of male drag queens. A faux queen may be described as "a drag queen trapped in a woman's body." Like traditional drag queens and drag kings, faux queens play with gender roles and gender norms to educate and entertain. Faux Femme forbearers can be found in the larger-than-life personas developed by Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles, Mae West and her hyper-sexual and bawdy quick wit, Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria; not to mention Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters, who got her start doing drag in 1996 at legendary drag performance venue Trannyshack in San Francisco.

So ladies...have no fear of being upstaged by your gay bestie. Go out, get a wig, and strut your stuff!

QUEEN OF ALL QUEENS

PARIS IS BURNING

Paris is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980's, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.

The film takes a look at the language among these queens and how it is integrated into the ball...

Shade, Throwing Shade, Shady — When a person is doing you wrong in some way.

 

Reading, Reading to filth — To really let someone have it; to insult or criticize.

 

Serve — to deliver or present yourself in a particular way.

 

Realness — to represent a particular look or act very well.

 

Kiki — It’s a gathering of sorts, where you gossip and talk about this and that.