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!
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