drag kings
Female male performers
Drag kings are performers, typically women or nonbinary people, who dress in masculine attire and adopt exaggerated male personas for entertainment.
Like their counterpart drag queens, drag kings perform in venues ranging from bars and clubs to theaters, often incorporating lip-syncing, comedy, or dance.
The art form plays with gender presentation and parodies masculine stereotypes.
The drag king strutted across the stage in a sharp suit and painted-on stubble.
Confident, boastful manner
- machismoExcessive masculine pride
- stubbleShort regrown facial hair
- mustacheUpper lip hair
- baritoneMid-range male voice
brawn · muscles · sideburns · suits · neckties · bravado · posturing · gentleman
Live entertainment venue
- lip-syncSilent vocal mimicry
- stageRaised performance platform
- burlesqueExaggerated mockery or risqué variety
- impersonationPretending to be another
emcee · routine · showtime · nightclub · vaudeville · revue · headliner · gig
Subverting expected identity expressions
- cross-dressingWearing another gender's clothing
- alter-egoAlternate version of oneself
- bindingLegally or morally required
- contouringShaping with highlights, shadows
costume · makeup · disguise · persona · reinvention · empowerment · subversion · expression
Sexual and gender minorities
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- butchMasculine in manner
- ballroomVenue for formal dances
- voguingStylized pose-based dancing
camp · genderqueer · nonbinary · androgyny · Stonewall · identity · expression · subculture
swagger
Confident, boastful manner
baritone · brawn · muscles · sideburns · suits · neckties · bravado · posturing · gentleman · handsome
cabaret
Live entertainment venue
- lip-syncSilent vocal mimicry
- stageRaised performance platform
- burlesqueExaggerated mockery or risqué variety
impersonation · emcee · routine · showtime · nightclub · vaudeville · revue · headliner · gig · choreography
gender-bending
Subverting expected identity expressions
- cross-dressingWearing another gender's clothing
- alter-egoAlternate version of oneself
- bindingLegally or morally required
contouring · costume · makeup · disguise · persona · reinvention · empowerment · subversion · expression · metamorphosis
LGBTQ
Sexual and gender minorities
voguing · camp · genderqueer · nonbinary · androgyny · Stonewall · identity · expression · subculture · femme
- LGBTQgay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer
- drag culturefemale impersonators, lip-sync, lip-syncing, voguing, death drops
- dragRuPaul, air resistance, wind resistance, tucking, lip sync
king, drag, dragging, dragged, drags, drag queen, drag king, drag show