Drag queen

The drag queens are men who get dressed as a woman, often in an exaggerated way or mild nutter or by imitating famous women, to amuse or as animation and of spectacle including Chant, Danse, Lip-synch, Stand-up.

Distinctions

A distinction is done in French between the Transformiste ( female impersonator or celebrity impersonator in English), which incarnates, imitates or generally parodies singers or personalities (of the women generally), and the drag queen which has its own style, often very exuberant and coloured, whose role is to dance and survey the places with the mode, often on heels a disproportionate height, to put environment.

I do not imitate the women! How much do you know women who carry heels of seven inches, wigs of four feet top and grinding dresses? |, a celebrity of the kind

The drag queens which put the accent on a perfect illusion of female appearance are called also female personnificateurs , a not very used term however. At the time where female personification was a crime with the the United States, famous the drag queen Jose Rivera distributed badges mentioning I am a boy with his/her comrades in order to save them arrest.

Origin

The term drag would come from the time when the women could not occur yet on scene with the Théâtre. They are thus men who incarnated feminine roles and, so the abbreviation drag for dressed ace girl was noted on scripts beside the name of the actor who was to play the part of a woman. The word was probably taken again by the homosexual dialect London Polari to mean the ladies' garment; with queen (“insane”, literally “queen”), “drag queen” meant in the beginning any homosexual man follower of the Travestisme. Thereafter the term came to indicate only this specific shape of spectacle.

See too

Internal bonds

Dressing-up

External bond

Maxx, Parisian artist with the multiple facets (drag queen, transformist)
end of the domination (male): to be able of the kinds, feminisms and post-feminism queer by Marie-Helene Bourcier

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