This Is What It Feels Like To Be A Drag King In This Increasingly Dangerous Moment
Huff PostThe author in drag as Fender Bender on the January night she won her first competition. I discovered Kristine Bellaluna, whose drag king career as Landon Cider led to her being crowned the “world’s next drag supermonster” on TV’s “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” in 2019. Queer love — especially queer sex — was never something I wanted to forefront in my life, and then I found myself performing “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys with a giant purple vibrator. “Queer love — especially queer sex — was never something I wanted to forefront in my life, and then I found myself performing 'Good Vibrations' by the Beach Boys with a giant purple vibrator.” Rocky wasn’t the only person in the drag scene who changed my perspective on queer desire and all the different ways to be out and visible. I decided that I wanted to use my act to comment on the way queer culture pedestalizes and exalts “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” So, I parodied an infamous moment on the show when a queen attempted to release live butterflies but they were either asleep or dead, making the entire act a dramatic failure.
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