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3 unusual facts about drag queen


Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center

The DeFrank Center is named after Billy DeFrank, the stage name of William Price (1936–1980), an African-American and prominent 1970s gay rights activist and a member of the Bay Area's drag community.

Hoyt Hotel

Walter Cole, the Portland resident and female impersonator better known as Darcelle XV, recalled the Roaring 20's Room in Sharon Knorr's book, Just Call Me Darcelle.

The Sandman: The Doll's House

As she tries to track their whereabouts, Rose takes up residence in a boarding house full of peculiar characters, including Chantal and Zelda, an ambiguously lesbian couple who always wear bridal garb and own a collection of stuffed spiders; Ken and Barbie, an extremely yuppie-ish couple; the eccentric Gilbert, a self-described "amateur knight errant"; and the landlord Hal, a gay man who performs at nightclubs in drag.


A Little Bit of Love

"A Little Bit of Love" is a song and music video performed and produced by drag icon RuPaul and released on February 25, 1997.

Boy Is a Bottom

"Boy Is a Bottom" is a song by American singer and drag queen Willam Belli, featuring Detox and Vicky Vox.

Chow Down

"Chow Down" is a song by American singer and drag queen Willam Belli, featuring Detox and Vicky Vox.

Declan Buckley

Declan Buckley is an Irish television personality and the man behind Dublin drag queen character, Shirley Temple Bar.

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School

A Dr. Sketchy's class may consist of a burlesque dancer (such as Veronica Varlow) or some type of performer (drag queens, trapeze artists, or roller derby girls) as the featured model, with drawing contests during breaks.

Georg Preuße

Georg Preuße (Pseudonym Mary Morgan) (born 24 August 1950 in Ankum) is a German actor and drag performer.

High Heel Drag Queen Race

The High Heel Drag Queen Race is an informal costumed drag queen race in Washington, D.C. Each year on the Tuesday before the Halloween holiday, thousands of spectators come to Dupont Circle to watch as 100 or so costumed drag queens show off their elaborate outfits and race down 17th Street.

Invasion of the Pines

On the afternoon of July 4 each year, drag queens from both Cherry Grove and the Pines gather at the Ice Palace Bar at the Cherry Grove Hotel in Cherry Grove; after parading through the street of Cherry Grove, they board a chartered ferry boat and sail to the Pines Harbor, where they are greeted by thousands of cheering residents and visitors.

Miss Understood

Miss Understood (aka Alex Heimberg) is an American drag queen originally from Levittown, New York, who has been based in New York City since the late 1980s.

Polixeni Papapetrou

Photo series she has made include Elvis Presley fans, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, drag queens, wrestlers and bodybuilders and the recreation of photographs made by Lewis Carroll using her daughter as a model.

Rickard Engfors

Rickard Engfors (born November 22, 1976, in Haninge, Stockholm) is a Swedish model, stylist and former drag queen.

Starrbooty: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Starrbooty: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to drag queen RuPaul's fairly successful low-budget film, Starrbooty.

Trannyshack

It was started by drag queen Heklina in 1996 as an offshoot of Klubstitute, and was a weekly fixture at The Stud bar in San Francisco for 12 years, drawing large crowds on a regular basis.


see also

A Gold Slipper

Wayne Koestenbaum, in The Queen's Throat, suggested that Mr McKann might be 'a drag queen at heart'.

An Act of Valour

Originally, Leppäjärvi and Corduner had approached D'Amico with the idea of him playing the drag-queen Bette Noir (a pun on French expression bête noire).

Christeene Vale

Christeene Vale, known mononymously as Christeene, is an American drag queen, performance artist, singer-songwriter and rapper.

Gary Hall

Shequida (born Gary Hall), American drag queen, opera singer and actor

Jorge Flores

Jorge Luis Flores Sánchez, better known as Nina Flowers, Puerto Rican drag queen and reality television personality

Mark Ravenhill

In 2009 Mark Ravenhill presented a staged reading of A Life In Three Acts, transcripts of conversations with Bette Bourne, an actor, drag queen and equal rights activist, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce, known by his stage name Estee Applauder, Tasmanian-British drag queen and female impersonator

Paul Charles

RuPaul Andre Charles, American actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter.

San Francisco mayoral election, 1979

Feinstein, with (46.63%) was tied in the November 6 election with Quentin L. Kopp (44.72%), both of whom beat out musician Jello Biafra, drag-queen activist Sister Boom Boom, Sylvia Weinstein, Cesar Ascarrunz, Steve L. Calitri, Tibor Uskert, Joe Hughes and Patricia Dolbeare.

Viviane Araújo

On August 29, 2012, after 93 days, she was crowned the winner of the season, beating actor Felipe Folgosi and drag queen Leo Aquila in the final vote, taking home the R$2 million prize.