#drag artists

[dragkingsrule]

Tom Foolery, Philadelphia-based drag king

Image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

Artist links: LinkTree, Instagram

[spraypaintstainonawhitewall]

i have an observation/ revelation

ID in ALT

[migrainecentral]

EVERYONE GO WATCH KING OF DRAG ON REVRY RIGHT NOOOOOOWWWWW

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“Insane levels of older queer - younger queer chemistry, they literally went and wore matching 'Daddy' & 'Papi' shirts your honour!, hot queer polyamorous age gap relationahips….awOOOGA!, both of them are cool and intimidating but tiny and adorable :3”

[njbice]

CROONERS is coming up! Come out and support SF Bay Area Queer talent and enjoy an elegant evening. Break out that outfit you never get to wear!

The show is at Stookey's Blue Room, 7 or 9pm, Sunday March 23. I recommend reserving your ticket, especially for the 7pm show which tends to sell out.

[shoreslippery]

[Drawing of Julian Eltinge performing, with the text "I am as Good a Woman as can be Expected under the Circumstances", a line from Eltinge's silent film Madam Behave (1925).]

[genderqueerdykes]

how does one get into drag? I was thinking of trying drag kinging (is that a word?) it but quickly realized i don’t know what the hell i’m doing. any advice would be appreciated!

(i’m afab and nb if it helps)

hello there! glad you're interested!

my honest suggestion is to set aside time and look into other drag kings! see who you can find online and in person and take a look at what they do! study how masculine drag is approached by others and draw inspiration from how other kings dress and perform! you don't have to do exactly what everyone else is doing but rather just get an idea for what types of looks they are going for, what types of performances they are doing, and so on

there are a lot of ways to play with masculinity, and i suggest taking a look into what your tastes are personally, what calls you to masculinity and/or manhood, what you enjoy about it, what you hate about it, what makes you passionate about it, what drives you insane about it. think about how people make you feel when you are asked to perform masculinity. think about how you wanna play with it and make fun of it. think about how you wanna make it yours and own it. think about how you want to chew it up and spit it back in their face.

masculinizing makeup tutorials can help a lot, and once you learn how to do that, you can play with contour and go nuts. a lot of drag makeup is centered around exaggerated or nonsensical contour, and even highlighting "undesirable" traits, such as avoiding slimming and instead highlighting fat tissue, for example. you can also learn how to apply or style facial hair, and a whole myriad of other things, not even getting into masculine clothing and costuming!

see if there are drag performances, brunches, balls and/or bars in your area, whatever you have nearby locally can help a ton. even meeting 1 drag performer can change your life and help drastically! even if you don't have a lot of drag kings in your area it's worth talking with some queens and other performers to get your bearings, and network with other queers & drag artists

hope that helps at least a little bit! i'll try to update you with more info as i think of things! take care, good luck out there! i <3 drag kings!

[sheltiechicago]

Reynaldo Rivera, Connie Rivera and Mario Calvano, Echo Park, 1990

The Glamorous World of LA’s Vanished Queer Underground

Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs of trans women, drag artists, and Latinx scenesters are a thrilling account of 1990s-era nightlife.

All photographs courtesy the artist

Reynaldo Rivera, Richard Villegas Jr., friend, and Enrique, Miracle Mile, 1996

Reynaldo Rivera, Girls, El Conquistador, 1997

Reynaldo Rivera, Vanessa, Silverlake Lounge, 1995

[mild-goth-sauce]

An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

"what's the appeal of drag kings" because women are my favorite guy next question

[adamapparition]

I was just doing some casual research into handkerchief code / flagging for drag purposes and OH LORD Google had me literally clapping my hand over my mouth feeling so called out by my kinky forefathers

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“they've been coworkers/partners on several different projects for YEARS. they're constantly talking about how happy they are that they've found a person who they have so much chemistry with and just gets them. they practice pick-up lines on each other. they scissor.”

[razberry-slice]

Love you Orchard Blossom.. and Aj too I suppose

[shabbytigers]

I’ve seen a few really good drag shows here but it’s hard to mention specific performers i’ve admired bc I have trouble referring to some of them as drag artists

there’s sort of a spectrum between “drag queen/king”and “unabashedly trans person who is a cabaret artist”? most of them do drag makeup and drag wardrobe, and most of them lip-synch, and i’m fine calling them drag queens, at least for show-specific purposes. like, they’re trans women (nearly all women) who do drag as an art form, it’s fine. i don’t have a problem writ large with drag and i find those who do kind of tiresome. i’m old, we had repression, leave me alone

one local artist in particular is — look. you know how a certain kind of face scratches an itch? and how there’s a certain catlike feminine face prototype that does it for a lot of people that you can kind of trace through Rachel Weisz, Eva Green, early Kristin Scott Thomas, maybe Milla Jovovich? take that, throw in a dash of 1930s Vienna or perhaps Paris starlet, and that’s her. admittedly the note of twentieth century central European decadence is possibly down to her show styling and/or the fact that she plays the fucking melodica, aside from top-flight piano and singing

anyway and she also has one of the frankly hottest bodies i’ve ever seen, tall af and somehow simultaneously rail thin and curves absolutely from here to sunday. (i don’t only appreciate rail thin people, but i did experience the kate moss era in real time. sorry! i didn’t enjoy it much if that helps. but also hhh the 90s it girls never had this fucking knockout of a shape)

i cope poorly with her existence tbh. fulminant, raging abjection before beauty syndrome. it doesn’t stop me from going to her shows and quietly mentally drooling to myself in the confines of my mind palace where i won’t bother anybody by visibly leching on them, it’s fine i’m fine

but like what’s bugging me about it is my growing conviction that she simply doesn’t do drag

sometimes she’ll be wearing literally the same dress as her partner. her partner is quite clearly doing drag. she’s quite clearly being a high-glam cabaret artist

part of it is that she does her own singing with her own voice. but so does her partner! and yet.

maybe it’s that she wears heavy makeup, but it’s not drag makeup. maybe a dusting of golden glitter. strong party makeup but the kind where you could get it at bergdorf’s. and i’m almost like … eve for the love of god will you please just draw a whole ass iridescent peacock on each eye already so i can stop making this uncalled for and uncomfortable distinction in my head lolfuckingsob, but she does not

anyway yeah. human beauty. whatever the fuck

barely caught it on a display that flipped to something else but there is a drag queen here called Fagatha Crispy, we’re not all dead yet