I don’t know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.
The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there’s kind of a place for that – to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I’m sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.
I’ve always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.
I’m definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that’s not really my personality.
Whether it was with drag or with sports or in school or whatever I was interested in, my parents were always supportive of me.
Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.
I’d done drag since I was 14, for special occasions, and in 2010 a friend of mine with her own burlesque group was looking for a host. During a party I was just fooling around, taking the microphone, saying stupid, funny things, and she asked me afterward if I wanted to host her burlesque show every Saturday.
Just in my experience as a drag queen, I’ve been able to connect with queer people around the world – and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!
Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I’d consider is having my bust reduced. It’s alright for my current role in ‘The Marquise’ because it’s a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it’s a drag otherwise.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Once you’ve published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you’ve sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
For me, drag is all about making people happy and entertaining.
I definitely think that I, as a drag queen, can endure pain a lot better than most people.
The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you’re not so good – not so important.
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing – who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you’re starting to grow interesting little wings?
Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.
A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.
I don’t live in drag… I don’t sit around in negligees and I don’t wear little Adolfo suits to lunch. Of course, if I had a couple of Bob Mackie outfits, things might be different.
Personally, I like drag that’s a little rough around the edges, drag you can run around in it, drag you can get in the Uber without worrying about!
For years, ‘Drag Race’ was gay people’s best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn’t know anything about it. Look at it now: it’s like it’s gone from black and white to IMAX.
‘Drag Race’ has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like ‘black-ish’ works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.
I might not have won ‘Drag Race,’ but I won the Internet.
I would love to be the John Belushi of drag. He was fearless.
It was like I have always had big dreams for my drag aspirations, and I talked myself into doing ‘Drag Race.’ I’m like, take a chance.
My style of drag has always been a little bit more moderate.
I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.
The way I’ve always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.
We’re lucky as Drag Racers to have an opportunity to touch people’s lives and in a lot of cases, change people’s lives.
I’m not usually one to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn but I love that he doesn’t drag his wife on stage for awkward snogs after his annual speech at the party conference.
I mean, I’m a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it’s going to be a good time.
I agree with Ru that it’ll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That’s never gonna happen with drag, but it’s definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.
There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.
I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.
I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it’s popular with the fans that identify with them, so we’re great for marketing. We’re not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we’re just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we’re looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.
I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can’t do damage to anybody unless you’re Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I’m sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.
You don’t know that you’re not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.
You can’t drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn’t actually at the last mile if you’re the one dragging her to the finish line.
There have always been drag queens everywhere.
I think everybody should have the right to do drag if they want to. Even if they look busted!
I wouldn’t be posting videos of me in drag or doing a remake of Zoolander’s orange mocha frappuccino scene if I didn’t still like attention.
I’ve always preferred drag roles, because typically I get better costumes and I’ve always felt more connected with the female characters in my favorite shows than most of the male characters.
Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.
I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it’s mutual respect for one another.
Really, drag is like, ‘Oh, I’m putting on women’s clothing,’ but it’s just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is the culture and society.
The first time I ever dressed in drag was at a costume party during my childhood. I went as Wonder Woman and my mom even took me to get the costume.
I wanted to give myself the opportunity to do the coolest drag I could possibly do.
You know I’ve got a chum, a smashing mate, he’s got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It’s true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
My drag character is very dominant and domineering, and that’s a quality that I am inspired by.
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag, and I think the audience is clamoring fighting with each other more and more to see drag represented as fully as it possibly can be.
Whatever is underneath all the drag, it actually doesn’t really matter. It kind of just matters, are you a great entertainer? And are you nice to work with? Are you good at your job?
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they’re basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag – it’s sort of the ‘Gone With the Wind’ approach.
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that ‘point’ at the star.
One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag… is that I’m losing my ability to be completely anonymous.
It’s not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.
Drag Race’ was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a ‘Drag Race’ contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and ‘Drag Race’ really did that for me.
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration’s well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it’s like a pageant.
