I’ve never done drag, but I’d love to try it.
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
That’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
‘Drag Race’ is so unique in how much progress it has made in how people think of people in LGBTQIA-plus community and has helped make big strides in the way queer art is perceived.
‘Drag Race’ is the escape that everybody needs – gay, straight, or otherwise.
Not accepting where I came from, and who I am as a person, the voice, you know, the appearance, the everything. ‘Drag Race’ has opened my eyes to see there’s so much more than where I came from and to, like, not hold that against myself.
I’ve still never gotten used to myself in drag.
I love drag queens… they perform me better than I ever could myself.
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!
I think if they wanted to get me to leave ‘Children in Need,’ they’d have to drag me off screaming. It’s one thing that’s so close to my heart, and I feel passionately about it. I gave up my radio show, with regret, but knowing I’d done it for a long time, the same with Eurovision. But ‘Children in Need’ is different.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
I always said if I played a drag queen, I’d want to create a template with the realness they talk about in ‘Paris Is Burning.’
It’s great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the ‘Drag Race’ family.
My style has been nurtured over time. It’s more about knowing what doesn’t suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don’t feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps – I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.
The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I’ve met faux queens. I’ve met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.
The way I need to look, it’s a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.
I love wearing drag.
Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn’t willing to sit at the kid’s table anymore so I took what’s mine. You can’t depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.
The House of Andrews really invented what we know as polished, glamour drag.
The costume world – whether it be movies, television or drag – and the fashion world have this weird, ugly stepsister, love/hate relationship. I’m somewhere stuck in the middle of it, and it’s so much fun.
I’ve always been a rule-breaker and a rebel. For me, drag has always been about rebellion, but also escapism. I think being able to creatively direct your own world is super powerful – and it’s beautiful.
As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.
Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let’s just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away.
I’ve always wanted to put my drag character in film because you can have total control over what you’re projecting, what image you’re portraying.
Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it’s still a queer art form.
I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She’d drag people from the street.
You don’t have to win ‘Drag Race’ to really win. And I am living proof of that, thank you Mary J. Blige!
At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effects of that stimulus faded; by 2011, federal fiscal policy actions became a drag on output growth when the recovery was still weak.
I will put the Republican establishment on my shoulders and drag them kicking and screaming back to the Constitution.
In the drag community it’s mostly women in the audience, even for burlesque. I think people look at strippping as a male gaze thing and I think the actual neo-classical burlesque community is more about women supporting women and their creativity, along with freedom of expression.
I heard one story about an octopus in a home tank who would get out, cruise around the house, take knick-knacks, and drag them back to its tank. Like a dog! They’re so smart that there are octopus enrichment handbooks so you don’t bore your octopus. I’ve seen them play with Legos, Mr. Potato Head, you name it!
There is no limit to how far drag can go.
The process of going on ‘Drag Race’ is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It’s cultural. It’s the ‘Game of Thrones’ of reality TV.
Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn’t do it, because it’s going to drag you and everyone else around you down.
I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can’t ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the ‘Drag Race’ world.
We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.
I’m such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies ‘Drag Race’ greatness. She’s like the Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard of ‘Drag Race.’ She’s like a patron saint of reality TV.
About once a month, our local church would have an evening Folk Mass, and my mother would drag us along because she saw that the ghastly creatures who sung on these occasions strummed guitars, and she associated all guitar strumming with pop music.
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn’t fit in a box is ready to break into the mainstream. I want to do my best to put myself in the best position to have that happen for me.
I do resent that when you’re in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you’re put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they’re older. So it’s a drag that we’re not allowed to age.
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, not personal.
Life’s fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that’s how I work.
If I’m in drag, I’m playing Jinkx in some way.
Drag is all about self-expression; there’s so many different angles you can take on it.
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
I think if you want to drag, you’ll figure it out.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about – worthy, dull. Something you should ‘have’ to read / write about.
