Drag queen
A drag queen is a man who represents a woman with artistic or humorous intent through appearance and behavior.
A drag queen differs from a travesty artist in that he slips into various female roles and also imitates or parodies prominent women, while the drag queen has a fixed role with her own "drag name". The transitions are fluid and there are also combinations. In both cases, a man can temporarily represent a woman, but still define himself as a man. This distinguishes drag queens and travesty artists from people whose psychological gender identity does not match their biological gender.
description
A drag queen usually wears very feminine clothes, elaborate makeup, high-heeled shoes and sweeping wigs. Drag queens are mainly to be found in the gay scene in the big cities. At political parades and festivals such as Christopher Street Day , drag queens also appear for the non-scene population.
Many drag queens see their appearance as a sociopolitical statement: They want to show society that there is also a kind of third gender within the heteronormative bipolar gender system (man-woman) . So many drag queens past and present are not just flashy disco queens, but also function as figureheads in the homosexual movement .
The counterpart, a woman representing a man, is a drag king .
etymology
The term drag queen probably originated from British slang around 1900 and described effeminate homosexuals in female clothing. A little later, the term dragking was added as a term for mostly lesbian women in typically male clothing.
In the past, women were still forbidden to appear on stages in some places; Actors dressed up as women when necessary. Legend has it that William Shakespeare wrote Drag on the edge of his stage directions when a man was to appear dressed as a woman. That is why the term “drag” is often interpreted as “dressed as a girl” (for example: “dressed as a girl”) (and analogously with “dragking” as “dressed as a guy”).
The definition of the English word "drag" as "dragging" is more likely because of the train on long clothes. - In English (alluding to the often very elaborate, pompous costumes and the eye-catching makeup) the term "doing drag" has become a term for someone who changes their gender role with their clothes.
Well-known drag queens
Germany
One of the most famous German drag queens is Olivia Jones alias Oliver Knöbel. In 2004 he ran for the Hamburg parliament and received 0.5% of the votes.
- Betty BBQ , Black Forest Dragqueen from Freiburg im Breisgau
- Georg Preuße alias Mary Morgan
- Reiner Kohler aka Gordy Blanche
- Lilo Wanders
- Nina Queer
- Baroness of Kö
- Miss Wommy Wonder
Austria
International
- Alexis Arquette
- Alyssa Edwards
- Bianca Del Rio
- Billy More
- Candy darling
- Chi Chi LaRue
- Courtney Act
- Dame Edna Everage
- Divine
- Pabllo Vittar
- Panti Bliss
- Raven
- RuPaul
- Shangela Laquifa Wadley
- Sorelle Marinetti
- Taylor Mac
- Verka Serduchka
- Vladimir Luxuria
- Zeki Müren
Movies with drag queens
- 1968: Flesh with Candy Darling as Candy
- 1972: Pink Flamingos with Divine as Babs Johnson
- 1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter
- 1978: A cage full of fools and the like a. with Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte
- 1980: Another cage full of fools and the like. a. with Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte
- 1981: Polyester with Divine as Francine Fishpaw
- 1982: Victor / Victoria with Julie Andrews as Victoria Grant / Victor Grezhinski
- 1985: A cage full of fools - now we get married and a. with Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte
- 1988: Das Kuckucksei with Harvey Fierstein ( Arnold ), Ken Page ( Murray / Marsha Dimes ), Charles Pierce ( Bertha Venation ), Axel Vera ( Marina Del Ray )
- 1994: Priscilla - Queen of the Desert with Terence Stamp ( Bernadette Bassenger ), Hugo Weaving ( Mitzi Del Bra ) and Guy Pearce ( Felicia Jollygoodfellow )
- 1995: To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar with Patrick Swayze ( Vida Boheme ), Wesley Snipes ( Noxeema Jackson ) and John Leguizamo ( Chi-Chi Rodriguez )
- 1996: I Shot Andy Warhol with Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling
- 1996: The Birdcage - A paradise for shrill birds a . a. with Nathan Lane as Albin (US version of A Cage Full of Fools)
- 1999: Flawless with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rusty Zimmerman
- 1999: Trick , Clinton Leupp as Miss Coco Peru
- 2001: Sweet November with Michael Rosenbaum as Brandy
- 2002: Mister Sister - A drag queen in the league with Miguel A. Nunez junior as Juwanna Mann
- 2004: Connie and Carla with Nia Vardalos ( Connie ), Toni Collette ( Carla ), Stephen Spinella ( Robert / Peaches ), Alec Mapa ( Lee / N'Cream ), Chris Logan ( Brian / Brianna )
- 2005: Kinky Boots - Man (s) wearing boots with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola
- 2014: Darker Than Deepest Night with Davide Capone as Davide , Davide Cordova as Louvre
- 2015: Viva with Héctor Medina as Jesús
In addition to the films in which drag queens are portrayed, there are also films in which men dress up as women, but without using them to portray drag queens. Some examples are:
- 1956: Charley's aunt with Heinz Rühmann as Dr. Otto Dernburg / Charley's aunt
- 1959: Some like it hot with Tony Curtis as Joe / Josephine and Jack Lemmon as Jerry / Daphne
- 1963: Charley's aunt with Peter Alexander as Dr. Otto Wilder / Charley's aunt
- 1982: Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
- 1993: Mrs. Doubtfire - The Spiky Nanny with Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard / Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire
Music videos with drag queens
- 1979: Hell on Wheels (promo video) by Cher
- 1984: I Want to Break Free by Queen
- 1994: Hey Now! (Girls Just wanna Have Fun) by Cyndi Lauper
- 1995: I want survive by Diana Ross
- 2000: Bathwater by No Doubt
- 2005: Tripping by Robbie Williams
- 2006: Listen Up! by The Gossip
- 2007: She's Madonna by Robbie Williams
- 2008: Morning after Midnight by Adam Green
- 2008: Hot 'n' Cold by Katy Perry
- 2009: Covergirl (put the bass in your walk) by RuPaul
- 2009: I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas
- 2009: I like by Keri Hilson
- 2010: Get Away With Murder by Jeffree Star
- 2010: Beauty Killer by Jeffree Star
- 2010: Like A Lady from Monrose
- 2010: Take It Off (K $ n 'Friends Version) by Kesha
- 2011: Freak Of Nature by Chris Crocker
- 2012: Prom Night! by Jeffree Star
- 2013: Love To My Cobain by Jeffree Star
- 2014: Rise Like a Phoenix by Conchita Wurst, winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
- 2017: Power from Little Mix
- 2019: Zick, Zack, Onion by Betty BBQ feat. PARTY ANIMAL
literature
- Del LaGrace Volcano , Judith Halberstam : The Drag King Book. Serpent's Tail, London 1999, ISBN 1852426071 .
- Betty BBQ , Steph Burlefinger: "PEOPLE, Betty! - The comic book about the crisis with Black Forest drag queen Betty BBQ", with illustrations by Steph Brulefinger, published by Betty BBQ Travestie & Entertainment, Freiburg 2020, ISBN 978-3000659188 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ this is z. B. thematized in the film Shakespeare in Love
- ↑ Johannes Jakob Arens: Tanzmariechen and Trümmertunte. Transgressions of gender boundaries in the public space of Cologne In: Bilder. Books. Bytes. On the mediality of everyday life , 2009, p. 522