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La ganadora del premio a la Miss Simpatía de la temporada 8 de RuPaul's Drag Race le cuenta a The Advocate sobre un nuevo documental en el que participa que sigue la vida de la leyenda del drag Barbette.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race season eight Miss Congeniality winner tells The Advocate about a new documentary she's part of that follows the life of drag legend Barbette.
Columbus, Ohio,
resident Michael Jennings, 34, was found guilty on
Thursday of killing a female impersonator with a samurai
sword. The victim, Gary McMurtry (pictured), used the
stage name Brazon.
The Orange Is the New Black star on drag impersonators and passionate female admirers.
Drag — whether male and female impersonation — has been a part of America’s culture since even before our nation was born.
As one of the subjects of the documentary about the drag pageant circuit, Pageant, opening in select theaters, and one of the contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race, premiering next month on Logo, Victoria "Porkchop" Parker may not look or act like your typical female impersonator, but make no mistake, she is one of the best.
In the 1910s and 1920s, drag musicals were just as popular as football on college campuses and in male-only social clubs, writes historian Andrew Erdman.
Decades back, when TV personalities like Milton Berle and Flip Wilson threw on dresses for laughs, they inadvertently carved first notches in the time line of transgender representation. By the '70s drag queens, transvestites, transsexuals, and even dual-gender space travelers (in 1977's sci-fi comedy Quark) were cropping up regularly in TV movies and popular sitcoms like The Jeffersons. Here are some highlights of characters who set the stage for Romjin's Alexis on Ugly Betty.
"I'm into daddies, especially if they know how to pay the bill," the viral star tells Pride's Ricky Cornish.
The Advocate spoke with RuPaul's Drag Race's Milk after he sashayed away.
“We’ve got a real problem in this country, and to be worrying about men wanting to dress up as women? God bless ’em to wear those high heels," McEntire said.
The actress was one of the first people to have transition surgery at a time when the word "transgender" didn't exist, but she was so much more than that.
