Sorry, but I like drag queens.

[suzy1]

Just go on youtube. Type in drag queen. And look at some of the performances.
I find some of them are nothing less than amazing. [Some are bad]
Some look more feminine and sexy than any G.G. girl. And some are really talented!
I don’t mind admitting if I could have my time over again I would seriously consider being a drag queen.
I spent three years on stage playing bass and singing harmony with a pop group and the buzz was fantastic.
So being a drag queen would have been great.
I know the possible down sides but I still think I would have done it.


SUZY

[NicoleScott]

I do too, for a different reason. Even if I had the talent, I have stage fright and could never perform. I don't care for the outrageous antics (prancing around the stage, even I know it's part of the act). What I like is the look, the really over-the-top everything: makeup, high heels, wigs, dresses.

[jemima_bates]

One more for the 'pro' camp here.

I love the enhanced, ultra-femininity of some performers.

Although - there does become a point where over-the-top becomes over-over-the-top, and everything descends into parody.

Each to their own, I suppose.

Jemima
x

[JohnH]

Yep,

I see myself as a really feminine looking drag queen performing Johnny Cash. "Rings of Fire" or "Ghost Riders" anyone?

Johanna

[msniki48]

yes my dear, you do have a theatrical Flare about you.:daydreaming:....and i'm being very serious....you'd be great!:battingeyelashes:

Kudos to you suzy!:D

[Avana]

i love queens!!


and btw, cant wait for the new season of rupauls drag race...

[LilSissyStevie]

I love drag queens. I wish I was gay so I could be one.

[Ashley Allison]

I've love drag queens too. I've interacted with a few but always felt like they would suddenly turn against me if they found out I'm not gay.

[Jill Devine]

i love queens!!


and btw, cant wait for the new season of rupauls drag race...
Great show. My favorite from past shows was Tatiana.

[Jill Devine]

I love drag queens. I wish I was gay so I could be one.
I was not aware that you had to be gay to work as a drag queen? Sexual orientation and career does not have to be related.

[Hilde_Morales]

I love some of what Queens are about too! I mean, if RuPaul is counted as a Queen they can sure be purty. I have to say that I only really want to dress in more dramatic styles anyway, the Divine/panto dame style is too far, but who the hell wants to wear jeans and a vest top when there are seaquins and feathers out there!

Hilde

[BiancaEstrella]

I love drag queens. I wish I was gay so I could be one.

You don't have to be gay to be a drag queen. Drag is a performance art with no sexuality pre-requisite.

[silhouette]

I love drag queens. I wish I was gay so I could be one.


Is that how it is?
A friend of my mine is trying to convince me to give it a go.. I have no stage fright and I'm pretty good at working a crowd, but I don't have any experience in that area.

I only saw one drag show, and it was all comedy with no sex appeal..
I felt like it was making fun of the whole process instead of flaunting it.

Also I know some drag competitions are for homosexual titles like.. miss gay whatever.. which definitely gives the impression that only homosexuals should be competing

[msniki48]

Yep,

I see myself as a really feminine looking drag queen performing Johnny Cash. "Rings of Fire" or "Ghost Riders" anyone?

Johanna


LMAO!!!! way to go Johanna! ;)

[LilSissyStevie]

I was not aware that you had to be gay to work as a drag queen? Sexual orientation and career does not have to be related.

Actually, I think it's in the rule book :heehee: otherwise you're just a 'mere' performing crossdresser like Eddie Izzard. But I suppose it's theoretically possible kinda like Vanilla Ice as a rapper or those Japanese Country/Western singers. I don't know when the term 'drag queen' became narrowly defined as just a kind of performer. Way back in the olden days, drag queens were crossdressing gay men. Period. Some were performers. Some were sex workers. Some were really TS. Some just did it as a lark. But, none that I knew ever took themselves as seriously as "transgenders" do which is why I liked them. :tongueout

[msniki48]

I must admit Karen and I went to a show in new hope pa...and Randy Roberts was up from The Keys sHE is a wonderful performer

quick example:
oh and a lesson in contouring....lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSisCkkPSL4

[TxKimberly]

Have to admit that I don't care for the majority of "queens" I've seen. Most that I have seen perform are by definition WAY over the top and tend to think that being loud and Vulgar is being funny - it's not. I've spent over a decade active duty army and and am a LONG way away from being a prude or someone that is offended by vulgarity, but it needs to be used like any other tool - properly. As an example, Robin Williams can get vulgar as all hell, but he uses it to emphasize his comedy and act - it is not the ENTIRETY of his act. The other pet peeve I have with many drag queens is lip syncing. Call me a snob, I dont really care, but lip syncing does nothing for me and I'd only just barely consider it a talent at all.
In all fairness, I have seen a FEW drag queens that had me rolling on the floor with their comedy, but they are far and away the minority in my experience.
If I had any advice for folks thinking about doing a "drag queen" act, it would be to remember that being loud and vulgar alone does not make you funny.
Of course these are my opinions and we all know about opinions . . .

[MsJanessa]

I'm a big admirer of DQ and their art form---and do appreciate the humor, as loud and over the top as it is

[Lynn Marie]

Our local LGBT hangout is owned by a gay couple one of whom is a gloriously gorgeous Drag Queen. She's also, positively delightful and talented beyond anything I ever dreamed of. There are a few other DQ's that frequent the place and for the most part they too have been very nice and accommodating to us CDs.

I've no real interest in DQ performances, and have actually missed a few while present just because it was more fun to visit with my friends. I am interested in sexy women and men who look like them. And I will be lavish with my appreciation for anyone who is a treat for my old eyes!

So far the DQ's I've met are all gay men and they invariably say that dressing does not excite them at all. What a pity. If I looked as good as they do I'd cancel my prescription for Viagra!

[Avana]

Great show. My favorite from past shows was Tatiana.

tatiana!!?

ugh! her personality and looks were flatter than my hardwood floor! Definitely pretty though.

[Christinedreamer]

I am in the camp that appreciates female impersonators as opposed to drag queens. To me, most drag queens are knockoffs of Bozo and the parody of "female" appearance is a real turn off. On the other hand when someone does a fabulous and believable makeup or characterization of a GG performer I am impressed. Sadly, the outrageous drag queens are the ones that get public attention BECAUSE they usually are so over painted and outlandish. Unfortunately to many in the vanilla world, that is brush that paints all CDers and any one in the TG world and makes acceptance that much harder.

[Alice Torn]

Dittos Tex Kimberley!

[Roberta Marie]

I am in the same camp as Kimberly. The over the top, vulger drag shows really offend me. Maybe I'm a prude, but from my perspective, they are insulting me and all TGs, perpetuating the stereotypes that som many have of TGs. In my opinion, they are no better than when white guys would put on black face in the '20s. Just as those minstral shows were an insult to african-americans, I see drag shows as an insult to TGs.

Just my opinion.

Grace,
Bobbi

[Samantha B L]

I like drag queens and I've noticed(without intending to sound antagonistic)that a lot of people(not all)in the forum tend to snub drag queens more or less and really,look down their nose at the drag queens as being sort of lowbrow and demeaning crossdressing and any serious acceptance of things LGBT as anything but an out-for-ridicule joke. Yet if a drag queen ain't a crossdresser then what are they? Because I'm not very passable(maybe I could be with an expensive salon makover)I sort of go with a drag queen kind of look. I remember when I was a kid in grade school there was virtually NO mention of anything resembling "homosexuality" and "transvestitism" in the papers or on TV in America. This is back about 1963 or 1964 that I'm talking about. The first Sexual Reassignment Surgery had already taken place SRS was in use but there were still some psychiatrists and psychologists practicing here and there who thought if you were any of those things you were bonkers and needed to be broken of your weird and deranged hangups. What I'm getting at is when I was 7 or 8 I was feeling all sorts of urges. I wanted a "Betty's Beauty Parlor Set" and I wanted a "Big Hair" hairdo like the kind you see on women like Ronnie Spector. Those hokey old TV variety shows often had drag impersonators,singers,dancers and standup comedians even back in those dark ages of cold war reactionary thinking and it gave me some hope that I wasn't the only one obviously! I'm a published rock critic in an online magazine. I play a 1952 Les Paul and my music has been played several times on a radio show that goes out to over 100 radio stations in the USA and Canada. I don't sing,dance,act or do stand up but I'm hoping to get some drag queens that I know of to use some routines and stuff I've written. I don't know if that would make me a drag queen or not. Maybe a junior member.

[docrobbysherry]

I agree with earlier posts! That MANY DQs really try to parody females. I prefer "female impersonators"! They try to RESEMBLE women, rather than make fun of them!

However, I have seen both sensational looking, and incredibly funny, DQs!

If there WERE DQs when I was younger, and had I dressed back then, I PROBABLY WOULD have tried it!

[NathalieX66]

I have Anna Conda on my guy youtube channel....mainly because she's singing one of my favorite band's songs.
I can say that I am guilty of enjoying watich RuPaul's Drag race. I'm amazed at how well these girls can tuck.

[CarlaWestin]

I recently saw Frank Marino's Divas Las Vegas. What an exceptionally over the top show it was. I got to meet Frank after the show. Elegant gowns and perfect make up. The entire performance was top shelf. If this is refined Drag, then I'm all for it. What I can't stand is when the ignorant chattering class throw around the word tranny.

[silhouette]

Yet if a drag queen ain't a crossdresser then what are they? Because I'm not very passable(maybe I could be with an expensive salon makover)I sort of go with a drag queen kind of look.

It's not a look that has offended people, it's the demeaning attitude that some drag queens portray in their performances.
I can't really hate on them too much, because there are pictures of me acting like a ***** in public :doh:

[5150 Girl]

Drag queens are cool.
I could see myslef prforming en-fem, possibly doing a VanHalen inspired guitar solo,,, BUT, I don't see me doing the over the top makeup and waht not.

[2SpeedTranny]

The other pet peeve I have with many drag queens is lip syncing. Call me a snob, I dont really care, but lip syncing does nothing for me and I'd only just barely consider it a talent at all.

That "talent" has gotten Britney Spears a long way... :devil:

But yeah... lip syncing is lamer than lame. You can still make a living as a really bad, tone deaf singer... just ask Bob Dylan.

I'd rather see a hot DQ -- with a real band -- who sounds like Country Dick Montana than try to suspend disbelief long enough to equate that 6'8" 320lb queen on stage with Lady Gaga on the sound system.

[robyn1114]

I applauded their courage for being who they are, but I would much rather be an everyday kind of girl.

[Lisa_Marie]

as a performer i know what its like to stand in front of a room full of people and have to put on a show for them but i only do that in rhinestoned jumpsuits to do that in full drag make up hair etc is a remarkably impressive thing to do but i guess once you have learned your act then its no different to just putting ur costume on.

oh and raven from ru pauls drag race was awesome and so was morgan mcmichaels 'pink' outfit

[Chickhe]

I like taking their tips on makeup from you tube and using it for my own selfish purposes... ;-) I like the impersonator style more than the parody type shows. To me it is most facinating when you forget the performer is actually male and is not the actress being portayed.