(CNN) — To many, the stereotypical image of a drag queen is one of a gay man dressed in exaggerated feminine getup, oversized wigs and heavy makeup. But drag’s image — and history — is far more ...

The West name garners national acclaim today, but so too did the names of the city’s drag progenitors in their day—dating ...

Purdue alumni Ciara Myst is set to be a contestant on season 18 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race in the new year. She reflects on the ...

Untitled Queen performs Erykah Badu’s “On & On” during Untitled (Rosemont), (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Though Untitled (Rosemont) doesn’t start until 10:30pm, bodies begin to fill ...

Drag is performance art, full stop. While terms like fem boy, twink, and cross-dresser involve everyday presentation or personal expression, drag is explicitly theatrical—a heightened, exaggerated, ...

One performance night before a sparse crowd entered the bar, Will Lattman spent more than an hour perfecting his makeup. His eyes, flittering with fake eyelashes, took the longest. His transition from ...

Sen. Scott Wiener’s office is hosting a show of artist Joseph Abbati’s large tapestry portraits of San Francisco drag queens, each with their own story of giving back to the community. A reception for ...

A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring artists from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will stop in Pensacola despite the state attorney general’s efforts to stop it ...

Rise Up: Pride in the Park 2025 moves to at Cascades Park this year after 15 years at Kleman Plaza. Tallahassee Pride’s annual festival of LGBTQ+ visibility and celebration will be held from 2-7 p.m.

“Drag is the theatrical exaggeration of gender,” said Joe E. Jeffreys, a drag historian and adjunct instructor at New York University, who noted that the artform constantly subverts “what people think ...