Drag Queens Jackie Cox, Chelsea Piers, Ginger Snap and Paige Turner turned up as Drag Lisa Rinna, Drag Erika Jayne, Drag Captain Sandy, and Drag Lisa Vanderpump (respectively).
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It's a Drag Queen spin class led by a Flywheel instructor and a drag queen in full drag.
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Drag king [drag king] | noun (drag kings) A (usually cisgender) woman who performs as a man for an audience.
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Drag queen [drag kween] | noun (drag queens) A (usually cisgender) man who performs as a woman for an audience.
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Within the world of drag, there's a sharp divide between the mainstream and alternative drag (otherwise known as alt drag).
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Why do you do drag, and how has your drag evolved over the course of two different Drag Race shows?
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She pointed out that Aquaria's entire sense of drag comes from RuPaul's Drag Race, rather than the larger drag world.
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Not every drag queen is so thrilled about how Drag Race has rebranded drag as a prominent pop culture fixture.
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"I knew they loved drag the way I loved drag, and they would celebrate the art of drag," Charles said.
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What have you learned about drag from Drag Race ?
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He was toying with defenders at every opportunity, drag-back after drag-back after drag-back until they eventually fell over.
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Much like Monét, who is a drag progeny of former Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen, Mayhem is from a prestigious LA drag family that includes Detox, Delta Werk, and Morgan McMichaels.
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"RuPaul's Drag Race" has succeeded in making drag culture mainstream.
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Related: How to Treat Drag Queens, According to Drag Queens
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Swimming like that is a drag — that also creates drag.
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"The drag scene is growing so much more because of shows like 'Drag Race Thailand' and 'RuPaul's Drag Race'," Pan Pan said.
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" And they call a drag queen a "butch queen in drag.
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Olympic swimmers try to maximize useful drag and minimize burdensome drag.
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At the drag bar, he gamely signs a drag queen's breastplate.
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RuPaul's Drag Race Wait, a new season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," already?
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I made a conscious decision not to include trans drag or faux drag, though I totally appreciate both forms of drag and have photographed both.
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Think again: We have hunky drag kings, seasoned queens, crazy drag creatures, queens with pedigree, queens you've seen on TV, but not on Drag Race.
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Hooper in the State Farm ads is DONE FOR GOOD ... which is a major drag, like a BIGGEST drag, the BIGGEST drag we've ever seen.
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Pageant drag or artsy drag, people have ideas about what those look like that run contrary to the idea that drag pushes the limits of identity.
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I don't even have a drag name yet, because normally you get your drag name from your drag mother, and that's like a super organic thing.
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BibleGirl, the CEO of Drag Queen Merch, says that apparel licensing offered her a way to take advantage of the ways Drag Race was changing drag.
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Miss Wendy the drag queen plays the Virgin Mary in drag in 2008.
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RuPaul in drag promoting the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
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BUSCH When I started doing drag in '84, drag was not so cool.
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In 2014 I won a pageant called Miss Continental that was basically RuPaul's Drag Race before RuPaul's Drag Race — the biggest thing you could win in drag.
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In 2009, Brown appeared in the first season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," a reality show on which drag queens compete to become the next big drag superstar.
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I did drag makeup on myself twice, just to see what it was, because I've always been a fan of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and drag in general.
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I pray "Drag" means Drag Queen-themed, but I don't get my hopes up.
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On Chimera, Negrón's drag operaI grew up in the 80s surrounded by drag queens.
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Drag Race has changed the whole face of drag completely—everyone's doing it now.
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The "Swish Swish" performance also featured famous drag queens including RuPaul's Drag Race's Vivacious.
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Before my "Drag Race" season, I had been doing drag for roughly a year.
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My goal in drag before Drag Race wasn't really to look like a woman.
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"The drag scene is littered with racial microaggressions," says black drag queen Leigh Fontaine.
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Glace Chase, a New York drag queen who sings, says "Ru Paul's Drag Race" and its spinoff industry have also brought drag and gender nonconformity to the mainstream.
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A longtime lover of drag ever since he came out at 22, he's frequented drag nights at bars and binge-watched every season of Drag Race with his husband.
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A self-described "baby drag queen," Katastrophe is part of a new movement dubbed "kinder drag," where young people explore drag performance as a form of creative self-expression.
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If all of these dudes love drag so much but would never do it in the club, is what they like drag or is what they like Drag Race?
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All four approach drag in different ways but for Schatz drag has always been political.
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Kickass Drag Queen stands out through the way it swaps superhero tropes for drag references.
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I think that drag, and especially RuPaul's Drag Race, is helping us move toward that.
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Drag Race has made drag culture more visible on a national level than ever before.
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I feel my drag persona—like myself not in drag—is androgynous and gender-bending.
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Even Magnus Hastings, who made his name in drag photography with his book Why Drag?
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STYLES An article last Sunday about drag queens misstated the surname of a drag historian.
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But it was undeniably drag: weird and apocalyptic, drag as seen through a cracked mirror.
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If you're doing drag and you're not using Facetune, then, girl, you're not doing drag.
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I think the drag show every Thursday is the longest standing drag show in Philly.
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All of this exemplifies the seismic impact RuPaul's Drag Race has had on drag culture.
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Related: Hello, Hunty: Meet Mathu Andersen, Instagram's Drag Icon The Art of Drag Performance| TCP Meets Miz Cracker This Drag Queen is Serving a New Look Every Day in 2016
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"Last Friday, a group of drag queens" -- a handful of them hometown Stud girls -- "debuted 'Digital Drag: An Online Drag Show' using the video game streaming website Twitch," Ryan said.
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And as they continue to evolve and push the boundaries of drag, so does Drag Race.
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Hastings's photographs and his subjects' thoughts on drag are compiled in a new book, Why Drag?
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CD: What are some stereotypes about drag and drag queens that you wish would go away?
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He first caught the drag bug while watching his mom, Wendy Napoles, watch RuPaul's Drag Race.
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What she's doing is teaching people how to be drag queens, and not mainstream drag queens.
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Teaching a semester-long undergraduate course called "Critical Drag" that birthed 21 new baby drag artists.
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Trixie, it turns out, is the best drag queen who is horrible at RuPaul's Drag Race.
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There are often Puerto Rican drag queens on Drag Race but no one has ever won.
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They both do drag and are artists in the queer and drag community in San Francisco.
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I don't have a drag mother yet so I don't really have a drag persona really.
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Brooklyn drag queen Aja hasn't gotten the best edit on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Related: Hello, Hunty: Meet Mathu Andersen, Instagram's Drag Icon This Drag Queen is Serving a New Look Every Day in 2016 3D Body Scans of Drag Queens Become Virtual Reality Art
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You also have some RuPaul's Drag Race queens this cycle, too — you had future Drag Race winner Raja on Top Model as a makeup artist before Drag Race was a thing — so what inspired you to bring more Drag Race queens into the fold this year?
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Related: The Art of Drag Performance| TCP Meets Miz Cracker High Tech Drag-cessories: Color Changing Wig and Light Controlling Nails Sasha Velour's Fashion Designer Dishes on Her Daring 'Drag Race' Looks
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But he also conceded that Drag Race's popularity may be "the most mainstream [drag] will get," especially as a new generation of would-be drag queens get inspired by his own show.
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Ally can accentuate qualities of femininity and female aesthetics for her drag persona, but Jackson sees her talent in spite of the drag, not the drag as an augmentation of her talent.
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One of the ball&aposs four judges was Vivacious, a drag performer from RuPaul&aposs Drag Race.
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Years later, drag queen Pandora Boxx would drop the line while impersonating Channing on RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Though she didn't win Drag Race, people certainly believe she has become the country's next drag superstar.
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In an August story for Popsugar, "Sashay Through the History of Drag Queen Culture," drag historian Joe.
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And then, of course, there's RuPaul's Drag Race, which turned drag ball culture into a televised competition.
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There's the person behind their drag persona, their drag character themselves, and then their chosen Halloween costume.
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Drag Race also highlights how tight-knit and supportive the drag community can be toward one another.
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Drag queens Trixie Mattel and Bob the Drag queen, admittedly, tell a few lies of their own.
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"When drag queens date, it can be very difficult," said Los Angeles–based drag performer Marrie Aquanett.
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That's not to say drag queens don't attract thirsty fans and "drag chasers," as Aquannet calls them.
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I never thought about combining it with drag, 'cause to me, well, drag queens don't play guitar.
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She and her drag sister, Rubber Child, really helped snowball my fixation on the internet drag scene.
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RuPaul's Drag Race has inspired an entire generation of queer youth to try their hand at drag.
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Related: Drag Queen-Artist Sasha Velour Is America's Next Drag Superstar These LGBT+ Films Put Diverse Queer Voices on the Big Screen When You're Sasha Velour, Drag Is More Than Lipstick and Liza
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Related: When You're Sasha Velour, Drag Is More Than Lipstick and Liza The Art of Drag Performance| TCP Meets Miz Cracker This Drag Queen is Serving a New Look Every Day in 2016
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Tammie Brown, who appeared on Drag Race season one and Drag Race All Stars, prefers not to have sex in her work clothes, but she doesn't mind going on a date in drag.
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As you said, you've been doing drag a long time, but drag has changed a lot in the past few years, mostly thanks to people watching RuPaul's Drag Race and responding to it.
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Where we really saw this obsession with Drag Race over drag culture was in the transformation challenge, where each of the girls had a social media influencer to turn into a drag queen.
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" Mr. Busch, 63, is now performing this Tuesday through Saturday at Feinstein's/54 Below — ostensibly out of drag, he says, "but what I call 'out of drag' other people might call 'full drag.
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Drag queen merch was, in many ways, an outgrowth of fan art, which speaks to RuPaul's Drag Race's ability to make fans into active participants of the drag economy market it has created.
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After some research into the drag scene in Vancouver, I came across a drag troupe known as Bratpack.
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"Drag pushed me to express myself on a daily basis," explains drag king Phantom in the trailer above.
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The 20-year-old Hertfordshire resident was first introduced to the art of drag through RuPaul's Drag Race.
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If you're unfamiliar, Alyssa Edwards is a drag queen who appeared on two seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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For the drag queen Sasha Velour, tears make drag about more than a funny man in a dress.
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Drag one down to the Do Not Include section and then drag "Heart Rate" to the Metrics section.
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Another important consideration is that people would talk about "drag rock" back then, but David never wore drag.
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Seeing drag artists perform helps them to immerse themselves in the culture and experience drag at its roots.
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I think I've respectfully earned the right to be called a drag musician rather than a drag queen.
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Some people who like to dress in drag and who make their living as drag queens might, true.
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Each season, some of the country's best drag performers fight for the title of America's Next Drag Superstar.
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At right: Achraf, 25, is a self-described drag queen whose drag mother — that is, the person he identifies as his close mentor in the drag community — fled Tunisia because of persecution under Article 230.
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You can then drag it left or right to change its place in the lineup or drag it up into the "Drag to Hide" area that temporarily appears in place of the photo being edited.
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In his new book, GuRu, the RuPaul's Drag Race star opens up about how drag helped him find himself.
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"We started chatting online after she watched Drag Race and tweeted about me," Bob the Drag Queen told Refinery29.
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There's mainly men, and also drag kings, which is beautiful, and also trans drag performers and things like that.
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It's also important to emphasize how radically RuPaul's Drag Race has changed the popularity of drag performers in America.
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" For the uninitiated, "RuPaul's Drag Race" is a competition on the Logo network to find "America's next drag superstar.
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Drag queens no longer simply imitate women; today's characters are complex riffs on drag icons that have come before.
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I've been doing drag for two years, but in my first Drag Race audition tape, I said since birth.
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I respect drag as a queer tradition, but I didn't come from a background of being a drag queen.
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That's what drag queen Phi Phi O'Hara's doing in all of 2016 for her project 365 Days of Drag.
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Riley Knoxx also appears as Beyoncé, but she's not a drag queen, and she never competed on Drag Race.
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In this lesson, you will learn about the history of drag and about several preteen and teen drag queens.
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A drag queen from "RuPaul's Drag Race," who I love, performed there that night, so it was entirely possible.
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These resources go toward purchasing books, paying drag queens, and funding training programs — two hour-and-a-half sessions that teach drag queens to talk effectively to children and their parents about gender identity and drag.
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If anything, Drag Race is becoming bolder, challenging ideas about what drag culture and even queer identity means in 2017.
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How much drag would the balloon create, and how rapidly would the drag cause it to fall out of orbit?
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Kitty's heart and mission lie in female drag, but the drag scene at large hasn't always accepted what she does.
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When RuPaul's Drag Race debuted in 229, it embodied the determined spirit that drag has been thriving under for decades.
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I've always been a big fan of drag, but now I basically only follow drag queens (and pigeons) on Instagram.
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The "RuPaul's Drag Race" star collaborated with Opening Ceremony on a drag show that ended with a glittering surprise performance.
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In a sizzle reel pitch for "Asia O'Hara's Drag Race," Asia took The Vixen on a Drag Oprah test-walkabout.
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"We had a kid who was a drag queen one year and a drag king the next," Robin Johnson said.
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Someone is trying to drag down One Direction over its song, "Drag Me Down," claiming the group pilfered the tune.
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Trannyshack, a drag show by legendary local drag queen Heklina, premiered in 1996, lasting 12 years as a weekly event.
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" When one of the officers says they'll have to drag him off, Dao replies, "Then drag me, I'm not going.
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They started doing drag at 16, won the Brooklyn Nightlife Award for best drag queen at 22, went on to compete in Rupaul's Drag Race Season Nine in 2017 and in All Stars Season Three the next year.
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"When we dress up in drag and live our best queer lives, it's political," says Miss Jade, who performs at Macri Park bar in Brooklyn every Thursday with Alotta McGriddles, another drag queen, after episodes of "Drag Race".
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The 27-year-old drag queen appeared on Fox's live production of Rent on Sunday, where she played a drag queen of another name — Angel Dumott Schunard, the HIV-positive drag queen and drummer at the musical's heart.
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DO THE DRAG DISHES The monthly web series "Cooking With Drag Queens" is just that: the hosts (and husbands) Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion dishing and making dishes with drag queens in the kitchen of their Chicago home.
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But three Australian artists have found a way to harness the physicality of drag performers in for their project Virtual Drag, in which they created 3D body scans of drag queens for audiences to view in virtual reality.
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Drag queens from "RuPaul's Drag Race" will be featured in a Sabra Hummus ad set to air during the Super Bowl, the first time drag queens will appear in a commercial during the football event, NBC News reports.
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I started doing drag when I was in my senior year of high school; I was part of a drag house.
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RuPaul's Drag Race has built a cult following among queer and straight viewers alike, making international celebrities out of drag queens.
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"The first time you go out in drag you feel fabulous," says Trevor Efinger, better known as drag queen Holly Dae.
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For Democrats at least, drag queens are so acceptable that Nancy Pelosi showed up in a recent episode of "Drag Race".
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That's what makes Drag Race so fun to watch, too—you're seeing these drag queens having to do all this shit.
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Camp humor is often a subtly subversive political tool; as a drag icon to millions, Bob the Drag Queen would know.
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"Drag Race Thailand" made its debut last month and Pan Pan credits the show with helping Thailand's drag scene to blossom.
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"For so long I was like 'I don't want to get into drag because drag queens don't play guitar,'" Trixie explains.
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Why is the fashion world obsessed with RuPaul's "Drag Race," a platform for those hoping to be "America's next drag superstar"?
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I use drag to make money, but I do drag because I love it and believe that it brings people pleasure.
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You drag your signature line from DocuSign into your document, then you drag a payment line along with it if required.
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The iconic drag queen stars in AJ and the Queen, a glitzy-but-heartfelt dramedy packed with Drag Race fan-favorites.
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San Francisco-based drag queen Mama Celeste believes the lack of Ivanka drag queens is due to a lack of originality.
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Since I first started my drag career 10 years ago and stepped onto RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2, not only have I grown and evolved as an entertainer, but the acceptance and the visibility of drag has also evolved.
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Once they held two funerals for a drag queen, Cardinal told me: one with the deceased in drag, for the gay friends.
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His rise to stardom helped give drag a presence on an international scale, which later exploded into what drag culture is now.
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RuPaul's career and "Drag Race" acted as a springboard for other drag queens to make a living through performances and corporate sponsorships.
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For Peppermint, RuPaul's comments should prompt some soul-searching in the LGBT community over the influence Drag Race holds over drag culture.
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But is the festival a harbinger of an alt-drag resurgence, or just another sign that drag as a whole is flourishing?
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Why then does the week start to drag and drag, to the point where it feels like Turkey day might never arrive?
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But not all Drag Race contestants speak out politically in fear of alienating fans — something that irritates longtime drag performer Jackie Beat.
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While Drag Race is about drag, do you feel there's also an awareness of the show's reality television format while you're filming?
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The Demon will be the first car to come from the factory with drag radials, or tires specifically designed for drag racing.
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When I get sick of a drag queen I lock them away somewhere and tell people that they need time off drag.
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With that in mind, TikTokers are celebrating our quarantine lewks with a trend inspired by RuPaul's Drag Race and drag ball culture.
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RuPaul's Drag Race For a show that celebrates the power and glory of artifice, "RuPaul's Drag Race" is tackling some gritty realities.
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A host, supermodel, singer and drag personality, RuPaul was a prominent presence in New York's club and drag scene in the '80s.
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RuPaul's Drag Race, where drag queens compete for a cash prize of $43,24, has overhauled a once niche artistic (and activist) endeavor.
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When I'm in drag, I just identify myself as a drag queen — traditionally, drag is the art of female impersonation, which would indicate that I'm a man playing the role of a woman, and I'm very comfortable with that role.
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Piyarat Kaljareuk, executive producer of "Drag Race Thailand", says he wants to bring drag queens out of the clubs and into a more prominent role in society as part of a greater acceptance of the drag scene and the LGBT community.
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Drag Race rears overnight celebrities, which couldn't be more exemplified by the long lines of loyal fans waiting hours just to meet their drag idols, especially teenagers who aren't old enough to go to the nightclubs the drag queens perform at.
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A lot of fans of drag don't necessarily see the whole picture or have access to the whole picture, so, hopefully having more discussions about what the history of drag is, what types of people do drag, what kinds of drag have been around and how long, that will all help viewers have more context, and maybe it'll change the way that people talk about the show in future seasons… or talk about drag queens online.
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RuPaul Charles: The queen of drag RuPaul Charles was a key figure who brought drag out of the closet and into the mainstream.
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"What I love the most about drag is the story of the drag queen behind the facade," Williams said in a press release.
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But the gag is (yup, yet another phrase that originated in drag culture) that the okurr timeline doesn't even begin with drag slang.
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When, on Season 8, Derrick Barry called Bob the Drag Queen "ratchet," he employed the same racist language prevalent in white drag fandom.
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Apple has implemented a system-wide drag-and-drop gesture that lets you drag files and app icons from one place to another.
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For the first hour and a half, Medina completed a start-to-finish drag look on the model, a drag queen named Digna.
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Which makes the sudden appearance of Kickass Drag Queen, an Instagram comic about drag queens with superpowers, feel both praiseworthy and long overdue.
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On iPad, the app is even better because it supports drag-and-drop – meaning you drag images from other apps to your collections.
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And within the drag world, there's also its own fashion industry of its own — drag designers and the fashion subculture within a subculture.
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Natvig, a drag queen who goes by the name Vivian Vaughn, is the reigning Miss Gay North Carolina – a pageant for drag queens.
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The infamous drag queen is on a roll: this marks his third album timed with a new season premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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"It's especially inspiring to see the [drag queens] of RuPaul's Drag Race speaking out," says Claire Mysko, CEO, National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).
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Just drag a speaker up into the main area to add it to your "party" and drag it back down to remove it.
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Despite campaign claims, this more likely will either drag down Warren's presidential campaign — or drag down a lot of Democratic politicians next fall.
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With memorable appearances in RuPaul's Drag Race and A Star Is Born, Shangela is one most of the recognizable drag queens performing today.
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After that, West Dakota started playing with drag, making her public debut in October 2016 when another Brooklyn drag queen pulled her onstage.
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And you can enjoy a drag brunch with insane acrobatics by experienced drag queens and unlimited mimosas at Palace Bar across the street.
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" Chester says this is why he doesn't have a drag name: "Drag is very much a part of me, not an alter ego.
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The Carnival Kings of New Orleans are a 30-member drag king family who host the longest-running drag king show in Louisiana.
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I have a strong interest in documenting the East London drag scene so the idea to contrast drag and punk was almost instant.
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Lisa Limbaugh: I feel like politics aren't directly involved in my drag life, but they affect my overall life as a drag queen.
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Since the air drag force is in the opposite direction from the gravitational force, a significant air drag would increase the falling time.
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This winner of the sixth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" describes her drag persona as a cross between John Waters and Joan Rivers.
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When I did the 'Drag Brunch' sketch on 'SNL,' I remember thinking, 'Damn, this is a lot of work' getting into partial drag.
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"What Is Drag In Trump's America" discussed the challenges and opportunities of doing drag under this administration, while "The Truth About Trolls" focused on proud trans women in the drag scene and how to thrive in a world filled with social media meanies.
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He, of course, hosts, judges and executive produces RuPaul's Drag Race, the acclaimed drag queen reality competition series to find the "America's next drag superstar," for which he has won two outstanding reality show host Emmy awards (in 2016, 2017 and 2018).
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"'Drag king' is not even a common term in people's vocabulary... There is one show on cable TV that highlights and celebrates the drag community, and that show has chosen to exclude performers who are not drag queens from participating," she says.
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And because this is also "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" — one of the reality TV shows in the mini-drag empire overseen by RuPaul Charles, the self-proclaimed drag "supermodel of the world" — Ms. Edwards, a drawling diva out of Mesquite, Tex.
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Peacock has been performing gender blending since their time at Oberlin College, where they were a two-time winner of the Oberlin Drag Ball—first, one year as a drag king, and then the following year, as a drag queen, to much controversy.
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" For Jinkx Monsoon, who came out as nonbinary shortly after winning Drag Race's fifth season, "drag is the way that I express myself in a safe way, and drag is also the way that I'm able to express myself day to day.
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"Before I was performing of fans of drag, and now I'm performing from fans of Drag Race — which are two different things," he says.
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Ocasio-Cortez not only enjoyed performances by drag queens, drag kings and burlesque dancers, she took time to share a message with the crowd.
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Drag Race has inarguably carried the art of drag into mainstream culture, making visible an art form that once existed only in the shadows.
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Queens from the scene they helped create have made waves for several seasons running on RuPaul's Drag Race, a cultural bellwether for drag nationally.
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Four years ago, he promised himself that for his 30th birthday he'd have a huge drag bash, which he'd attend in full drag himself.
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When I think about drag I think of New York, California, or big cities, but Kansas has a drag scene that's live and thriving.
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A year and a half later, I'm a full-time drag queen and a member of NYC's premier pop-vocal drag trio, Stephanie's Child.
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A 'traditional' drag queen said to me recently that women in drag is 'going too far,' so my performance tonight is dedicated to her.
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It's where we gathered to watch RuPaul's Drag Race and cheers and toast as we watched our local drag queens rise to national prominence.
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RuPaul's Drag Race has disqualified Sherry Pie (real name: Joey Gugliemelli), one of its drag queen contestants and frontrunners, amidst allegations of sexual misconduct.
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He saw his first drag performance: Crystal LaBeija, an icon in drag-queen history, was singing Donna Summer in black fishnets and a bustier.
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"I am very glad that we are at last moving forward with this and hope that it won't drag and drag," Turner told reporters.
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Even Drag Race guest judge Jenna Fischer appears for a spell, with Ginger Minj appearing in and out of drag the very same episode.
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And "Drag Me Up Paris," the live competition, emulates "Drag Race" with weekly rounds of elimination and dueling performers lip-syncing for their lives.
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And "Drag Me Up Paris," the live competition, emulates "Drag Race" with weekly rounds of elimination and dueling performers lip-syncing for their lives.
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It was about Drag Queen Story Hour, a public event series founded in 2015 in which drag queens read to children and lead singalongs.
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This was the spirit of DragCon, a sprawling shrine to all things drag but especially to alums of the reality competition show RuPaul's Drag Race, which wrapped its ninth season on June 23 by crowning Brooklyn queen Sasha Velour as America's Next Drag Superstar.
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Fans swarm Drag Race alums at their shows worldwide; over the past two years, tens of thousands attended RuPaul's "Drag Con" convention in Los Angeles.
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A drag show that featured a drag queen dressed as mom Zolciak-Biermann, performing "Tardy for the Party" with a red solo cup and everything.
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"RuPaul's Drag Race UK," an offshoot of the wildly popular US original, will pit British drag queens against each other during its eight-episode run.
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"I think it's really important for [The Met] to capture drag culture and drag costume as it relates to people of color's experience," she continues.
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That's what the missing thing is in the drag scene right now, so I really appreciate the drag here as far as queer stuff goes.
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Smith explained that he likes dressing in drag, revealing that he hits up the Australian drag shop House of Priscilla whenever he's in Sydney, Australia.
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Due to the recent trade war events, Goldman now estimates a cumulative drag on GDP of 0.6%, including a 0.2% drag from the latest escalation.
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Where to watch: Hulu Drag Race is so much more than just a no-holds-barred drag queen competition show, though it is also that.
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Smith started his drag career while attending art school in Chicago and continued doing drag after moving to New York to pursue his art career.
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Her show, she explains, gives a glimpse at the future of drag— wherein the actual drag attire and aesthetic comes second to the show's comedy.
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Her best friend, Tom Rasmussen, went on to co-found a drag night named Denim that later transformed into an Edinburgh Fringe-conquering drag troupe.
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Related: Hello, Hunty: Meet Mathu Andersen, Instagram's Drag Icon Drag Revues and Backwards Bach Performances A New Art Show Tracks Queer Life in Everyday Portraits
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Developed by Brooklyn drag queen and artist Untitled Queen, it's an "art experience installation, studio visit, process-as-piece DIY drag show" making its debut.
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NightGowns: RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour takes viewers behind the scenes of her acclaimed drag revue as it's adapted into a full stage production.
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I've been doing drag for a while, but to join the Rockettes, I was subject to lengthy tests of my willpower, drag prowess, and loyalty.
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Her most recent drag revue, Nightgowns, obtained rave reviews, which she believes is due to the diversity of her act, reminiscent of the lineup in shows she hosted before being on TV. Nonbinary drag performers, drag kings, comedy queens, and more show "the whole lineup of what drag can be in one night," Velour says, creating a safe and inclusive space for people of varying identities.
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I don't want to look at this as the final moment of the journey, but rather the jumping-off point, because I have a platform and resources to keep improving my drag, but [I also want to] use my spotlight and share it with other people in the drag community who maybe don't have access to RuPaul's Drag Race, but whose drag I still believe in.
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Lip syncing is a huge part of drag culture; Drag Race, which has been on the air since 2009, features contestants lip syncing in every episode.
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Love for RuPaul's Drag Race It's amazing to think that after 10 seasons of outstanding television, RuPaul's Drag Race has only won an Emmy Award now.
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Sources tell us Andrew Bryson -- whose drag name is Blair St. Clair -- is currently taping in L.A. as a contestant for season 10 of 'Drag Race.
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Just being on "Drag Race" can launch a drag queen's career, and many of the 112 contestants featured so far have gone on to further success.
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Becca D'Bus, a local drag performer, points out that for decades Bugis Street, a busy shopping area, was famous for the artistry of its drag shows.
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However, this Florida couple from the website Drag Times just bonded over drag racing a Tesla Model S P2503D versus a Model X P90D Founders Edition.
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Called atmospheric drag, this often happens naturally, or a satellite (if it has fuel) can be thrust into an orbit where atmospheric drag can take hold.
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The documentary comes amidst what Wills refers to as a "zeitgeist" moment for drag, referring to the pop culture phenomena that is of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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"So, this shouldn't drag ASEAN countries into the dispute, and it shouldn't drag Cambodia to get involved," he added, describing the Cambodian position at the meeting.
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Under six knots, the boat is experiencing 100 percent drag, while above eight knots, the boat is "flying" and the drag is reduced to 16 percent.
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The Reader doesn't retcon the language of these forerunners—the word "faggot" was in common usage then, "scare drag" also (drag queens who scared the straights).
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It's called Drag Race, and I knew the "drag" bit I could do, and do it very well, because I slayed the runway every single time.
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TV shows like RuPaul's Drag Race and the Sink the Pink night on the festival circuit might not normalise drag, but they get it out more.
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The Boulet Brothers host DRAGULA, a webseries and drag show hoping to find the World's Drag Supermonster, of which Vander Von Odd was the first winner.
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There were 18 protests alone targeting Drag Queen Story Hour events, in which drag queens read to children and their family members at local public libraries.
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I think what they're doing is walking around searching for drag lines, and then they follow those drag lines and that leads them to other spiders.
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Venus Boyz, part of this week's series, traces the connections between drag and transsexuality, with director Gabriel Baur interviewing drag kings in late 1990s New York.
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Yes, I think drag is a form of subversion, although it doesn't have to be if that's not what you want to make your drag about.
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This year, over 300 drag artists descended on the Knockdown Center for the fest, which was founded by drag artist Horrorchata, to serve looks and shows.
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This does cast sunshine on an important deliberation in the drag world — with new money pouring in to select drag super PACs, should there be reform?
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And unless you live in one of the few drag capitals of the country with an abundance of drag venues, you're better off hosting one yourself.
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The winner of "RuPaul&aposs Drag Race UK" mistakenly accused "The X Factor" of being unwilling to pay drag queen performers after a paperwork mix-up.
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Before Two Weeks To Live, she'll be taking on the totally unexpected role of guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. "What I love the most about drag is the story of the drag queen behind the facade," Williams said in a press release back in May.
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Drag has exploded into the spotlight in the last couple of years, thrust into mainstream culture by RuPaul's Drag Race and Drag Queen Story Hour, glamorized for its glitter and the generally over-the-top, too-big-to-fail personalities involved in many of the shows.
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" The weekend's programming included beauty tutorials and speaker panels touching on a variety of topics from drag "herstory" ("90's Realness Revisited"), health ("Workouts A Drag"), entertainment ("LGBT As Seen On TV"), social media ("America's Top Beauty Bloggers"), and politics ("What Is Drag In Trump's America?
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But in the Western, RuPaul's Drag Race–sense, drag as we know it—as a political act and performance art—has only recently risen in the country.
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However, it wasn't until RuPaul launched Drag Race in 2009 on Logo TV, that the lip sync aspect of drag was pushed to a much wider audience.
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Last year, RuPaul told ABC News that he thought neither he nor Drag Race, the televised drag competition he's hosted for nine seasons, could ever go mainstream.
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Amanda D'Rhod A woman is suing a drag queen and a restaurant in Tampa, Florida, claiming the drag queen injured her with her breasts during a performance.
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And Valentina from RuPaul's Drag Race will perform as Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen who finds out they're HIV-positive and dies at a young age.
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RuPaul's Drag Race's star D.J. Pierce (who goes by the drag persona Shangela Laquifa Wadley) shines opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.
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Alexis appeared as a male in some roles and as her drag alter ego Eva Destruction in others, including the low-budget Killer Drag Queens on Dope.
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The world-renowned drag queen, who goes by Detox and has appeared on multiple seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race, found fame — and body envy — at age 17.
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In one of the videos that Jones said had been removed from YouTube, he spoke against an online series called "Drag Tots" with animated drag queen characters.
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For me, RuPaul's Drag Race, the drag queen competition-based reality TV show that's in its ninth season, is prime fodder for dinner conversations with my friends.
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She's also said that she didn't think the world was ready for Drag Race until the Obama administration, and that drag generally goes underground during conservative regimes.
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Drag queen Adore Delano from "RuPaul's Drag Race" says he should be a multi-millionaire, but his management stole almost everything out from under his powdered nose.
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He also joined the Portola Neighborhood Association, tapping into an alter ego — a drag queen named Severa Wang — for an annual fund-raiser called Drag Queen Bingo.
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An exhibition at the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division highlights the non-drag art of more than a dozen members of the Brooklyn drag queen scene.
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How was the punk (for back of a better word) drag that was happening at Pyramid different from the stuffier, old-fashioned drag people were used to?
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In the Saturday panel, "Drag Does Fashion Week: A Fashion Affair," makeup and beauty mogul Edward Bess, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and former RuPaul's Drag Race alum Miss Fame, Naomi Smalls, and Detox all agreed drag is changing the world of fashion—and not the other way around.
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Instead of getting dragged into the financial trap of starting drag as a low-paying gig, VyVyan Vyxn learned the tricks of dressing and performing in drag from her boyfriend in 2009 and used her business-focused mind to sell adult novelty products door-to-door in drag.
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It's been a laggard in the region, and a drag on the euro zone upturn for a few years ... and there are finally signs the drag is easing.
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Rozliubit recently completed a custom dagger for drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova, a former contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race and current star of The Trixie & Katya Show on VICELAND.
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The drag on his cape is going to be about 375 N (around 40 kg); that's about half what I'd estimate the drag for his body would be.
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But with the proliferation of drag on TV and it seeping into the mainstream, Velour saw more opportunities to perform in drag and be appreciated by large audiences.
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Drag and drop support is also on the way, so you'll soon be able to drag links or text from a browser window into an Outlook email draft.
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I feel like ever since the success of RuPaul's Drag Race, every drag queen wants to be on that show, whereas here, they just don't give a fuck.
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The reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race, which searches for America's "next drag superstar" has won a handful of awards including an Emmy and a Critic's Choice Award.
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"Drag Race" realises that the art-form of drag is rebellious, that it brings marginalised people together, and requires a confidence that is both fragile and out-sized.
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We're talking about Lush, of course — and to ring in the holidays, the brand turned to drag queens from RuPaul's Drag Race to take things up a notch.
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De Salvo continued into a Warhol-inspired art-making event called "Swish, Sketch, Drag," in which dozens of artists, many young, surrounded a catwalk, studiously sketching drag performers.
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I'm like, 'You know this book has nothing to do with RuPaul's Drag Race, but it talks a lot about the themes that operate in RuPaul's Drag Race.
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There are little drag shows all over the city now, but there is no place that has regular drag shows and gives queens a steady place to work.
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He points to a recent controversy following RuPaul's remarks about excluding trans Drag Race contestants as an example of the ongoing discussion around gatekeeping in the drag community.
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"Drag in the past 40 years has been reserved predominately for queer people in adult queer spaces," Dracmorda, one half of the Boulet Brothers drag duo, tells Broadly.
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In one way, the debate over drag kids mirrors one in drag as a whole: How mainstream can the art form become before it loses its subversive power?
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Joe E. Jeffreys, a drag historian and videographer who teaches a course on drag performance history at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, traces the look's history straight to Leigh Bowery and the club kids of the 1980s, and to East Village drag performers like Flloyd.
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He built a drag empire with more than 10 years of "RuPaul's Drag Race" on VH1, including multiple spin-off shows and the launch of "DragCon" in multiple cities.
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Gomes, who identifies as neither male nor female and whose drag persona is also visibly gender-nonconforming, said it was important to show different models of gender in drag.
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In keeping with drag tradition, competitors must perform, write new material, and sew while keeping their stiletto-sharp wits about them, making Drag Race a reality-show triple threat.
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"My drag was born in a community full of trans women, trans men, and gender non-conforming folks doing drag," tweeted the the show's most recent winner, Sasha Velour.
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If nothing else, RuPaul's Drag Race, as both a platform and a pulpit, has made it easier to envision being a drag queen as a full-time paying job.
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"We wanted to do political drag but got some pushback from other groups locally who said they didn't want politics to be part of the drag scene," he said.
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Like just come to something because if they try to drag it out for a year, they try to drag it so that the Democrats have their talking points.
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Phantom is just one of many drag performers featured in the upcoming film The Making of a King, a documentary that takes an intimate look at drag king culture.
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Bob the Drag Queen is calling out LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen -- insisting their show, "Lip Sync Battle," copied "RuPaul's Drag Race," and not the other way around.
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In the past month, people shared their renditions of yodel boy's Walmart performance, from makeup blogger James Charles to drag queen and RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Blair St. Clair.
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But a group of Latinx drag queens is hoping to change that, throwing regular "Drag Out HIV" balls to raise awareness about the virus in an accessible, nontraditional way.
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"Drag Queen Story Hour," a program in which men in drag read children's books to kids in libraries or bookstores, is reportedly seeing opposition in some rural, Southern towns.
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While it's hard to imagine in a world without RuPaul's Drag Race embedded in the mainstream, back in 1991, drag culture was a black sheep of the LGBTQ community.
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Hector Franco, who performs drag as Kiki Xtravaganza, told Insider that he was hired for the event and additionally hired Peace, Luzon, and the drag queens Loris and Gottmik.
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The most famous drag queen in the world, RuPaul, has collected three Emmys for hosting the reality competition "RuPaul's Drag Race," and is a singer and author to boot.
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"A Drag Queen Christmas: The Naughty Tour" was underway: a 30-city, cross-country trek featuring stars from "RuPaul's Drag Race," the Emmy-winning hit reality show on VH1.
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After the Rice Girls disbanded, Tita took to grooming another drag queen—Alex Baty, another N'Touch performer—into the drag queen and community organizer she is today: Estée Longah.
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Drag or a collision with another object or . . .
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Musk said the truck has a coefficient of drag of just 0.36, making it more aerodynamic than the Bugatti Chiron, a $266 million supercar with a drag coefficient of 2000.
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To reach the holy grail of drag—RuPaul's Drag Race—for example, queens have to be masterful makeup artists, fashion designers, actors, comedians, singers, dancers, models, and so much more.
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In one tweet, he told the world that on his "bucket list," he wanted nothing more than to get his makeup done by every drag queen from RuPaul's Drag Race.
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No matter how Drag Race fares in September, getting this many nominations is a clear sign that the show has traveled well outside its initial audience of preexisting drag fans.
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Back in 2016, former RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Aja went to her favorite Brooklyn dive, This n' That, for one last drag show before the bar closed down for good.
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Earth's thin outer atmosphere exerts a measurable drag on anything in such an orbit, and this drag means that, without regular boosts, that object will fall out of orbit eventually.
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They said their first-quarter forecast includes an expected drag from inventories, sequentially slower consumption growth, a drop in residential investment, and 0.4 percentage points drag from the government shutdown.
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"She has always claimed that when she met Rocky he was in drag, although he absolutely didn't seem to be somebody who would ever be in drag," Aes-Neihil says.
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"It's only when someone like RuPaul who identifies as a man and that's the whole gag where he's a man in drag [that you think] 'Oh, that's drag,'" she said.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) invited a drag queen to read to children at city hall after a library pulled its sponsorship for her "Drag Queen Story Hour" event.
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The other thing that's happened -- currency which happened to be a big drag in China, was only a 1 point drag last quarter, so some of that headwind has subsided.
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You can do drag with the support of your family but if you didn't have that, I could see how your need to do drag could become even more personal.
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It is vitally important to know the history and origins of drag, but it is also necessary to allow drag, as an art form, to grow and continually reinvent itself.
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Comedy queen Gina Tonic, who started doing drag in 22009 as a hobby, estimates she spends $2600,2450 annually on "drag-related expenses"—all of which are a tax write off.
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Drag me, Amanda To learn how to find a drag mother (or find out if your man is using you for money), check out the "Ask Misty" videos on YouTube.
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" A 20-year-old Drag Syndrome member who performs under the name Justin Bond, told the New York Times, "We deserve the right to be ourselves and be in drag.
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The winner of "RuPaul&aposs Drag Race UK" accused "The X Factor" of refusing to pay drag queen performers, but the accusation turned out to be a paperwork mix-up.
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This version of drag-as-QVC spokesperson has become a guiding light for a newer generation of drag queens who see merchandising as an integral part of their budding careers.
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Last weekend's Bushwig drag festival in New York City—a two-day celebration of LGBTQ art, culture, and, most importantly, alt drag—attempted to prove the fluidity of those divisions, and that they don't (or shouldn't) prevent queens from coming together, especially now that drag is bigger and more visible than ever before.
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But drag queens have always been on the cutting edge of activism, from the Compton's Cafeteria riots and the long history of protest-fueled clashes between drag queens and police to Pantigate, in which the Irish drag queen Panti Bliss sparked a national conversation in 2014 over homophobia in her home country's media.
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Jane is lucky to be included in drag events now—it wasn't too long ago when "drag" meant strictly conforming to the stereotypical look of one gender, and what was called "fishiness" was honored: Often considered a compliment, to be "fishy" was to be an extremely feminine, and thus, convincing, drag queen.
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" As for the infiltration of drag into mainstream makeup, Dam-Mikkelsen says, "I do see a lot of girls doing drag makeup, I know a lot of YouTubers doing extreme makeup.
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But it was RuPaul's Drag Race, the Emmy award–winning show, that truly brought drag culture — and, with it, RuPaul — out from gay bars and ballrooms and into people's living rooms.
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If drag is not yet mainstream—and Drag Race guest stars, from Lady Gaga to Chloë Sevigny to Aubrey Plaza, would indicate that it is—it is certainly no longer underground.
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Over the past five years, Brooklyn drag has become a synonym for avant-garde drag, the scrappy punk rock child of Leigh Bowery and Lady Bunny, of RuPaul and Keith Haring.
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"Then the projections came in, and the mood of the room changed," recounted the 30-year-old professional drag queen, comedian, and winner of the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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"It grows so much every year," explained Bang, a drag queen who believes drag's current wave of popularity has garnered a new generation of fans—the drag queens of the future.
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Hot, with a chance of shade: Bob the Drag Queen, Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls compete for $100,000 and the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" in this Season 8 finale.
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Local queen Juanita LaBanjee knows how to turn a party and Gramps is offering a two-for-one special: Come for one drag race finale and get two drag shows after.
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Katya quickly became a staple in the local Boston drag scene, making her way up through the ranks at drag venue Jacques Cabaret, which she also lived above for seven years.
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Where pageant titleholders—many of whom spent years and decades honing their craft—once claimed the most enviable perch in American drag, that honor now arguably belongs to Drag Race winners.
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Astute cinephiles might draw parallels between the story of a drag racing biker bro falsely accused of murdering another drag racing biker bro, and the 20043 street gang classic The Warriors.
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María Magdalena and Skanda López are two drag queens who, through social media, offer the opportunity to experience a glamorous night in drag for those who've been dying to try it.
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Thanks in part to the popularity of RuPaul's Drag Race, young queens like Lactatia and Desmond is Amazing are discovering their passion for drag and achieving viral recognition on social media.
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"Then we did a tow cable drag, you do a bear crawl with the tow cable, stand up and run back, but the most difficult part was the road wheel drag."
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I feel like a lot of people like us because we are real… in drag and out of drag, we are the same in people who we are on the internet.
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Here is the RuPaul interview in which he dismissed transgender drag performers (and his apology); now read Charlene Incarnate's essay on the long history of trans people in the drag community.
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Over the last year, the drag on growth from slower real exports rose to 0.9 percentage points, but less import growth meant a much smaller net trade drag of 0.4 points.
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Nina West, a queen who appeared on "Drag Race" and who has often performed for kids, said that while drag is a form of gender protest, it is not inherently sexual.
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The new programming includes "Co-Ed," which follows freshman college roommates as they navigate university life, and "Growing Up is a Drag," a coming-of-age drama about teen drag queens.
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Aside from her fame as a drag queen on "RuPaul's Drag Race," Jasmine Masters went viral in 2019 for a video that was originally posted on her YouTube channel in 2015.
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In case you're wondering ... tonight is NOT drag night.
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People drag a big tree (?!) into their living room.
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Dying without one — "intestate" — is a drag for everyone.
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The biggest drag was Apple , which fell 3.2 percent.
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The next biggest drag was the consumer discretionary index .
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UL - could face delays if the curbs drag on.
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As fathers to be, they got some of their most enthusiastic congratulations from the drag world — the regulars at the club where both men perform, dancing and lip-syncing, Tanner as a drag king and David as a sassy, 6-foot-tall drag queen in a tight skirt and size 12-wide high heels.
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Related: Hello, Hunty: Meet Mathu Andersen, Instagram's Drag Icon Meet the Amazing Male Ballerinas Dancing En Pointe in Drag Three Artists Locked Themselves in a Museum for a Simulated Mission to Mars
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Bushwig has always been an alt-drag festival, first and foremost, and its growing success might seem to reflect a moment when grittier drag styles are finally winning acceptance alongside mainstream traditions.
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I am a singer by trade, and I do like to bring that to my drag shows, but on top of that, I love putting a drag twist on pop culture references.
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First of all, she wants to make it clear that drag kings are not an offshoot of drag queen culture, since it seems to her more people are familiar with the latter.
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As for the argument that drag is "adult entertainment" that doesn't belong in a small town like Portland, the people who organize drag shows have a pretty solid argument against that, too.
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Hot Mess told Vox that Drag Queen Story Hour operates largely without taxpayer funds — all a library needs to host one is a children's book and a drag queen willing to volunteer.
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Like Roma, Bob doesn't begrudge drag queens who don't use their fame to address politics, but they also don't think that conservatives and Republicans will find a place on the drag runway.
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And last night, she did just that, having been crowned the queen supreme of RuPaul's drag ball—winning a cash prize of $100,000, a year's supply of cosmetics and eternal drag glory.
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I think having a television show that deals with drag queens in the beginning was a little off-putting to people, but for 70 percent of the show, we're not in drag.
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We're not going to be able to say what is and isn't drag because we're going to become aware of the fact that everybody's in drag a little bit of the time.
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You could use it to drag and drop tweets into a new tweet for instance, in order to quote a tweet, or drag it into a message to DM it to someone.
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"Darcelle made drag as it stands possible to all who followed," says Kevin Cook, better known as his drag persona Poison Waters, who has performed at Darcelle's for more than 25 years.
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The beginning of any Drag Race episode—when all the queens sit around in their wilting drag and talk about who went home the week before—is always my least favorite part.
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But it's also a crucial one so far as understanding Drag Race's evolution goes, because this is the season in which Drag Race made an overt play to capture the Youth audience.
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Accordingly, the bank forecast a "meaningful drag" on growth indicators for the next two months, which could extend to a short-lived drag on September payrolls ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 jobs.
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But he raised an interesting point: "Notice that there's no 'RuPaul's Drag Kings,' " Halberstam said — meaning the culture of drag where people, usually gay women, dress up as passable versions of men.
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Mitchell tells Vox that while drag incorporates cultural aspects from each of the LGBTQ community's individual segments — with some women performing as drag kings and other trans, queer, and nonbinary performers working as drag queens too — the art form can't be expected to express the complicated class, racial, and gender divisions experienced by distinct queer groups.
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And while much has changed in L.G.B.T. life over the past 20163 years (gay marriage, PrEP, Caitlyn Jenner and "RuPaul's Drag Race"), Lady Bunny retains the rude and crude spirit that has eroded over the decades, both from downtown Manhattan and from drag itself, now that "Drag Race" has minted a new crop of camera-ready stars.
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When you set the car to Drag Mode, it stiffens the rear shocks and softens the fronts to help transfer the weight to the meaty, 12.4-inch wide Nitto drag radials at launch.
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Christina Aguilera is swinging by RuPaul's Drag Race on Thursday for the first time to help judge the season 10 premiere, and PEOPLE's got the exclusive first look at her drag-tastic appearance.
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But back in 2000, when Michel became one of Berlin's first DJs to perform in drag, he was surprised by how challenging bringing the intertwined worlds of drag and DJing together actually was.
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"Of course, Rupaul and that style of drag has had this huge cultural influence, but I think it has just exposed the idea of drag to more people in general," she told VICE.
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Houston's song "So Emotional" has always been iconic, but it has taken on a new life after RuPaul Drag Race contestant Sasha Velour performed it during the Drag Race All Stars 28 finale.
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"Everyone and their mom, their aunt, and goddaughter wanted to be a drag queen," Untitled said, when she won—and in the years that followed, more Brooklyn clubs began to host drag events.
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Essentially, you can drag out elements from inside an app — like a note, an email, a compose window, or a tab — and as you drag, it will let you create a new window.
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Read these stories next: This Catchy Song Explores The Fascinating History Of Drag This Is What LGBTQ Resistance Looks Like Why The Drag March Is More Important To Me Than The Pride Parade
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You can drag any of the four sides of a window to change the size, and holding down the Shift and Option keys while you drag an edge resizes the whole window proportionally.
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What's funny is I have a great career from my Drag Race exposure but I don't have a great career because I was on Drag Race being exposed as a distinctly talented person.
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"If you look at who's having success in fashion right now, it's those who are paying homage to drag," said Bess, citing fashion label Belmonte and the Kardashians as those influenced by drag.
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I began to fantasize about being inside the world of drag I'd only been able to experience from my TV screen, and the possibility of finally meeting my favorite drag queens in person.
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CATCH THE CABARET New York Pride's big drag event is on Sunday, when "Night of 22 Queens," featuring Raja, Naomi Smalls and other popular performers from "RuPaul's Drag Race," takes over Stage 39.953.
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Since January, the Times Square outpost of that Mexican restaurant, known for its balloon hats and mega-margaritas, has hosted a popular Sunday drag brunch featuring unlimited cocktails and New York drag queens.
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It makes sense that Sasha Velour, the drag persona of Brooklyn-based artist Sasha Steinberg, who's currently starring on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race, first began life as a comic book character.
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" After performing their first duet, he said, "I was instantly sure that this was not, as he is sometimes referred to, a 'drag queen' — this was the furthest thing from a drag queen.
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Jack Doroshow, who organized drag shows around the United States and presided over them as the drag queen Flawless Sabrina years before such performers found a measure of mainstream success, died on Nov.
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You get 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' a reality competition show that pits drag queens from across the US (and occasionally from overseas) against one another in a test of 'charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.
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Then, having watched "Drag Race" and really loving the idea of putting an outfit together, thrift store shopping, getting a wig and thinking of a drag name got me really excited about it.
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In August, genderqueer drag performer Valentine Steaphon was kicked out of the New York City gay bar Boots & Saddle Drag Lounge after a verbal altercation with a cisgender woman in the women's bathroom.
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"Who is good at 'Drag Race' is equated to who is good at drag, and queens palette themselves to get on," Charlene, a Brooklyn queen and trans woman, said at her kitchen table.
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Delving into endings and negativity and the small, sad things, I've worked not just to drag those feelings into the light but to drag this little corner of the world into the negative.
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To learn more about the history of drag, watch this video (hosted by Trixie Mattel) and then answer the questions: What were some of the early appearances and uses of the word "drag"?
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The spin-off drag-queen competition features past contestants from "RuPaul's Drag Race" competing for a place in the show's Hall of Fame, and Pelosi will be a judge in its third season.
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Then you can plug your phone into your computer, drag those backup files onto your desktop (I'd also drag your photos over, just in case) and store them safely for your next phone.
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Controversial features like "Fast Passes" for meet-and-greets with certain girls last year further stressed how the monetization inherent in Drag Race's vision of drag was causing a rift within its fandom.
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On Hopelessness, her first album-length foray into electronic music—she deals in heavy subject matters that drag you under like quicksand, but ascendant beats drag you right back out of the mire.
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" Adds RuPaul: "Drag allowed me to lighten that s— up.
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You bet your ass it was a drag on trump.
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Trade deficits are also a powerful drag on U.S. economy.
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Materials and industrials were the biggest drag on the index.
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Example: Pretty much any GIF from RuPaul's Drag Race ever.
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It's been a busy year for Bob the Drag Queen.
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That may create a drag on the economy this year.
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Like actually spent hours finding and cutting out drag queens.
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Get ready to dance through 2,000 years of drag history.
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"[I'm] going to a drag show … duh," she told Vogue.
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And when I travel, why should I drag clothes around?
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And drag is about the real, it's about the heart.
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Because drag deconstructs identity, and identity is of the ego.
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My political platform is a TV show called Drag Race.
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The biggest difference is now you can drag and drop.
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"Total revenues beat, even with some substantial drag," he said.
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Maybe even fantasy The Bachelor and fantasy RuPaul's Drag Race.
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What was it like to finally be on Drag Race?
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That seems to be a big deal on Drag Race.
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For those readers who don't speak drag, can you explain?
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When I'm not in drag, I'm a very relaxed person.
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What's the hardest thing about dating as a drag queen?
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Like a nice, big coffee table book of drag artists.
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I think that drag artists shouldn't be overlooked so much.
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C., suggested the shutdown will "drag on," according to Bloomberg.
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Amazon's 0.43 percent fall was a drag on the sector.
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"We never really drag the kids to things," she says.
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Sorry, girl, but this isn't about realness, it's about drag.
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"I'll drag you, pregnancy and all," Samuels yells at Dillard.
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Others said his comments erased decades of trans drag history.
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And Ravenna went to the one run by drag queens.
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But for other tourists, Cuba's revolutionary economy is a drag.
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"I'm going to drag you out of here," Encinia replies.
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The increased drag will, again, bring down the satellite. e.
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A tedious succession of hearings can drag on for years.
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Additionally, you can now drag and drop photos between apps.
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Last week, the Demon's drag soundtrack prompted a fan frenzy.
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Instead, users drag and drop content through the Mighty app.
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Exports will probably continue to drag in the months ahead.
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This drag could persist into the end of the year.
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You're not overclocking the engine as much as reducing drag.
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Then I'd sigh, resigned, and drag myself to the gym.
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The case could drag on, but Toshiba needs a sale.
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Barbato says "Drag Race" has a huge global presence now.
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He is the first drag queen to get a star.
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Retail is expected to be a drag on the numbers.
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Shows like RuPaul's Drag Race and Pose popularize this movement.
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Civil lawsuits tend to drag on for months or years.
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Basic materials stocks posed the biggest drag on the benchmark.
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He pointed to blood and drag marks in the sand.
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"We're not going to drag this out," the judge said.
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The joint's known for its burgers and drag queen shows.
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In the introduction to Magnus Hastings' photo book Why Drag?
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And if not, why aren't you watching RuPaul's Drag Race?
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Those endless regular payments are a drag on your happiness.
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Even so, excess inventory may yet drag down the market.
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The main drag was Qatar National Bank falling 20.3 percent.
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I drag my body downstairs for toast and almond milk.
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She even had to drag out Al Gore, remember him!
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Drag your ROM files into the system it's associated with.
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It's what makes me drag them to my favorites folder.
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Sometimes they both are frocked like hippies in Godspell drag.
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Simply drag and drop your image into the app's window.
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Now, you can drag documents and photos across multiple apps.
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Its business could drag on well into the next decade.
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Drag the one you want onto your photo or video.
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LaWhore Vagistan is everyone's favorite South Asian drag academic auntie.
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And I know that drag is a fabulous art form.
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And demography is beginning to prove a drag on demand.
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VICE: How would you describe the feeling of doing drag?
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WATCH: Meet London's Female Drag Queens Do your characters evolve?
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Also, "Clint Eastwood in drag" is now our ideal aesthetic.
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Drag queens, on a fairly regular basis, feel your pain.
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A soaking wet track is no place to drag race.
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Drag them over to a square screen on the right.
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"It'd be really hard to drag somebody out," Musk said.
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Bubble baths are everything, and this drag queen gets it.
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Apple was the top drag on all three major indexes.
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Energy was the heaviest sector drag, with 22.7 net points.
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Falling inventories also acted as a 225 percentage point drag.
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That contest is expected to drag on into the fall.
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Note to drag queens everywhere: never wear a rainbow dress.
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The biggest drag on the index was Silver Wheaton Corp .
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China's economic woes are a definite drag on U.S. markets.
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Oil prices also acted as a drag on European stocks.
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Let's face it: Going to the dentist is a drag.
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He thinks that everyone should try drag at least once.
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You think you know New York drag inside an out?
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The reports appeared to drag Activision Blizzard lower as well.
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In the Latino American community, in drag, you do impersonations.
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I think the Chinese are trying to drag this out.
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But Boeing could remain a drag for the US economy.
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The economic drag of an aging workforce can be costly.
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But a greater speed probably means a greater drag force.
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Or the video of him groping Rudy Giuliani in drag.
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They'd drag everyone to, what was that park, Skate Street?
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Watch "Meet London's Female Drag Queens": How did you feel?
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Were you the first drag act to go out there?
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Some audits can drag on for five years or more.
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For those who watch somewhat reluctantly, it was a drag.
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The announcement helped drag all three major U.S. indexes lower.
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Why did she drag the reality television producer on Twitter?
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All the while, it was a drag on Hawley's campaign.
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Financials and healthcare were the biggest drag on the benchmark.
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Because elsewhere, man, do Naughty Dog ever drag things out.
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Weak external demand continues to be a drag on exports.
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They've done drag at my club a couple of times.
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S. trade friction could drag on Asia's fourth largest economy.
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A MOVING TRAINLong train rides can be a (literal) drag.
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They inadvertently or deliberately drag other people down with them.
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Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity.
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What do drag queens and the WWE have in common?
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One Twitter user decided to drag Crow into the debate.
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Weak utilities production could be a drag on consumer spending.
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Now, I happen to love drag queens from smaller cities.
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Can't she just have a beard in drag now anyway?
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"There's a drag that magnifies itself over time," Sluyter said.
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Milk, who competed on season 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Talks are likely to drag on through much of August.
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Drag method meta will be a huge topic of debate.
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Pelosi might well be a drag on Democrats in 2018.
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Two towering drag queens struck my name off the list.
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The stock was also the biggest drag on the Nasdaq.
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Technology stocks have been an unexpected drag on the market.
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" She added, "This is what makes 'Drag Race' so valuable.
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"RuPaul's Drag Race" is available on VH1 and Amazon Prime.
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They eventually drag the person out of the camera frame.
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He lit the cigarette and took a long drag. Exhaled.
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The glossy surface will always cause a bit of drag.
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Mackaylla Maria, Santana's drag character, started to come to life.
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All this would doubtless drag out the country's economic slump.
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The stock was the biggest drag on all three indexes.
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It's as mainstream as a show about drag can get.
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At the same time, "Drag Race" flourishes in cultlike purgatory.
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Initially, the bank was viewed by executives as a drag.
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Mr. Warren had to drag his friends out of bed.
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RuPaul's Drag Race is revving up to hit the road!
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Microsoft fell 0.6 percent, the biggest drag on the sector.
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It may seem like a drag, thinking about it now.
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Skinheads shared space uneasily with Hare Krishnas and drag queens.
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The boat tail design on the back also reduces drag.
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Consumer stocks were among the biggest drag on the benchmark.
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The stock was the biggest drag on the three indexes.
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Maybe too much familiarity is a drag on voter enthusiasm.
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Dictionary.com's word of the year is: Misinformation Drag us, Dictionary.com.
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I felt it trying to drag me into true darkness.
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Drag the destination to the place where you want it.
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Insanely, absurdly, he tried to drag it to its feet.
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We believe that this could potentially drag on for weeks.
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Utilities and industrials were the biggest drag on the benchmark.
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I would usually put one leg in and then drag
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To Balderson, Trump is a blessing, Kasich is a drag.
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Undocumented people are not a drag on the United States.
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There are moments in "My Struggle: Book Five" that drag.
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Clinton the hawk will just drag us into more wars.
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Corruption continues to drag down economic growth and investor confidence.
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Fishermen basically drag riverbeds to be able to catch them.
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S. trade war will drag on and, if anything, intensify.
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And Apple can drag this case out for a year.
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The vibe is critical, and everything feels like a drag.
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"There are pros and cons to [Drag Race]," said Myint.
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As an art form, drag doesn't always get its due.
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You can also drag and drop files between multiple apps.
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They drag themselves like old men along the path home.
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Give this girl a post Drag Race talk show already.
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Also you would be drowning, which is a major drag.
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When I'm in drag it's just an overconfident me, really.
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Desmond: I've been doing drag ever since I was two.
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That type of drag has slowly come into the forefront.
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I had almost walked away entirely when I found drag.
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Through him I met a whole community of drag queens.
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They told him they'd drag him before a military tribunal.
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Once, it's sung by a drag queen at a bar.
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"Very few people recognize me out of drag," she said.
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For five months, that became a bit of a drag.
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It also pulls away defenders trying to drag down teammates.
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Did you start playing music before you were doing drag?
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Given that impasse, the talks appear likely to drag on.
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Still, Billy's father eventually arrives to drag his son home.
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"Scare drag" was a very important aspect of that world.
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Melt into the couch or drag yourself to happy hour?
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She swapped dresses with a drag queen in Des Moines.
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"RuPaul's Drag Race" has been a hit for 22014 seasons.
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Snohetta's glass wall, in effect, dressed the shed in drag.
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"Everyone is welcome in drag," Sasha said into the mic.
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" I also spent hours on the set of "Drag Race.
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Competing with Instagram for millennial eyeballs is a royal drag.
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SANK What was New York's drag scene like back then?
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That in turn inspired what you see on Drag Race.
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This, of course, could drag out loan repayment for decades.
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Negative colleagues can be a real drag in the office.
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But the same sector could drag things down again today.
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To put it another way: Can drag survive the internet?
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The town's main drag has been renamed Andy Warhol Street.
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An act of drag suicide was broadcast on national television.
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This is why this ministry of drag is so powerful.
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And once it does, then we won't have that drag.
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For most New Yorkers, the snow was probably a drag.
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What has her experience been leading drag queen story hours?
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It would be significant drag on China's already slowing economy.
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The technology sector slipped 22.38% and was the biggest drag.
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"This decree will drag Romania back in time," she said.
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And, uh, I didn't want to drag her through this.
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Hosting the show was none other than drag diva RuPaul.
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"I'm determined to be a hairier drag queen," she says.
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They said, 'You'll have to drag us off that show.
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And that would drag congressional Democrats directly into the fight.
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That has helped drag down both economic growth and wages.
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Deliberations could drag on for months on the impeachment committee.
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And the trial will drag on and on and on.
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That slowdown has been a drag for American manufacturers, too.
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Click to enlarge or drag to your desktop to print!
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Lower commodity prices "should usually drag CAD lower," Anderson said.
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Todd Insler, told CNBC, but talks may still drag on.
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I would've been laughed off the stage on 'Drag Race.
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That volatility could drag down Constellation Brand's stock, Ramey noted.
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AMP was the second biggest drag on the main board.
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The stock was the biggest drag on the STOXX 600.
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Drag queen Aquaria appeared alongside cis women in the show.
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Nearly everyone expects the fight to drag on for months.
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"You've seen the Republican Senate drag its feet," Perez said.
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Meanwhile, foreign trade remains a significant drag on economic growth.
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Click into the image and drag your mouse to explore.
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There's never a bad time to rewatch RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Lafayette Avenue, the borough's main drag, recalls the aristocratic general.
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"In the Midwest, we do drag in churches," she said.
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As we all know, 2016 has been a total drag.
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Drag Gestures now allows you to re-create the standard drag gestures in mobile apps, maybe for building an image carousel, for example, while linked symbols make it easier to apply changes across artboards.
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Here, Scott, a photographer working on a long-term project about the drag community in Vancouver, spoke with BuzzFeed News about her sensitive approach to documenting the so-called Bratpack, a local drag group.
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As we prepare for the anniversary of the force that's transformed reality television — and added new vernacular and opportunities for drag queens and drag culture — we've found ourselves nostalgic for stars of RPDR's past.
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So it should come as no surprise to hear that the "Party in the U.S.A." singer, 93, jumped at the chance to dress in drag for Thursday's season 11 premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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For instance, you can drag and drop app files between multiple apps, drag an icon from the newly introduced dock to open a windowed app on top of your full-screen app and more.
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Alongside other key players in the burgeoning scene—queens like Horrorchata and Untitled Queen—she would help galvanize a community through which quirky, artistic drag could thrive, different than drag in the other boroughs.
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She also praised Boston drag queen Katya's impersonation of her on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, which was broadcast this past Thursday: "she nailed the feminist activist tribal volta sincerest form of flattery etc".
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One of the show's co-curators is Montgomery Perry Smith, who is both an artist and participant in Brooklyn's drag scene as Patti Spliff (yes, she performs drag send-ups of Patti Smith songs).
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Lena Waithe wore a jacket by Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss, whose back read "Black Drag Queens Invented Camp" (black drag queens like Billy Porter's character Shiniqua in the 1997 movie Twisted, perhaps).
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"Pageantry is like the college of drag," said Martin Cooper, whose drag persona Coco Montrese was crowned Miss Gay America in 2010 after that year's initial winner, Alyssa Edwards, was stripped of her crown.
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