I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it
To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”
Even more 🙂 If you dont see visually interesting and amazing drag kings on your feed you are not paying enough attention, go and find them! Here’s some that I know!
Showponii (from brooklyn, femgay drag king and AMAZING performer!)
KLONDYKE! One of the most amazing performance artists i’ve ever had the pleasure of watching
ZANAX ! Philly and NYC, some of the coolest visuals in drag right now
And that’s that follow more kings on insta thats where the drags all post for event promotion :-))
I’m adding onto this post to give you THROB ZOMBIE, the Horror Himbo ™, aka my hometown intro to drag. He’s pretty big now after coming in 2nd on the Dragula show, but even his early stuff was so creative and weird and interesting (and a big part of my gender coming-out process lol)
amhrancas 