Years active
2020
Stage Name(s)
Kings of the World
Category
Drag Kings
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
April 22 – July 17, 2020
Bio
In 2020, the world relied on the internet to connect with one another to create community due to Covid-19. The ever-resourceful drag community developed digital drag shows on multiple platforms […]
Drag kings work as hard as queens. Why do they make less?
Beau Jangles, […]
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Drag queens and kings have a long and rich history, but right now, we’re in the midst of a drag renaissance. Queens in particular — thanks largely to the popularity of Ru […]
The blurring of gender boundaries has allowed for more freedom in online pageants — and soon, it’s hoped, back in the clubs.
Years active
1996-Present
Stage Name(s)
Ken Vegas
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1973 –
Bio
Ken Vegas has been blending gender on stages from D.C.’s own Chaos nightclub to venues across North America, UK, and Sweden. As the organizing forces behind the D.C. Kings, he helped shape Washington into one of […]
Years active
1995 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Mo B. Dick
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1965 –
Bio
Drag King Legend Mo B. Dick is cited as one of the founding fathers of the modern-day drag king movement. Starting in November 1995 in New York City, Mo B. Dick pioneered many […]
Years active
1995 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Fudgie Frottage, Lu Read, Byrd Turgler, Rusty Scrotum
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1955 –
Bio
If Howard Stern is the self-proclaimed King of All Media, then there is no dispute, Fudgie Frottage, best known as the creator, producer, promoter, and performer for the […]
Years active
1995 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Flare, Flarington King, Drag King Flare
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
Canada
Birth – Death
1974 –
Bio
Drag King Flare is an international drag king performer, producer, and documentarian. Flare’s first performance was November 25,1995 at a drag competition in the northern Canadian town of Thunder Bay. […]
Years active
1995 – 2012
Stage Name(s)
Dred
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1971 – 2019
Bio
Haitian-American Drag King Dred was one of the most prominent Drag Kings to emerge from the dynamic drag scene of New York City during the late 1990’s. Dred embodied the term “gender bender” long […]
Years active
1993 – Present
Stage Name(s)
The Fishvestites 1993 – 1995
Jenda 1996 – 1998
Sexy Galexy 1998 – current
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
Australia
Birth – Death
1972 –
Bio
The Original Glamourboi Sexy Galexy is Glitz, Glam, Masc and Fem, a Get Down Boogie man, all wrapped up in a disco-loving, muscle-flexing, more-of-a-woman-when-he’s-a-man, […]
Years active
1990 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Bridge Markland
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
Germany
Birth – Death
1961 –
Bio
The Berlin performer Bridge Markland is a virtuoso of role play and transformation. An artist who crosses boundaries between dance, theatre, drag + gender performance, cabaret + puppet theatre. Since 1985 she has been […]
Years active
1988 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Elvis Herselvis, Leigh Crow
Category
Male Impersonator, Drag King
Country of Origin
United States
Birth – Death
July 16, 1965 –
Bio
Leigh Crow is a gender-bending cabaret singer who gained notoriety as the world’s first female Elvis Impersonator, Elvis Herselvis. Her 30-year performance career includes Drag shows, independent […]
Years active
1988 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Shelly Mars
Category
Drag King
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1960 – Present
Bio
Shelly Mars is a multimedia performance artist, actor, printmaker and drag king whose work explores sexuality and power using an expanding catalog of created personae. An originator of 1980s – ‘90s queer […]
Years active
1984 – 1997
Stage Name(s)
Johnny Science, John Grant, Johnny Armstrong, Daniel Austen
Category
Drag King Make-Up Artist
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1955 – 2007
Bio
Johnny Science was a musician, make-up artist, and LGBT community leader thriving in New York City. He is credited as the person who fostered masculine […]
Years active
1982 – 2015
Stage Name(s)
Diane Torr, Danny King, Jack Sprat, Hamish McAllister, Charles Beresford, Mr. EE
Category
Drag King, Male Impersonator
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Birth – Death
1948 – 2017
Bio
Diane Torr was a Drag King pioneer, gender activist and performance art provocateur who blazed […]
Years active
1978 – Present
Stage Name(s)
Crema, the Phoenix
Category
Male Impersonator, Drag King
Country of Origin
Canada
Birth – Death
1955 – Present
Bio
Crema’s first drag performance was as a male impersonator at a a gay show bar called B.J.’s Club in Vancouver Canada in 1978. From an interview between Clare Smyth (Drag […]
Years active
1965 – Present
Stage Name(s)
El Daña, Elsie Saldaña
Category
Country of Origin
USA
Birth – Death
1944 –
Bio
El Daña is a Mexican-American male impersonator from Fresno, California who’s been performing since […]