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 […]