Talk:Drag queen

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[edit] Link removal

Re: Wikipedia:External links.

Aaron, can you explain what part of the Wikipedia external link policy you were thinking of when you removed all those external links? --Icarus 07:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for opening discussion!
These all fall under Wikipedia:External_links#What_should_not_be_linked_to point two:

And this one didn't meet Wikipedia:External_links#What_should_be_linked_to:

brenneman(t)(c) 07:25, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Drag fashions

Hi, im doing a dissertation for uni. The title is "An investigation into the glamour of cross dressing and the drag influence on the future of fashion". If anyone has any comments on how they think drag styles have influenced mainsteam fashions or where they see drag fashions going in the future, etc, id be grateful of them. Thanks

What about the New Romantic movement from the 80's and Boy George who utlizied a pretty camp drag look?--Joyfulpotato 20:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] seems a bit partison

best word i could use, but anyway, the part about most performers being "Gay Men" doesn't seem right. that's like saying that most criminals are black. It may appear that way, but it isn't nessasarly true.

Are you comparing being a criminal to performing in drag?
Black people are often portrayed as criminals and criminals are often portrayed as mostly black because we live in a racist anti-black society. Are you saying that gay people are stereotyped as drag performers or that drag performers are stereotyped as gay? Hyacinth 10:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
And given that the majority of drag queens *are* gay men or transgender women, is it really partisanship, or discrimination? Marumari 22:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Pictures

couldn't we get better pictures on this page? where's dame edna, where's divine? what are all these crappy second-rate drag queens doing here? --Joyfulpotato 19:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

And "An example of poorly planned drag"? ... seriously? Ugh.


This site seems to be very Americanised. I have no problem with a good deep look at the usa drag world, but there are other centres of drag...like the UK (thats me), and removing chunks of info about the Uk and some of its most famous characters and its own take on drag, does not do this page any good. In the UK and elsewhere there are many other aspects of the dragqueen/tranny scene that many do not realise exist, there many crossovers and blurring of the edges. I worked with an artist who produced a book called 'Crossing the line', and the range of dressing up was vast i.e. Some drag queens are also transvestites, some are not, and some trannies aspire to be drag queens. I put in the link to the obituary of Burnel the transformer who won the Alternative miss world a no. of times and stood as an MP in a by-election. I hope it stays on the site to represent some from the UK.

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