History Main / DragQueen

* In ''Film/{{Dumplin}}'', while going through her Aunt Lucy's old things, Willowdean finds a flyer for a bar that does a performance of Music/DollyParton's music every week. Being a {{fangirl}} of Parton, partially thanks to Aunt Lucy, Willowdean takes two of her friends and goes to the bar... and they find out that it's a [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame gay bar]], and all the performers are drag queens. The girls end up having a great time, and the bartender introduces Willowdean to one of the queens after the show, since he was a close friend of Lucy's. The queens wind up helping the girls with the beauty pageant they've entered, such as teaching them some dance moves and fixing their hair and makeup for them. (Amusingly, when Millie's deeply religious mother asks who did such a nice job with her makeup, Millie just says, "...I'll explain later." Then Millie's mother ends up sitting next to the queens in the audience, [[OhCrap much to their collective horror]].)

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Angel Dust works as a porn star who also works as a drag queen, so he often wears feminine clothing. Being [[AttractiveBentGender very attractive]] helps him rake in customers.

Drag queens are performers who dress as oft-exaggerated caricatures of gender to entertain. While the archetypal drag queen is a man dressing as a woman, they can just as easily be transgender women, non-binary, cis women, etc. Unlike UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} women and {{Crossdresser}}s, men who are drag queens wear women's clothing only on special occasions. They are usually CampGay men who sometimes like to get that little bit more flamboyant by dressing up as a tornado that's just rushed through a mountain of candyfloss and glitter. They can get dolled up for a variety of reasons: paid entertainers, runway models, cosplayers, etc. Many a GayBar features drag queens as regular performers, though a select few have gone on to mainstream success as well.

Many cultures around the globe have a theatre tradition of crossdressing, such as the UK's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime_dame pantomime dames,]] Japan's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onnagata onnagata,]]'' and Western comedians with a female persona like Creator/BarryHumphries (Dame Edna) and Tyler Perry (Madea). However, these are usually heterosexual men performing for general audiences, whereas ''drag'' is specific to LGBT+ culture. Drag artists primarily perform at {{gay bar}}s, [[PrideParade Pride festivals]], and other queer-centric events, and many take part in community activism outside of performing.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Frankie is a drag queen in the 1950s, but stops performing by the late '60s. Real life drag king Stormé DeLarverie is a supporting character and Frankie's friend at the time.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Frankie is a drag queen in the 1950s, but stops performing by the late 60s. Real life drag king Stormé DeLarverie is a supporting character and Frankie's friend at the time.

* ''Series/BabylonBerlin'': Svetlana Sorokina performs as a Drag King singer at the Mokka Efti nightclub under the pseudonym of [[SdrawkcabAlias "Nikoros"]]. The song written for her main performance scene, "Zu Asche, Zu Staub", is the show's end credits music.

* ''WebOriginal/QueerKidStuff'' had an episode devoted to teaching children about dressing in drag, and brought one on the show as a SpecialGuest.

* '''Genderfuck Queens''' blend masculine and feminine elements to completely fuck what we know as gender. [[GirlsWithMustaches Beards]], body hair, baldness, toplessness, masculine attire with feminine makeup, and so on. Avant-garde fashion and androgyny are their game.