I know a few (we are NOT discussing trannies, just men in heels, dresses, makeup and wigs that perform in gay bars) and all of the ones I know are batshit crazy, changing boyfriends every 3 months, substance abuse issues, narcissistic, or thieves. There’s one in my town that singles out guys watching her show if they don’t give her a dollar. Really insulting them and shaming them. Tips should be at your discretion.
Are ALL drag queens seriously flawed, dramatic messes?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 13, 2019 7:03 PM |
try working in legit theater, honey. TONS and TONS of hot messes there
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 12, 2019 5:44 PM |
I used to be mesmerized as a gayling by drag queens, but now that I’ve gotten to know some, I know they’re crazy. Maybe it’s because they have cultivated no job skills and once they got 30, they have to start over.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 12, 2019 5:44 PM |
I do enjoy Bianca del Rio, but I don’t know what he’s like in real lifeZ
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 12, 2019 5:47 PM |
I can't stand them. When they try to talk to me in a gay bar I smile and walk away. They seem to think they're brilliant and most of the time they're just obnoxious, except for Lypsinka.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 12, 2019 5:48 PM |
Never appreciated the art.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 12, 2019 5:48 PM |
Alyssa Edwards is funny too, but but ugly as a boy.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 12, 2019 5:49 PM |
Which one was in the movie “Trick?” Her I liked.....she was a caustic cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 12, 2019 5:49 PM |
I’ve never known anyone who is a drag queen. How do you encounter them?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 12, 2019 5:53 PM |
Coco Peru, R7.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 12, 2019 5:55 PM |
I like the funny, witty ones with goofy names (Summer Eve la Douche, etc.). I think they should be bitchy clowns, lampooning the garish way women paint, fry, dye, and puff themselves up for male acceptance.
But the ones who just want to look like glamorous women are boring. After the initial, "Hey, yeah, very real" there's nothing left.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 12, 2019 5:55 PM |
R8 You kinda need to leave the house at some point.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 12, 2019 5:55 PM |
The house where? Most places don’t have drag queens all Over the place
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 12, 2019 5:59 PM |
I agree with r1 performers are for the most part seriously fucked up people.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 12, 2019 6:01 PM |
Never liked them.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 12, 2019 6:04 PM |
I stumbled upon the show "Dragcula" on Netflix the other night and on a whim watched an episode. Mind you, I have never watched Drag Race or any other kind of show like that before. Every single person on that show frightened me because they all reeked of mental illness and narricisstic personality disorder. All of them were hot messes with a overbearing need to suck the air out of any room. I didn't get the impression that it was for comic effect because they were filming either. I kept wondering what they were like in real life outside of drag and all I could think was...yikes.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 12, 2019 6:34 PM |
Lady Bunny is a peach.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 12, 2019 6:35 PM |
R15 To be fair, the producers of all reality TV shows select for people with personality disorders.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 12, 2019 8:17 PM |
The cuntier the drag queen the better as far as I’m concerned. It’s performance art. I don’t like this watering down of drag now that it’s become more mainstream. Give me drama, chaos and absolute filth! x
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 12, 2019 8:33 PM |
Yes Rhoda!! I like a Devine type of drag queen......eat some dog shit and be filthy. If you do that kinda shit, I’ll give you a dollar
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 12, 2019 8:35 PM |
The drag queens in Indy were constantly in and out of jail for drugs and shoplifting.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 12, 2019 8:36 PM |
R4-this is precisely how I feel about David Sedaris. He's such a bitter, malicious, condescending queen. He mocks everything and tries to pass it off as clever, and really, it's just mean-spirited.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 12, 2019 8:38 PM |
I love Coco Peru and Varla Jean Merman. I think they have actual talent and are very funny, but what's with the ones who just lip-sync to Lady Gaga songs and call that talent. I'm sorry, but that's not a talent. If they actually used their own voices, I'd be way more impressed like Jim Bailey who used to do impressions of all the big divas of the time, but he'd actually impersonate their singing voices as well (and quite well I might add).
Is Charles Busch considered a drag queen? I love him, too. Very sharp, funny writer.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 12, 2019 8:45 PM |
In the 90s, I could buy coke from any drag queen in town.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 13, 2019 12:54 AM |
A lot of the modern drag queens who grew up on social media and the internet are just so fucking tedious, they act so serious like their drag is going to change the world or something, well, it's not, get that stick out your arseholes and lighten up.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 13, 2019 1:18 AM |
they're so a-dime-a-dozen.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 13, 2019 1:47 AM |
I love Peaches Christ
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 13, 2019 4:41 AM |
Remember Shirley Q. Liquor?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 13, 2019 4:51 AM |
The Coyle Twins are not messed up, at least not overwhelmingly so.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 13, 2019 5:06 AM |
[quote]Lady Bunny is a peach.
Lady Bunny is a crazed Bernloon!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 13, 2019 5:33 AM |
The fucking face on that thing in OP turns my stomach!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 13, 2019 5:58 AM |
Performers tend to be neurotic messes (not all; many) and drag queens are just larger than life performers so...yeah, you can really ratchet up the lunacy with many of them (not all).
R15 It wasn't your imagination. Dragula tends to cast the dregs of drag world. I've known/know the back story on a few and they tend to be a fuckin' disaster zone.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 13, 2019 7:06 AM |
OP, I don't know any in real life, although I can tell you I have been acquainted with Manila Luzon, and she was a bit ornery.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 13, 2019 7:09 AM |
Dragula is just an all round crap-fest. The recent one where they let in that non-binary chick who seemed to be having an identity crisis of some sort, and went on a tirade about the word "fish" was annoying as hell, even worse than that idiot who wouldn't stop going on about how straight he was in S2.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 13, 2019 3:49 PM |
I’d love to see an article profiling life-long drag queens once they reach 60 years old. Are they in a trailer in Alabama?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 13, 2019 4:44 PM |
[QUOTE]Are ALL drag queens seriously flawed, dramatic messes?
Well, I have no use for them.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 13, 2019 7:03 PM |