Drag queen, a man who drs women’s cloth and performs before an dience. Drag shows (typilly staged nightclubs and Gay Pri ftivals) are largely a subcultural phenomenon. Though drag has never enjoyed mastream appeal, drag queen is a mon enough term popular culture, partly
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THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
* are drag queens all gay *
All drag queens are 's te that the majory of drag queens are gay, but there is a small mory of queens who are straight. Explag their choice, host RuPl said, “From the early days of the gay liberatn movement, to the AIDS crisis, to today, our queer sisters have always shown up when the LGBTQ muny need them the most.
Yet, they still only prent a few kernels of tertg week, that me om the queens—all gay men—chattg wh their lbian fay about the plited subject of reclaimg certa slurs.
”Then, Amanda posed an tertg qutn, which remas a hot-button issue wh queer circl (and the Drag Race fandom self): “Do you guys thk that lbians n say ‘fag’ and that gay guys n say ‘dyke, ’ or that should only be kept wh those groups to say? ” Kandy Me mentned that her own mother is a butch lbian, whom she refers to as a dyke, but also pletely unrstands why lbians would not want a gay man to say . The gay experience and the lbian experience—though trsilly lked by queerns—are herently different.