What's the appeal of drag queens/kgs, om a gay standpot? - Factual Qutns - Straight Dope Msage Board

Contents:

• WHAT'S THE APPEAL OF DRAG QUEENS/KGS, OM A GAY STANDPOT?
• THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC

WHAT'S THE APPEAL OF DRAG QUEENS/KGS, OM A GAY STANDPOT?

Drag queens, otherwise known as “female impersonators, " are most typilly gay cisgenr men (though there are many drag queens of varyg sexual orientatns and genr inti) who perform and enterta on stage nightclubs and bars. Although ’s unclear exactly why, drag kgs are ls mon gay muni, and are also ls visible popular culture and rearch on drag. That started to change the late 1960s and ’70s durg the sexual revolutn, when drag beme more proment wh gay male muni, and eventually, thanks part to RuPl, a part of popular culture.

Moncrieff & Lienard relay that the gay muni which drag was born serve as a backdrop due to their exclive and protected nature that was once necsary for the survival of the muni.

In the study, Moncrieff & Lienard surveyed 133 gay men along wh a ntrol group of heterosexual men and women, about their perceptns of drag queens.

THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC

It is thought that this part due to the donng of overtly feme attire and stereotypil behavrs which are seen as ls sirable tras among gay men. They also risk beg discrimated agast not only public, but also wh the gay muny. The ma takeaway om the study is the hypothis that drag performers are motivated, spe the many sts, by how signalg, or performg wh the gay muny, promot “upward mobily” and stat wh a small, protected muny.

The rearch fdgs scribed here shed some light on potential motivatg factors of those who perform drag, at least through the ey of some the gay muny. Like cisgenr people (people who do intify wh the genr they were assigned at birth), transgenr people n be straight, gay or bisexual.

Drag is most monly associated wh gay men drsg up and embodyg a “larger-than-life” female persona.