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Will Drag Performances Get Banned in Your State?

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone May 30, 2023May 31, 2023

Here’s a list of states considering legislation that would criminalize or limit the work of drag artists.

Posted inArt

AI Portraits of Republicans in Drag to Get You Through the Week

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

“RuPublicans” responds to harmful anti-drag legislation in true queen fashion.

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Tennessee Bans Drag Performances for Children

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

The state has just passed a bill criminalizing public drag performances as well as private shows if a minor could be present.

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Alt-Right Protesters Brandish Nazi Flag at Florida Drag Event

Avatar photo by Billie Anania December 7, 2022April 17, 2023

Members of NatSoc Florida performed the Nazi salute and chanted “Heil Hitler” at a local LGBTQ+ charity’s fundraiser in Lakeland.

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Museum Cancels Drag Show After Armed Protesters Show Up

Avatar photo by Billie Anania September 27, 2022April 17, 2023

Members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys joined a group of religious parents gathered outside Memphis’s Museum of Science & History.

Posted inFilm

Classic Films About Drag Pageants and Ball Culture Return to Theaters to Dazzle Again

by Caden Mark Gardner June 17, 2019November 4, 2019

The landmark queer documentaries The Queen and Paris is Burning have been restored and are back in theaters.

Posted inFilm

A Century’s Worth of Movies About Cross-Dressing and Drag

by Patty Gone June 16, 2017June 16, 2017

The series Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen at the Anthology Film Archives highlights drag’s ubiquity across time, place, and social milieu.

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Drag Ballerinas Spin Gender Roles into Farce

by Daniel Larkin December 21, 2016

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.

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Queering the Canon of American Popular Music

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers October 3, 2016

This is not your grandmother’s drag show. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by renowned playwright and drag performer Taylor Mac is a monumental production covering American popular music from 1776 to 2016.

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The Nutty Squirrel That Dressed in Drag

by Daniel Larkin April 8, 2015April 12, 2015

“You can’t be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit,” Sarah Jessica Parker once quipped. Obviously she had never encountered Tommy Tucker.

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An Artist-Turned-Drag Queen Reigns in Berlin

by Stephen Truax September 18, 2014September 18, 2014

BERLIN — Fellas, I wanna know if I could talk to ya for just a minute. … Is it okay?

The sultry voice cut through the din of hundreds of people. Chandelier Divine Brown’s lip-synch performance of the 1990s a cappella “Work This Pussy,” by American transgender vocalist Sweet Pussy Pauline, sent the crowd into a frenzy.

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Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface

by Daniel Larkin June 13, 2014June 16, 2014

In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like “Self-Portrait in Drag” (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.

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UC Davis Arts and Humanities Grads Take Center Stage in Wide-Ranging Show
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UC Davis Arts and Humanities Grads Take Center Stage in Wide-Ranging Show

Featuring projects by 30 graduate students, this multidisciplinary exhibition is on view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 25.

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