drag queen

noun

plural drag queens

: a person and especially a man who performs as an entertainer in usually female drag (see drag entry 3 sense 2a)

Drag queens, who are traditionally male, dress in "drag" as female characters.—

Laura Wavra

For the past decade, (basically since RuPaul started Drag Race) traditional drag queens (ie, cis men performing as female characters) have been blowing up in the popular zeitgeist …—

Brittany Knupper

Drag is not simply female impersonation, but involves drag queens exaggerating femininity and drag kings exaggerating masculinity.—

Shannon Kelly

[Victoria] Sin is a female-bodied non-binary drag queen, examining how Western ideals of femininity are produced and consumed.—

Amrou Al-Kadhi

They are a black, non-binary drag queen with a beard in a part of the country that has a reputation for being anti-LGBTQ+.—

Bailey Shelton

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And the drag queen dance party that took over her time slot – which included RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Yvie Oddly and NYC queen Beaujangles – turned an otherwise rainy, dreary day into an unfettered explosion of LGBTQ joy. —

Joe Lynch, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024 Recent investments include Tina Romero’s drag queen zombie slasher Queens Of The Dead, BBC Film’s coming-of-age drama Never Seen The Sea as well as Get Away and The Bayou. —

Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024 To the dismay of many here, Martin helped organize a Black Lives Matter protest and welcomed drag queens to town for an HBO series. —

Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024 Ving Rhames plays against type as Holiday Heart, a gay drag queen who forges a bond with a single mother (Alfre Woodard) and her young daughter (Jesika Reynolds). —

Cydney Lee and Kevin Jacobsen Published, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drag queen