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Woman speaks to Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board

Education

WS/FCS officials to meet with Forsyth Tech about drag performance

2:47pm April 26, 2023

Officials from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and Forsyth Technical Community College will meet to set clear expectations for high schoolers on campus on Thursday.

Athena Kills (left) and Scalene Onixxx are pictured during Drag Queen Story Hour in Riverside, Calif. The rise of family-friendly drag events has sparked a backlash among right-wing media and organizers.

National

After the Club Q shooting, drag queens say they're upping security measures

5:00am December 27, 2022

by Emily Olson

Drag has grown in visibility in recent years as a way to celebrate gender fluidity and self-expression, especially among the LGBTQ community and its allies. That's made it a target of the right wing.

Asheville's Miss Gay Latina provides mentoring and a sense of community

7:18am July 01, 2022

by Eileen Rodriguez

Elio González organized Miss Gay Latina for the first time in 2008. He has a background in event planning but had never thought of creating a pageant.

"I mean for a cross-dresser selling folk music, I was like, if I can sell that, plugging the guitars in isn't going to be that farfetched," Trixie Mattel says of her third album, Barbara.

Music & Culture

Trixie Mattel Balances Genre, History And Humor On 'Barbara'

8:04pm February 04, 2020

The drag performer and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars champion talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about her folk and country music icons and performs a song from her new album.

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Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie poses at a community space where women cook and sell meat. She started drag as an escape from oppression she felt at Stellenbosch University for being "black, Xhosa, poor, queer and effeminate." "It is through pageantry and perfo

PHOTOS: Drag Queens In South Africa Embrace Queerness And Tradition

4:41pm September 20, 2019

Even though they face discrimination, they proudly embrace their heritage in the way they dress.

Drag Queen Cloud performs at Wigstock in New York in 1994.

Arts

How Drag Queens Have Sashayed Their Way Through History

5:09pm June 27, 2019

Drag is experiencing a golden age, thanks to TV's RuPaul's Drag Race. But the tradition of drag performance has its roots as far back as Greece and has gone through a radical evolution in the U.S.

A performer who goes by Beatrix Lestrange organized and hosted the No Border Wall Protest Drag Show in Brownsville, Texas.

National

Texas 'Dragtavist' Drag Queens Stage Border Wall Protest

10:33am February 26, 2019

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

"We'll try to bring joy, positivity, beauty, drag, culture to whatever this is," Beatrix Lestrange said, pointing to the section of the border fence directly behind her.