A Christmas Wonderland Drag Analysis

I recently attended A Christmas Wonderland, a drag show made up of some of RuPaul’s most talent drag queens such as; Roxxxy Andrews, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Naomi Smalls and many others. This was unlike any drag show I had been to before because instead of being in a small bar with limited seating and dingy lighting, it was in a real performance hall where the Nutcracker was being performed the following week. The first thing I immediately noticed was just how many different kinds of people there were that came to see the show. To me, the idea of drag falls closely into gender fuck. These 6 foot tall men dress up in elaborate gowns, incredible make up and look absolutely gorgeous --- I mean seriously, drop dead gorgeous. In my own mind I see that kind of performance as a deviance from the norm, outside of the gender binary that is set up for ourselves. I figured a lot of people there would also be gender nonconforming or some sort of …show more content…
Even those names imply that if you are a comedy queen, you are not a beauty queen. Beauty queens are drag queens who put emphasis on their wardrobe and makeup to make them look like a beautiful woman with grace and talent. Comedy queens do big and ridiculous makeup and have larger than life personalities. Obviously these are both stereotypes of these types of queens, but basically if you are anything outside of a beauty queen (goth queen, punk queen, etc.) you are considered a “comedy queen”. On RuPaul’s actual show there a scene where a beauty queen and a comedy queen are fighting and the comedy queen says “You’re just a tired ass show girl” and the beauty queen replies “At least I am an actually pretty girl, go back to Party City where you belong”. I thought this rhetoric would stay here between these two queens and maybe a few other on the show, but would end on the show (maybe it’s just done for the publicity of the