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    his gig as an Elvis impersonator.” (Arden Theatre PlayBill) This quote from the Arden’s PlayBill perfectly expresses the adventure and change Casey experiences to become a drag queen. Throughout the play the character of Casey is brought into a new world and lifestyle. From beginning to end, he completely alters his idea of the drag…

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    Big Gay Xmas Party

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    reminded me of the “The Drag Queen and the Mummy” reading, where Dorian Corey stated “When I grew up, of course, you know, black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Home. Everybody wanted to look like Marilyn Monroe." (Conlon, p.138) What I witnessed did not remind me of this quote because it was an example of it, but because it was the opposite, but in a negative way. While Ball culture and Drag culture are different, people would attend Balls in drag, and drag contests are…

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    There have been many research studies on the topic of LGBT characters in media, but I decided to make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I…

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    athlete. For instance, Matt Hagan was the 2011 and 2014 NHRA Funny Car World Champion. Funny Car is a specific racing class for dragsters. The cars that race in this class have fiberglass bodies and custom chassis. Matt Hagan is an athlete because drag racing is not something anyone can start overnight and he is always equipping new equipment. With any sport an athlete cannot start on the top. Growing up, the term “practice makes perfect” always seems to come up. Today, ask any professional…

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    intersectionality. One major example of intersectionality displayed would be Lola as she was a drag queen as well as African American. Both of these identities found in Lola shaped her life and how she was treated. When Charlie brought Lola into his factory, he took her in the back way to hide her from the rest of the workers. Charlie did not know how him employees would react to the fact that a drag queen was in his factory and tried to avoid interaction. This was not a great start to the…

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    Munsky Boots

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    factory after the passing of his father. His factory starts to go out of business, and Charlie and his employees aren’t making enough money. After accidentally meeting a drag queen, Lola, (Kyle Taylor Parker) Charlie comes up with an amazing plan to start making and selling boots for crossdressers. Lola, alongside with her chorus of drag queens, (Alex DeLeo, Dan Domenech, David Lopez, Stewart Adam McKensy, Geoff Stevens, and Jesse Weafer) design the boots for Charlie and his employees to make.…

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    Priscilla queen of the desert is a musical about the journey of two drag queens and a transgender woman on their way to a drag performance from Downtown Australia to Alice Springs, Australia on a pink glittery bus. Throughout their journey, the three encounter many strange people, places and situations, which they handle with a comedic grace. The performance given by all the actors and actresses in Priscilla Queen of the desert were outstanding. The energy the characters had on a calm Sunday…

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    Drag Queen Gender Roles

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    I struggle to understand why anyone would go and see a drag queen play a leading lady in musical theatre.” (Barnes, 2015. 119) The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the portrayal of drag queens within musical theatre and how, if any, societies perceptions have changed over the last 40 plus years. This research will be revised between 1970 to the present day, which will include case studies from three major plays/films and one television show. Those being discussed will include, The…

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    The Stonewall Riots

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    movie’s cast is almost entirely Caucasian with a few token minorities thrown in it for. “representation”. However, Stonewall was a movement made of mostly people of colour with a large variety of looks and body types. They were the people of colour, the drag queens, the transgendered women, and the lesbians. Yet the movie presents the rioters as if there were barely any of them out there. The movie also removed or sidelined some of the most notable people of colour in the movement. For example,…

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    Drag Racing Research Paper

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    The year 2004, in Caneville, Oregon, The Caneville Control of Illegal Racing Clubs Ordinance passed by a unanimous vote in order to correct the deadly problem of drag races. Drag racing is a type of motorcar racing where, 2 or more participants test how fast their cars can go in comparison to each other. This type of racing has become a serious issue within the past few years, even resulting in three deaths and plenty of minor injuries in Caneville. On the night of May 21, 2005, Dana Kendall,…

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