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===Drag kings=== | ===Drag kings=== | ||
[[Image:kingsporch.jpg|thumb|All The Kings Men—a drag king performance troupe from Boston]] | [[Image:kingsporch.jpg|thumb|All The Kings Men—a drag king performance troupe from Boston]] | ||
'''Drag kings''' are performance artists, typically cisgender women, who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.<ref name="Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff">{{cite web |last=Aronoff |first=Jen |title=Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff: With some spit and polish, women perform in growing world of cross-dressing pageantry |publisher= | '''Drag kings''' are performance artists, typically cisgender women, who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.<ref name="Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff">{{cite web |last=Aronoff |first=Jen |title=Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff: With some spit and polish, women perform in growing world of cross-dressing pageantry |publisher=The University of South Carolina Daily Gamecock |date=2005-10-19 |url=http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2005/10/19/TheMix/Competitive.Drag.Kings.Strut.Stuff-1025370.shtml |accessdate=2007-07-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016152029/http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2005/10/19/TheMix/Competitive.Drag.Kings.Strut.Stuff-1025370.shtml |archivedate=2007-10-16 |df= }}</ref> They may be lesbian, bisexual, transgender, [[genderqueer]], or otherwise part of the [[LGBT]] community. They may also be straight. A typical drag show may incorporate dancing, acting, stand-up comedy, and singing, either live or lip-synching to pre-recorded tracks.<ref name="Drag King Contest by Dujour">{{cite web |last=Dujour |first=Dick |title=Drag King Contest |publisher=San Francisco Bay Times |date=2006-08-24 |url=http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=5448 |accessdate=2007-07-29}}</ref> Drag kings often perform as exaggeratedly [[Machismo|macho]] male characters,<ref name="Best of Sacramento - Drag King: Buck Naked">{{cite web |last=Beckner |first=Chrisanne |title=Best of Sacramento - Drag King: Buck Naked |publisher=Sacramento News & Review |date=2005-09-29 |url=http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=44107 |accessdate=2007-07-29}}</ref> portray marginalized masculinities such as construction workers, rappers, or they will impersonate male celebrities like Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Tim McGraw.<ref name="Bring Out the Kings!">{{cite web |last=Long |first=Cris |title=Bring Out the Kings!: Gage Gatlyn |publisher=Out Impact |date=2007-07-22 |url=http://www.outimpact.com/foldeddollarbillsready/dragkings/gagegatlyn.html |accessdate=2007-07-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120809/http://www.outimpact.com/foldeddollarbillsready/dragkings/gagegatlyn.html |archivedate=2007-09-29 |df= }}</ref> | ||
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several drag kings became British music hall stars, and British pantomime has preserved the tradition of women performing in male roles. Starting in the mid-1990s, drag kings started to gain some of the fame and attention that drag queens have known.<ref name="GAGE FOR YOURSELF">{{cite web |title=Gage For Yourself |publisher=Watermark Online |date=2005-09-22 |issue=#1219 |url=http://www.watermarkonline.com/content.php?cid=313 |accessdate=2007-07-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824144740/http://www.watermarkonline.com/content.php?cid=313 |archivedate=2007-08-24 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Inside Sydney's drag king culture">{{cite web | In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several drag kings became British music hall stars, and British pantomime has preserved the tradition of women performing in male roles. Starting in the mid-1990s, drag kings started to gain some of the fame and attention that drag queens have known.<ref name="GAGE FOR YOURSELF">{{cite web |title=Gage For Yourself |publisher=Watermark Online |date=2005-09-22 |issue=#1219 |url=http://www.watermarkonline.com/content.php?cid=313 |accessdate=2007-07-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824144740/http://www.watermarkonline.com/content.php?cid=313 |archivedate=2007-08-24 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Inside Sydney's drag king culture">{{cite web | ||