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King Molasses, Washington DC-based drag king

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Artist links: LinkTree, website, Instagram

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VENUS BOYZ (2002) dir. Gabrielle Baur A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey. Multiple drag kings are interviewed about their motivations for doing drag, their identities, their medical transitions, and their understandings of gender. Interviewees include cis women, trans men, and non-binary people, including an intersex non-binary person who is transitioning on testosterone and doesn't mind being read as a man. (link in title)

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BJ Stroker, Ottawa, Ontario-based drag king

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Artist links: LinkTree, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube

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Gabriel Drag King: Mexico-based drag king

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Artist links: LinkTree, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube

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So I recently got a binder for drag purposes and I know you're not supposed to wear them for too long or it'll hurt your nips, so I'd like to know, would wearing something underneath help protect them, like a cloth or a cupless bra? Thanks in advance! :)

Thanks for reaching out, but I'm not super knowledgeable about this!

Here's a couple safe binding resources:

Binding 101: Tips to Bind Your Chest Safely | Point of Pride

Binding can be a powerful way to feel more at home in your body. The most important thing is to do it safely.

Here are some tips and hints for binding and packing. Trans or NB People present themselves in different ways, and sometimes people use clot

Personally for drag I bind with "breast tape" or with Trans Tape (obligatory: never tape with rigid bandages or tapes) and to protect the nips from that I wear non-adhesive silicone covers. Best of luck and happy kinging! I definitely recommend reading + asking around some more.

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ToeKING 666, Denver, Colorado-based drag king

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Artist links: LinkTree, Facebook, Instagram

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Hii so I'm a drag king based in Toronto (@kingwilltopower on instagram) and I'm hosting a tumblr themed show in June. I don't have many followers who are fans of drag (tbh I suspect a lot of my followers are inactive at this point), and I really admire everything you do for drag kings using your platform, so I was wondering if it would be possible for you to share my poster that I posted recently here? No worries if not I'm also promoting on instagram and expect a decent turnout but I was hoping to spread the word on tumblr as well due to the theme!

Sounds fun! Toronto-based folks: check this out!

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Drag story time TV show: Mr. Hugo’s Little Library

Drag king Hugo Grrrl plays eccentric librarian Mr. Hugo as he hosts a new children’s TV show on the free streaming platform TVNZ OnDemand. It’s available to watch here:

“I hope it does some good. I hope it reaches whoever may need it.” — Hugo Grrrl

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Tags that Tumblr thinks are similar to "drag kings." Most of these make sense. I do, however, have some questions about one...

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Syren Screams, Kansas City-based drag king

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Artist links: Instagram

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Hello I'm new here, local to the boston king scene, wanted to request some of the delights i've seen recently! 1- Logan Liqueur, Texaaas? Has a Hockey rivals act that WILL explode tumblr right now. Also as Wolverine. 2- Rusty Hammer, boston. (Check out the digital replay of his show Mantasia if you can!) 3- more Throb Zombie, i love him. (Had costumes etc featured in an art gallery show w/Rusty Hammer recently, might be some cool photos online from that?)

Welcome to the blog! 💙 👑

I love these iconic kings! I encourage everyone to check them out. Logan Liqueur I covered here

Rusty Hammer. Bonus: his and Throb Zombie’s art gallery show was called “SHOWMANSHIP: Costuming Masculinity from Man to Monster” at Boston’s Artisans Asylum. Hammer has showcased a lot more of his elevated menswear costuming on IG since I made a post about him forever ago; he even has an online class about it! Check him and his latest work out!

Throb Zombie. See also: gifset, gifset, performance video :^)

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Clit Eatswood, Las Vegas-based drag anomaly/king

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Artist links: Instagram

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Manny Nuff, Columbus, Ohio-based drag king

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Artist links: Instagram

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Erik Sjon, Oslo, Norway-based drag king

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Artist links: Instagram

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Smash the King, New York City-based drag king

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Artist links: LinkTree, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

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Mildred Gerestant aka Light Ning best known by the stage name Dred was a Haitian-American Drag King and one of the most prominent Drag King performers to emerge out of the lively New York City scene in the late 1990’s. Dred was active in the scene from 1995-2012, and unfortunately passed away in 2019. Dred embraced the term “gender bender” long before its cultural prominence, and is a true trailblazing queer and gender non confirming icon.

The success of Gerestant's performances are a testament to the amount of time and energy that she puts into them, and other kings are quick to recognize that she is one of the hardest workers among them. Her act is all lip-synched, she says, just for now, until she is ready to begin singing. But while the lip-synch is nearly always dead-on accurate, it is the way Dréd moves that makes him so convincingly male. His hands and arms, aggressively outstretched, claim the space around him, pulling it closer, owning it completely. He may rely for emphasis upon stock moves and expressions found in hip-hop music videos, but the core of his masculinity runs up his spine and through his face. His body posture is heavy and thick, one foot forward, aggressively leaning; his facial expression -- eyebrows furrowed, the self-assured glare, the snarling lips; these are the qualities that buy him currency as a man.

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I was curious where the text was from and found some extra info for those interested! The text is from LW Hasten's 1999 master's thesis on NYC drag kings, "Gender Pretenders: a drag king ethnography". You can find it on Hasten's website here:

Here you can read about Hasten's research and impressions of the NYC drag king scene, including interviews with drag kings Dred, Mo B. Dick, Murray Hill, Shane, Willy Ryder, The German Gigolo, Macha, Martin, and Danny King.

You can also see footage from these interviews as well as from these drag kings' performances here:

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Jean Sequins, Boston-based drag king

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Artist links: Instagram