In the tiny basement locker room of a small club in New York\'s East Village, the 28-year-old Stacey Whitmire is ready to take the stage.
She has everything she needs to transform herself into another self, Johnny Carter: his trademark is 70 s denim and leather patchwork bell --bottomed suit;
She will use his lamb chops to cut off the recently cut hair;
Of course, this package-
A small soft \"soft\" similar to a loose penis.
To be honest, Whitmore\'s gentleness-
Covered with a thin layer of fluff and lintis pretty sad-looking.
But in any case, she will still use it, because you have to carry something with you when you are a mop King.
\"I used to use a sock cock,\" she said . \".
\"But I got the softest last year and it was interesting to have this realism in my pants.
\"Whitmire\'s Johnny Kat is the opening show for Kingdom coming, a tour that will take up five of the best teams in North America --
There are well-known tugs in the southern and central western parts of the United States.
Three weeks, King. -
Carlos Las Vegas, Ken Las Vegas, Christopher, Brett and Pat Riachy-
Will walks around Winnebago and performs in places like Miss Jackson.
And Chattanooga, Tennessee.
They will be followed by a film crew.
Director Sonia Slutsky and producer Nigel Noble (
The team behind the sad portrait on the New York Times television)
Is filming a documentary called on the road with Kings, which aired this fall or winter on Discovery Health Channel.
This is the latest chapter in the mainstream of drag king.
Since the beginning of the 80 th century, Jinning has flourished in the queer underground of New York and San Francisco.
But unlike the drag queen who had the golden moment 10 years ago due to the movie \"wistok\", \"Desert Queen Priscilla\'s adventure\" and \"Huang Fu\", thank you for everything, \"The King is still on the edge.
Still, they have been crawling on the edge of public awareness for the past few years: John Waters plays Brooklyn\'s garbage star, Mo B.
Dick in \"Pecker\" and \"Sex and the City\" wore a suit and moustache and took intense photos with a famous tug-of-war photographer.
In a small and surprising city like Louis, Kentucky, the tugking performing troupe appears in the gay community.
And Roanoke of Va.
\"On the road with the King\" is not the only upcoming documentary about dragging the King: \"The Venus boy\", a film released in Europe last spring, new York King dediane Thor and Mo B. Dick;
It will be released in New York on August.
If the king is nervous about acting and being filmed, they will not show it.
There are a variety of activities in the dressing room, with a variety of makeup bags and exquisite costumes: tassels, sequins, and fetishes.
Now, most Kings have done so for five, six and seven years;
It is second nature to wear clothes.
\"Johnny looks hot tonight!
Whitmire said in a complete-
Long Mirror, comb her short red hair into a Pengpeng.
A line has been formed outside the club, but the king will not rush;
Transformation is an art that takes time.
In addition, credibility is the key.
Women need more than clothes to be men.
To drag, you have to handle the drag-
Basic elements of the King: beard, chest and drum kit.
You need to do your hair, but the beard is too high. maintenance;
Most kings have a moustache, a soul patch, a belt, or a goat beard. (
Everything is out of date without hope, but still so. )
After outlining the design with eyeliner, fill the shape with mental gum (a glue-
Like a substance that does not hurt the skin)
, And be careful to paste the clippings you cut off from scratch into the shape of the beard.
The Side corner and chest hair repeat the process.
Eye shadow shadows look beautiful at 5 if you like.
If you don\'t have a natural little breast, you need to use the extra-
Tight sports bra or wrap chest with ace bandage, Saran wrap or tape.
Then there is the packing Time: Nestlé loose more than a piece of tape-
Between two men\'s underpants or under the athlete\'s belt, a sock or condom filled with bird seeds.
Put on some loose clothes, secure and smooth your hair, broaden your stance, or gently handle your crotch to protect your new package.
There, you have it: Instant People.
The king said that dragging Jinning is not only a male imitation;
The performance is male temperament
There is a difference.
\"Drag the King to make the way of masculinity clear ---
Just like the feminine temperament. -
It\'s a theatrical performance, \"says Judith Halberstam, an English professor at the University of California.
San Diego and author of the two drag
Wang Jingjin: \"Manly woman\" and \"mop King Book\".
\"Drama, of course: once the show begins, the King\'s complicated and often explicit explanation of masculinity begins with the funky martini --
Playboy lovers dress gay men as close-fitting Catholic priests.
If there\'s a change in the dressing room-
From \"female\" to \"male \"---
Another took place on stage, when the King pushed st from stupid dykes in the background to a vibrant, sexy entertainer.
One by one, the performer comes on stage: baby-
In the face of Ken Las Vegas (
Who is no longer with the group)
Beautiful Prince, the channel Prince of the tortured ballad, wearing a purple and black smoking jacket, playing a miniature diamond piano and inserting his pelvis with provocation;
Christopher in \"Berlin\" by David Bowie, the whole body is flat abs and fluffy hair
The irony of male privilege and the praise of gay friendship, \"The Boys Keep Swinging\", wobbling on stage, from suits to scout uniforms to leather vests and black underpants.
When Pat Riachi took part in the final act of the show, the audience was completely opened to cheer and cheer for the performers.
Pat\'s last act pushed them to the edge: he appeared on stage in a brown robe, holding the Bible, as a Catholic priest.
Carlos Las Vegas, dressed in a white robe, is his devout altar boy.
When George Michael\'s \"father Image\" began, Pat and Carlos stole forbidden eyes from each other on their theological texts.
Then Carlos found Pat\'s hidden gay porn, and they finally took off their robes and exposed their leather covers;
It became a scene of S/M, with Pat at the top of Carlos.
The lyrics \"I will be your dad\" are very apt. Turn-
Yes, but not that comfortable.
\"Basically, I\'m trying to convey some political messages that are combined with humor and sensuality that are set to be music in the early 80 s, \"another self of 30-year-old Amy Neville Pat a freelance consultant and website tester from New York.
\"This is my bag.
\"Discussing the meaning of dragging kinging can quickly become a virtual Gender Research 101 course, and many people are talking about\" safe space \"and\" gender --
Fucking \"talk.
\"It\'s a feminist statement that steals, laughs and overstates the privileges of men at the same time.
This is an imitation of the way our culture still believes that masculinity is absolutely right.
\"I think Pat is a person who is deeply disturbed by his presence as a white male, and he finally embodies a very harmful system,\" said Neevel, who is also the actual manager of the tour.
\"So when I was Pat, I tried to understand the power of men and what that pride was.
But, at the same time, what is the feeling of pain behind this arrogance ---
Restrictions on expression and sex.
\"The King is not willing to elaborate on the difference between the King and the Queen (
\"They are my sisters!
The 27-year-old of Winnipeg, Resi Lavaka, says Carlos Las Vegas.
\"We have the same love for fabrics and Lamei! \")
Instead, they prefer to talk about ways in which they can work together and support each other in cool culture.
But the political mopping did create a disagreement between the Queen and the King.
Halberstam said that first, American culture accepts the view that femininity is more easily exploited than masculinity.
\"In a culture that faces the male hierarchy, the feminine temperament is not protected,\" she said . \".
\"When it comes to commitment, imitation and performance of male temperament ---
To some extent, this scenario is more serious.
You can even see it in the middle of the line;
These performances don\'t look as explicit as the Queen\'s shows.
\"Although anyone can be the king of drag ---
Lesbian, straight woman, man, who--
Most kings are also male under the stage.
\"For some of them, they are either male or transgender, and their masculinity is real,\" Halberstam said . \".
\"But some of them are women, and for them, behavior is all about change.
\"Neevel\" really wants to be a boy in elementary school.
\"I will lie to the kids and say I am a boy and I will play with them for a month but they will find out,\" she said . \".
Now, as Uber
She could be a political Pat Riachi.
Jin Ning, she said, is \"the culmination of my young desire and the political ideal of adulthood.
I was able to be the lovely person I always wanted to come back in the fourth and fifth grades.
This is really satisfactory.
I was still fighting [when I came to New York]the fact that]
\"I am a biological woman,\" she said . \".
\"I should have some of my own dress and behavior.
But I am in total pain. For me, [kinging]
Liberation: people are really excited to see you and really celebrate how you look and behave on stage.
\"Maybe they were bullied for wearing a boy\'s clothes, or they wanted to wear a suit and tie to work: as a tugking, male women can swing and hold their heads high and quirky as they thought.
On the drag king stage, the outside can be interpreted as something confusing and weird getting sexy.
Halberstam says this is a threat to the mainstream.
This is why drag king may not eventually penetrate into direct culture like drag queen.
\"Heterosexual women find it threatening because it means if I think the cute heterosexual male of this man finds it threatening, am I gay because, after all, this should be their field.
Lesbians find it dangerous because it seems to be a stereotype of lesbians ---
A woman who wants to be a man.
\"To some extent, the presentation of male women as sexual objects on the face of the elderly --
Lesbiancentered ideal.
Before he became a trans, he said, when he first started doing the drag, the Winnipeg lesbian companion of lagama accused him of \"imitating the oppresses \".
\"I said, I\'m not a man,\" lagarjun said . \" He is transitioning and is currently taking testosterone.
\"I am male.
For something other than a woman. \" (
In fact, all members of the Kingdom are considered male to some extent.
Neevel likes \"transgender\" or \"gay dike \";
Campbell-
Smith, also known as Christopher of Toronto, is considered to be a \"lesbian boy \";
New York native Whitmire likes the word genderqueer. \")Christopher --the sexy-but-
Crazy Playboy changing Campbell\'s selfSmith --
It\'s no different from the person she\'s under the stage.
Except for the painful years before she got married, before she came out (she has a 9-year-
Old daughter who doesn\'t know her mother\'s acting life)
She always likes to look double.
\"I like to be a woman,\" Campbell said . \"Smith, a 32-year-
Old web designer
\"Whenever I want to do it, I like to be a man.
I\'m on the flow all the time, depending on which day.
She said: \"Her family and friends have always accepted her childish nature, which may be the reason why she is getting rid of political resistance.
\"Christopher is the man I am.
I don\'t think it\'s political for me to be a dragging King.
I don\'t want to fuck that guy.
I probably only made a few numbers where I was trying to make a statement.
\"The Kingdom is not the first drag-king tour --Mo B.
Dick started the Casanova Club in 1996 and took the road two years later ---
But this is the first time I \'ve brought the crew here.
The film\'s director, Slutsky, met Neevel while filming an unrelated documentary.
Girlfriend, is also the King.
Schlottsky accompanied the couple to the international tug-of-war event. -
The annual conference in Columbus, Ohio, produced by fellow kingdoms, brought the brilliance of the show (Columbus\' 42-year-
Old Singleton)--
Interest was immediately aroused.
\"Drag really challenged the concept of gender,\" she said . \".
\"To a large extent, because dragging the King through is so seamless.
For me, as a woman, look at another woman-
In a very short time, very few people manipulate-
Can look like a man, very charming.
\"Historically, dragging has always been a urban phenomenon, so the king is somewhat wary of traveling through rural areas, especially in the South.
Neevel chose this route because she wanted to introduce the art of dragging King to a new audience: \"The premise of the experience is to see how those who may not have seen the drag king react to us, she said: \"What do we mean by traveling in these towns. \".
But it did not relieve the fear of the other kings.
As the only person of color on the tour, Latin America and Singleton are both Africans.
Americans are particularly nervous.
\"I\'m not just worried that we\'re going to go to the Bible and people there don\'t know anything about their differences,\" says Singleton, a former scholar of racial theory who is now working on drag eventstime.
\"I\'m also nervous because I\'m not sure if most of the people who go with us understand what it means to me as a black man surrounded by white people, as my big cool crosses through the self, \"Hey everyone, guess what I look like dancing on stage in Dick!
But so far the Kings have been pleasantly surprised.
They found that there were abundant and energetic strange scenes everywhere.
\"When we do the show, they\'re just like sex ---
\"Yell at us and stuff in our pants,\" Whitmire said . \".
\"They may live in a small town, but they still know what they like and they are not afraid to express.
\"In Biloxi, Miss.
The staff of the lesbian bar they performed drew a mural of the kingdom.
That night, Luster earned over $100 in tips, after which the king signed off from T-
Shirt with chest
\"We don\'t know what\'s going to happen in Biloxi,\" Whitmire said . \".
There is a group of young and beautiful people. -
A very hungry market.
I don\'t think anyone has seen any acrobatic troupes there.
I talked to a few people there, a 22-year-
Young Dake and Dake in their 40 s, about how to form their own troupe.
The King said: \"That\'s why they like to drag: they know how powerful it is, they know how it enriches and enriches their lives, and they are inspired by this idea, this idea may reach more women.
\"I mean, it must be boring to be completely straight ---
\"Completely female or completely male,\" says Singleton . \".
\"Here is such a beautiful place to float back and forth. and forth. \"