Quote Gallery

In this area, you will be find lines quoted from other kings, fans, and random people regarding the art of drag kinging.

"We're like little kids playing dress-up"- Labio
From Now Meet The Drag Kings by Kathy Bishop

"Brimming with macho swagger, they're born entertainers who shatter stereotypes about women while embracing stereotypes about men."- Michael Musto
From "Women Behaving Manly"

"I Like to send mixed messages with the clothes I wear- pearls with jeans, clunky boots with granny skirts…"- Leslie Lawrence
From King For A Day

"Make yourself foolish! Make yourself sillier. Make yourself more outside the rules that have been set up for you!"- Kate Bornstein
From "An Interview With Kate Bornstein"
By Susan Bridle

"Kinging is a way of life"- Colleen Van Tassell
From "King For A Night"

"We're still stuck with ideas of femininity that won't allow women to be 'too course, too vulgar.'"- Laurence Senelick

"A woman simply is, but a man must become… masculinity is risky and elusive"- Camille Paglia

"Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being."
Judith Butler
From Gender Trouble

"Kinging it up for a day could be a lark, or it could be your lifestyle. It could be an adventure in pleasure and play as well as a 'serious real for the production of gender difference and the accommodation of gender variance.'"- Judith Halberstam

"I look at a drag king like a piece of candy; if you take the wrapping off, there's all that sweet stuff."- Elizabeth Marrero
From Lauren Hastein's Master's Thesis

"It's so amazing. It's magical. The person looks like a woman, and right there in front of your eyes, all of the sudden they look like a man. Well, it's not even how they look; its your perception."
-Johnny Science

"Drag is the artform, representation is the goal, and camp is the strategy."- Betsy Gallagher

"MTV excels at acting like they're a moral barometer for the world, then making the world into a whorehouse."- Listserve

"The whole process is both exhilarating and terrifying. So many things have finally clicked into place. It's amazine to looks back at my life and now say, 'Ah, I understand. Everything finally makes sense.'"
-Listserve

"Dressing up in the accoutrements and fineries of the opposite sex sparks power, glamour, and fantasy."- De Kwok 
From: Better Living Through Drag

"It's about identity. It's about gender. It's about performance. It's about culture. It's about sex. And in some ways, it's about Nazi bondage babes and nipple torture."- Chris Ziegler
From Gender Vertigo

"We're born naked; the rest is drag!"- Ru Paul

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