With the hard part done, Gray's transformation into Hercury is almost complete. “You can argue that all gender presentation is drag, so I mean in that way, I'm always doing drag,” said Gray. “Most contour is focused on making faces more feminine, and so you're sort of breaking the rules of contour because you're trying to make your face look more masculine,” Gray explained.īut to all that, Freddie Hercury would simply say, as the Queen song goes: "Don’t Stop Me Now." “There's not as many venues that are even looking to book kings,” said Gray. “I actually only have a home now because my friend and I are actually just making it,” said Gray.Īmong events typically centered around drag queens, being a king has its own challenges. “As I started to figure out my own identity, and that I'm genderfluid, and that I have a lot of masculine presentation that I want to express, that drag king-ing was a good way to do that,” Gray said.įreddie Hercury is a drag persona they’ve done for less than a year, but Grey already found their place here in Buffalo. “I still don't know what half this stuff is called,” they joked, going through their makeup bag. Thankfully for Brittany Gray, makeup does. "But as you get older, you kind of realize that it's more than that.”Ĭonnecting with who you truly are doesn’t come with instructions. “They call it a tomboy when you're young, right?" said Brittany Gray. While in recent decades, drag queens have surged in popularity, both for and against, there are performers presenting all kinds of genders on stage. Men at Sea in the 19th C.Drag has been around, in one form or another, for more than 100 years.Major UN Vote Recognizes Sexual Minorities.What Ever Happened to Alec and Maurice?.‘In porn there are scripts at various levels.’.Midnight Cowboy Gave Us a New Kind of Love.The Novel de Beauvoir Didn’t Publish in 1954.Brian Broome: Writing at Busy Intersections.A Fierce Farewell to Artist Louise Fishman.Stephen Sondheim: A Private Public Figure.Drag Shows and Illicit Love in a 1959 Novel. Climbers and Creepers of the High Chapparal.Social Media Censorship Is About to Get Worse.‘Don’t Say Gay’ Comes from a Tired Playbook.Hemingway and Hart Crane: Blood Brothers?.José Villalobos, Installation & Performance Artist.‘A Dab of Tar on a Sailor’s Posteriors’.Steve Neil Johnson, a Weaver of Mysteries.Angelo Madsen Minax’ Surreal Documentaries.Residency Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Go Out.Julius Eastman: Composer, Performer, Iconoclast. Coming to Terms with the ‘Gay Holocaust’.Marshall Moore, Expat Writer with Southern Roots.How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized.Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On.Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.
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