Naomi Smalls is the stage name of Davis M. Heppenstall (born September 8, 1993), an American drag queen and reality television personality, best known as one of the runners-up on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race as well as RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 4 .
66-407: Karl Philip Michael Westerberg (born August 10, 1981), known professionally as Manila Luzon , is a Filipino-American drag queen , reality television personality, recording artist, and comedian. Luzon came to international attention as a contestant on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the first and fourth seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars . Luzon has also contributed to
132-492: A Long Island -based company specializing in poseable fashion dolls, released a doll in Luzon's likeness and wearing the now famous pineapple dress she wore during her time on Drag Race . The doll, which was available via special order, marked the first time a Drag Race contestant has been immortalized as a doll. Two years later, a couple of fans of Manila produced their very own 3D-printed Manila Luzon doll. On August 6, 2012, it
198-459: A 2018 article, Psychology Today stated that drag queens are "most typically gay cisgender men (though there are many drag queens of varying sexual orientations and gender identities)". Examples of trans-feminine drag queens, sometimes called trans queens , include Monica Beverly Hillz and Peppermint . Cisgender female drag queens are sometimes called faux queens or bioqueens , though critics of this practice assert that faux carries
264-570: A campaign for presidency in 1992 under the slogan "Lick Bush in '92!" and documented in the 1993 video of the same name. Smith also ran for president in 1996 with the slogan "Lick Slick Willie in '96!" In each of these campaigns Smith ran on the Queer Nation Party ticket. In June 2019, a play based on Smith's 1992 presidential campaign, titled Ms. Blakk for President, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau and starring McCraney in
330-435: A clear separation between these two terms. She defined drag as an art form associated with queer identity whereas female impersonation comes from a wide a range of gender identity paradigms, including heteronormativity . Additionally, many drag artists view drag as a lived form of self-expression or creativity, and perceive drag as something that is not limited to the stage or to performance. In contrast, female impersonation
396-672: A dozen Drag Race queens in RuPaul's Drag Race Live! , a Las Vegas show residency at the Flamingo Las Vegas . She is one of the most followed queens from Drag Race , and has accumulated over 1.6 million Instagram followers as of October 2021. In 2024, she was announced as one of eight former Drag Race contestants participating in Painting with Raven, a spin-off of the WOW Presents Plus series Painted with Raven . Smalls released
462-512: A drag-aissance. Before being colonized by Spain in the mid-1500s, it was a national custom for men to dress in women's clothing. However, when the Spaniards arrived, they not only outlawed homosexuality but executed men that appeared to be homosexual. Spain cast a culture of Machismo onto the Philippines, causing any kind of queerness and queer culture to be heavily suppressed. Nonetheless, in
528-410: A few applications outside of performance. The origin of the term drag is uncertain. The first recorded use of drag in reference to actors dressed in women's clothing is from 1870. It may have been based on the term "grand rag" which was historically used for a masquerade ball . The term female impersonation refers to a type of theatrical performance where a man dresses in women's clothing for
594-452: A heightened or exaggerated gender presentation. In the 1940s John Herbert , who sometimes competed in drag pageants, was the victim of an attempted robbery while he was dressed as a woman. His assailants falsely claimed that Herbert had solicited them for sex, and Herbert was accused and convicted of indecency under Canada's same-sex sexual activity law (which was not repealed until 1969). After being convicted, Herbert served time in
660-623: A line differentiating amateurs performing in drag for fun from professional female impersonators who made a living performing in drag. The second original meaning of drag queen was applied to men who chose to wear women's clothing on the streets, an act which was at that time illegal in New York City. Of this latter type two additional slang terms were applied: square drag queens which meant "boys who looked like girls but who you knew were boys" and street queens who were queer male sex workers, often homeless, that dressed as women. This second use of
726-465: A lot of their time in their drag personas, to people who do drag only occasionally. Women who dress as men and entertain by imitating them are called drag kings . Those who do occasional drag may be from other backgrounds than the LGBT community. There is a long history of folkloric and theatrical crossdressing that involves people of all orientations. Not everyone who does drag at some point in their lives
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#1732855681682792-626: A person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. Historically, drag queens have usually been gay men , and have been a part of gay culture . People do drag for reasons ranging from self-expression to mainstream performance. Drag shows frequently include lip-syncing , live singing, and dancing. They typically occur at LGBTQ pride parades , drag pageants , cabarets , carnivals , and nightclubs . Drag queens vary by type, culture, and dedication, from professionals who star in films and spend
858-425: A team. Despite being one of the season's front-runners with three challenge wins, Manila was controversially eliminated by Naomi Smalls in the eighth episode of the season, which aired on February 1, 2019, ultimately placing sixth. On November 16, 2018, indie musician VELO released the single "Where My Man At," featuring Luzon and Drag Race season 9 and season 10 contestant Eureka O'Hara . The two also appear in
924-458: A television commercial for travel website Orbitz's new portal for LGBT leisure travel. After the season, Luzon was a playable character with Pandora Boxx and Yara Sofia for the "RuPaul's Drag Race: Dragopolis" mobile app. On November 9, 2018, it was announced that Manila would return to All Stars 4 , alongside fellow All Stars 1 Team Latrila team-mate Latrice Royale, but this time would compete separately against each other rather than as
990-669: A tradition, when pantomimes became a popular form of entertainment in Europe during the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. The dame became a stock character with a range of attitudes from " charwoman " to " grande dame " who was mainly used for improvisation. A notable, and highly successful, pantomime dame from this period was Dan Leno . Beyond theatre, in the 1800s, Molly houses became a place for gay men to meet, often dressed in drag. Despite homosexuality being outlawed, men would dress in women's clothing and attend these taverns and coffee houses to congregate and meet other, mostly gay, men. By
1056-409: A woman; I dress like a drag queen!" The meaning of the term drag queen has changed across time. The term first emerged in New York City in the 1950s, and initially had two meanings. The first meaning referred to an amateur performer who did not make a living in drag but may have participated in amateur public performances such as those held at a drag ball or a drag pageant . This was meant to draw
1122-595: A youth reformatory in Guelph, Ontario . Herbert later served another sentence for indecency at reformatory in Mimico . Herbert wrote Fortune and Men's Eyes in 1964 based on his time behind bars. He included the character of Queenie as an authorial self-insertion . In 1973 the first Canadian play about and starring a drag queen, Hosanna by Michel Tremblay , was performed at Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal . In 1977
1188-701: Is American. Westerberg grew up in Cottage Grove, Minnesota and resides in Los Angeles, but he also considers New York City home. A longtime resident of Manhattan , Westerberg resided in Harlem with his boyfriend at the time, Antoine Ashley ( Sahara Davenport ), who Luzon began dating in 2007 and was a contestant on the second season of Drag Race . Ashley later died of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on October 1, 2012. Westerberg studied graphic design at
1254-536: Is a drag queen or a drag king. The term "drag" has evolved over time. Traditional definitions of the term drag utilized a gender binary which used a sex-based definition of drag where a person would be considered "in drag" if they were wearing the clothes of the opposite sex for the purposes of entertainment. However, with new paradigms of gender identity and the embrace of non-binary gender , newer definitions of drag have abandoned this binary framework in favor of defining drag as an art form of gender performance which
1320-433: Is an ongoing debate about whether transgender drag queens are actually considered "drag queens". Some argue that, because a drag queen is defined as a man portraying a woman, transgender women cannot be drag queens. Drag kings are women who assume a masculine aesthetic, but this is not always the case, because there are also biokings, bioqueens, and female queens , which are people who perform their own biological sex through
1386-475: Is not limited to a binary framework but which must engage with and critique conceptions of gender in some fashion. This could include explorations with heightened forms of masculinity or femininity, as well as playing with other forms of gender identity. Unlike female impersonation , the term drag is closely associated with queer identity . This close association between the term drag and the LGBTQ community began in
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#17328556816821452-440: Is specifically limited to performance and may or may not involve an LGBTQI point of view. Female impersonation can be traced back at least as far as ancient Greece. There was little to no gender equity then and women held a lower social status. This meant male actors would play female roles during theatrical performances. This tradition continued for centuries but began to be less prevalent as motion pictures became popular. During
1518-666: Is the only country in the Arab world with an increasingly visible drag scene. Drag culture has existed in Lebanon for several decades but gained popularity with the astronomical rise of Bassem Feghali , who came to prominence in the 1990s, becoming a household name for his impersonation of Lebanese female singers. Due to the global success of Rupaul's Drag Race , Beirut's drag scene has adopted various influences that blend American drag culture with local, unique cultural elements. The drag scene has grown so much that in 2019 Vogue magazine declared it
1584-481: Is used to refer to them. RuPaul has said, "You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee ; I don't care! Just so long as you call me." Drag queens are sometimes called transvestites , although that term also has many other connotations than the term drag queen and is not much favored by many drag queens themselves. The term tranny, an abbreviation of the term transvestite, has been adopted by some drag performers, notably RuPaul, and
1650-574: The Amazon Prime Video Filipino reality competition series Drag Den , taking on the role of 'Drag Lord'. Since its debut in December 2022, two seasons of Drag Den have aired. Luzon also serves as an executive producer of the series. Westerberg took his drag name from the capital city ( Manila ) and the largest island ( Luzon ) of the Philippines , where his mother was born. His father
1716-521: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors , becoming the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States. In 1991, drag queen Terence Alan Smith, as Joan Jett Blakk , ran against Richard M. Daley for the office of mayor of Chicago, Illinois. The campaign was chronicled in the 1991 video Drag in for Votes . After qualifying for presidency on his 35th birthday, Smith announced
1782-629: The Stonewall riots , a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of 28 June 1969, at the Stonewall Inn , located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City. The riots are widely considered to be the catalyst for the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in
1848-523: The University of Minnesota, Duluth . As of 2013, Westerberg resides in Los Angeles, California where he moved shortly after Ashley's death. In November 2016, Westerberg proposed to his boyfriend Michael Alvarez, also known as Mic J Rez. On December 24, 2017, the couple wed at the Silver Bells Wedding Chapel, with an Elvis impersonator as the officiant. Drag queen A drag queen is
1914-483: The 1960s. In 1971, an article in Lee Brewster 's Drag Queens magazine described a drag queen as a "homosexual transvestite " who is hyperfeminine, flamboyant, and militant. Drag queens were further described as having an attitude of superiority, and commonly courted by heterosexual men who would "not ordinarily participate in homosexual relationships". While the term drag queen implied "homosexual transvestite",
1980-614: The 19th century, followed by female impersonators working in vaudeville, burlesque, and the legitimate theatre in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Pansy Craze was a period of increased LGBT visibility in American popular culture from the late-1920s until the mid-1930s; during the " craze ," drag queens — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in New York City , Chicago , Los Angeles , and San Francisco . The exact dates of
2046-678: The Canadian film Outrageous! , starring drag queen Craig Russell , became one of the first gay-themed films to break out into mainstream theatrical release. In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the application of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to consensual homosexual sex between adults was unconstitutional, "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary". Since then, drag culture in India has been growing and becoming
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2112-661: The United States . During the summer of 1976, a restaurant in Fire Island Pines , New York , denied entry to a visitor in drag named Terry Warren. When Warren's friends in Cherry Grove heard what had happened, they dressed up in drag, and, on 4 July 1976 , sailed to the Pines by water taxi . This turned into a yearly event where drag queens go to the Pines, called the Invasion of the Pines . In 1961, drag queen José Sarria ran for
2178-658: The United States in the 1920s with the Pansy Craze when the first gay bars in America were established by the mafia during the Prohibition Era and drag entertainers became a popular form of entertainment at these underground gay speakeasies . Before this point, the term drag was not necessarily associated with gay culture, but after this point forward drag became "inextricably tied to the queer community". Traditionally, drag involves cross-dressing and transforming ones sex through
2244-564: The beginning of transgender activism in San Francisco. On 17 March 1968, in Los Angeles, to protest entrapment and harassment by the Los Angeles Police Department , two drag queens known as "The Princess" and "The Duchess" held a St. Patrick's Day party at Griffith Park , a popular cruising spot and a frequent target of police activity. More than 200 gay men socialized through the day. Drag queens were also involved in
2310-533: The boundaries of gender and sexuality and it became a place for the LGBT community, especially gay men, to feel accepted. As LGBT culture has slowly become more accepted in American society, drag has also become more, though not totally, acceptable in today's society. In the 1940s and 1950s, Arthur Blake was one of the few female impersonators to be successful in both gay and mainstream entertainment, becoming famous for his impersonations of Bette Davis , Carmen Miranda , and Eleanor Roosevelt in night clubs. At
2376-472: The buzz of her controversial departure in All Stars , the video received more than 300,000 views in less than 24 hours. Luzon made a guest appearance on General Hospital in late summer 2019. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed her 19th on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants. Luzon is the host and head judge of
2442-575: The competition after Luzon had been the only queen that season to never previously land in the bottom two. Smalls reached the final, and finished as the Runner up with Monique Heart . She became the first Drag Race contestant to finish as Runner up to both of her seasons since Raven. Outside of Drag Race , Smalls was a co-host with Kim Chi for the WoWPresents internet series M.U.G. where they critique queens makeup looks. She makes recurring appearances on
2508-417: The compilation album series Christmas Queens . With the success of RuPaul's Drag Race , Luzon auditioned for the third season of the reality series, and went on to appear in every episode until its finale. She lip-synced against Raja Gemini to "Champion (DJ BunJoe's Olympic Mix)" by RuPaul but lost the lip-sync and became the runner-up of the season. The publicity generated by her participation in
2574-587: The connotation that the drag is fake, and that the use of bioqueen exclusively for cisgender females is a misnomer since trans-feminine queens exhibit gynomorphic features. Drag queens' counterparts are drag kings : performers, usually women, who dress in exaggeratedly masculine clothing. Examples of drag kings include Landon Cider . Trans men who dress like drag kings are sometimes termed trans kings. Some drag queens may prefer to be referred to as " she " while in drag and desire to stay completely in character. Other drag performers are indifferent to which pronoun
2640-636: The dress she was featured wearing was auctioned off by Logo TV in commemoration of World AIDS Day . Proceeds from the auction were donated to the National Association of People with AIDS. In 2011, Luzon, along with third season Drag Race contestants Carmen Carrera and Shangela, appeared in a television commercial for travel-related website Orbitz . In addition to the commercial, she and Shangela also did an entertainment news segment for US Weekly where they discussed current male celebrities and reimagine them as drag queens. In August 2012, NiniMomo,
2706-665: The early 1900s drag started to reappear in the media. Drag became a key element of national pantomime theatre and as time went on, drag queens appeared in other forms of theatre and in movies. Drag in South Africa emerged in the 1950s in major cities such as Johannesburg and Cape Town . It started in the form of underground pageants which created a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in Apartheid South Africa, where people could be punished by law for being gay. Being gay
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2772-403: The eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race on February 1, 2016. At 21 years old, she was the season's youngest contestant. Smalls was in the bottom two in the fifth episode after she played Tiffany Pollard for the annual " Snatch Game " competition. She lip synced to " Causing a Commotion " by Madonna against Acid Betty and won, saving herself from elimination. She won the makeover challenge
2838-472: The era of vaudeville it was considered immodest for women to appear on stage. Due to that circumstance, some men became famous as "female impersonators", the most notable being Julian Eltinge . At the peak of his career he was one of the most sought after and highest paid actors in the world. Andrew Tribble was another early female impersonator who gained fame on Broadway and in Black Vaudeville . In
2904-629: The first cabaret. However, drag in Thailand was actually heavily influenced by drag queens from the Philippines as the first drag show started after the owner of a gay club saw drag queens from the Philippines perform in Bangkok . Therefore, drag shows started in Thailand in the mid-1970s and have become increasingly popular over time, especially in major cities like Bangkok. In Renaissance England , women were forbidden from performing on stage, so female roles were played by men or boys. The practice continued, as
2970-573: The following episode, where she designed an outfit for one of the Little Women: LA cast members. She reached the final three in the season, but lost to Bob the Drag Queen , and tied with Kim Chi for runner-up. On November 8, 2018, it was announced that Smalls would be returning to compete in the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars . Smalls placed high for the first four episodes, doing incredibly well but just shy of winning. She
3036-437: The gay male community in the United States, but it is considered offensive to most transgender and transsexual people. Many drag performers refer to themselves as drag artists, as opposed to drag queens, as some contemporary forms of drag have become nonbinary . In Brazil, androgynous drag performers are sometimes called drag queer , as a form of gender neutrality . Among drag queens and their contacts today, there
3102-466: The internet series " Fashion Photo RuView " filling in for Raja or Raven. Smalls did an interview with Cardi B for Cosmopolitan in February 2018. She started her own YouTube series, Small's World , where she documents her life touring across the country. The first episode premiered on February 16, 2018. In September 2019, at RuPaul's DragCon NYC, Smalls was named as one of a rotating cast of
3168-655: The invitation of the Roosevelts, he performed his impersonation of Eleanor at the White House . He impersonated Davis and Miranda in the 1952 film Diplomatic Courier . The Cooper Donuts Riot was a May 1959 incident in Los Angeles in which drag queens, lesbians, transgender women, and gay men rioted; it was one of the first LGBT protests in the United States. The Compton's Cafeteria riot , which involved drag queens and others, occurred in San Francisco in 1966. It marked
3234-524: The mainstream art culture. The hotel chain of Lalit Groups spaced a franchise of clubs where drag performances are hosted in major cities of India such as Mumbai , Delhi , and Bangalore . Maya the Drag Queen , Rani Kohinoor ( Sushant Divgikar ), Lush Monsoon, Betta Naan Stop , Tropical Marca, Zeeshan Ali, and Patruni Sastry are some examples of Indian drag artists. In 2018, Hyderabad had its first drag convention. In 2020, India's first drag specific magazine Dragvanti began publication. Lebanon
3300-456: The mid-1900s, pantomime, and the use of pantomime dames, had declined, although it remains a popular Christmas tradition. The role of the dame, however, evolved to become more about the individual performer. Many female impersonators built up their own fan bases, and began performing outside of their traditional pantomime roles. Drag performance in the United States had its roots in the female impersonations of performers in minstrel shows of
3366-573: The movement are debated, with a range from the late 1920s until 1935. The term "pansy craze" was first coined by the historian George Chauncey in his 1994 book Gay New York . The first person known to describe himself as "the queen of drag" was William Dorsey Swann , born enslaved in Hancock, Maryland , who in the 1880s started hosting drag balls in Washington, DC attended by other men who were formerly enslaved. The balls were often raided by
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#17328556816823432-491: The performers were in fact cisgender heterosexual men and women, but others were closeted LGBTQI individuals due to the politics and social environment of the period. It was criminal in many American cities to be homosexual, or for LGBTQI people to congregate, and it was therefore necessary for female and male impersonators to distance themselves from identifying as queer publicly in order to avoid criminal charges and loss of career. The need to hide and dissociate from queer identity
3498-802: The police, as documented in the newspapers. In 1896, Swann was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail on the false charge of "keeping a disorderly house" (a euphemism for running a brothel ). He requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland , but was denied. In the early to mid-1900s, female impersonation had become tied to the LGBT community and thus criminality, so it had to change forms and locations. It moved from being popular mainstream entertainment to something done only at night in disreputable areas, such as San Francisco's Tenderloin . Here female impersonation started to evolve into what we today know as drag and drag queens. Drag queens such as José Sarria first came to prominence in these clubs. People went to these nightclubs to play with
3564-463: The show brought many new opportunities to perform at various national and international LGBT events throughout the United States and Canada, including New York Pride and Vancouver Pride . She has been active in AIDS awareness and activism. After being featured in a Gilead Sciences ad titled "Red Ribbon Runway" with fellow Drag Race co-stars Carmen Carrera , Delta Work , Shangela and Alexis Mateo ,
3630-449: The sole purpose of entertaining an audience. The term female impersonator is sometimes used interchangeably with drag queen, although they are not the same. For example, in 1972, Esther Newton described a female impersonator as a "professional drag queen". She considered the term female impersonator to be the one that was (then) widely understood by heterosexual audiences. However, feminist and queer studies scholar Sarah French defined
3696-590: The song's music video (together with Thorgy Thor , Ginger Minj and Trinity the Tuck ). She later appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season 11 of Drag Race . On February 1, 2019, Luzon released her single "Go Fish" alongside its music video. The video features fellow All Stars 4 contestant Naomi Smalls, Luzon's husband, and the Heathers , a prominent clique of Drag Race 3 contestants featuring Luzon, Raja , Delta Work, and Carmen Carrera. Following
3762-431: The term drag carried no such connotations. In the 1970s, drag queen was continually defined as a "homosexual transvestite". Drag was parsed as changing one's clothes to those of a different sex, while queen was said to refer to a homosexual man. For much of history, drag queens were men, but in more modern times, cisgender and trans women , as well as non-binary people, also perform as drag queens. In
3828-401: The term was also layered with transphobic subtext and the term drag queen was again meant to protect the professional female impersonator by allowing them to dissociate themselves from both aspects of queer culture and from sex workers in order to maintain respectability among the predominantly heteronormative audiences who employed them. This understanding of the term drag queen persisted through
3894-562: The title role, opened at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. Naomi Smalls Heppenstall was born on September 8, 1993, in Fresno, California , and was later adopted in Redlands . He has eight brothers and three sisters, many of whom were also adopted. The name Naomi Smalls comes from supermodel Naomi Campbell and rapper Biggie Smalls . Smalls was announced as one of twelve contestants for
3960-411: The twentieth century some gender impersonators, both female and male, in the United States became highly successful performing artists in non-LGBTQ nightclubs and theaters. There was a concerted effort by these working female and male impersonators in America, to separate the art of gender impersonation from queer identity with an overt representation of working gender impersonators as heterosexual. Some of
4026-509: The use of makeup and other costume devices. However, under newer conceptions of drag, conceivably performing an exaggerated and heightened form of one's own gender could be considered a drag performance. While drag is often viewed as a performance based art form and a type of entertainment, it is possible to engage with drag as an art form outside of performance or for purposes other than entertainment. Drag has been used within studio art such as photography, political activism, and fashion to name
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#17328556816824092-466: Was announced that Manila was one of twelve past Drag Race contestants selected to join the cast of the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars , which premiered on the Logo network on October 22, 2012. Paired with contestant Latrice Royale to form Team Latrila , the duo was eliminated in the third episode of the series that aired on November 5, 2012, placing in joint 7th/8th place. Their elimination
4158-473: Was in the bottom for the roast of Lady Bunny in episode five but won against Gia Gunn in a Lipsync in the episode six "LaLaPaRuZa" to keep her place. She was in the bottom the following episode, but was saved by Latrice Royale . She won the makeover challenge, becoming the first ever queen to win two makeover challenges, and the only one to only win the makeover challenge on each of her seasons, but she controversially eliminated front-runner Manila Luzon from
4224-564: Was not legalized in South Africa until 1998, so pageants, such as the famous Miss Gay Western Cape, did not become official until the late 1990s. Discrimination against drag is widespread in South Africa, and drag queens face the threat of violence by being openly gay. Furthermore, there is not language to explore queerness in Xhosa , one of the indigenous languages of South Africa. After homosexual acts were decriminalized in Thailand in 1956, gay clubs and other queer spaces began opening which lead to
4290-537: Was one of many who led to widespread criticism of the first installment of All Stars . On October 12, 2012, Manila appeared on an episode of the MTV series Made where she mentored a young man in the art of drag, allowing him to explore his drag alter-ego as he prepared for New York City's Gay Pride March. Prior to the airing of the season finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars , Manila (along with All Stars contestants Raven , Latrice Royale , and Tammie Brown ) appeared in
4356-559: Was prevalent among gender impersonators working in non-LGBTQ nightclubs before heteronormative audiences as late as the 1970s. Female impersonation has been and continues to be illegal in some places, which inspired the drag queen José Sarria to hand out labels to his friends reading, "I am a boy", so they could not be accused of female impersonation. American drag queen RuPaul once said, "I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?" He also said, "I don't dress like
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