Queerness Contested: Derogatory Language in Drag Performance and the Fundamental Queer Antagonism
By Sam Danley
TRANNYGATE: DRAG’S DIGITAL DISCOURSE
Since its premiere in 2009, the reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009-) has garnered significant critical and commercial success, cherry picking drag queens up by their lace front wigs and dropping them into the living rooms of Betty and Joe Beercan. Drawing larger audiences with each new season, Drag Race has brought about significant changes in the drag performance industry by expanding a potential for mainstream success and ushering in a new generation of “Drag Race baby boomers”—younger performers whose first exposure to […]