Divas in the drawing room: The 'Gilded Age' drag cameo you might have missed
In an age of dukes and debutantes, the real queens were celebrities in their own right, performing in private clubs—and occasionally on HBO.
July 27, 2025
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Tennessee drag ban will stay as SCOTUS refuses to hear case, but artists 'refuse to be silenced'
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's drag ban, but a separate suit is still ongoing.
February 26, 2025
Cynthia Lee Fontaine está contando la historia de esta histórica reina del drag de Texas en un nuevo documental (exclusivo)
La ganadora del premio a la Miss Simpatía de la temporada 8 de RuPaul's Drag Race le cuenta a The Advocate sobre un nuevo documental en el que participa que sigue la vida de la leyenda del drag Barbette.
August 23, 2024
Cynthia Lee Fontaine is telling this historic Texas drag queen's story in a new documentary (exclusive)
The RuPaul’s Drag Race season eight Miss Congeniality winner tells The Advocate about a new documentary she's part of that follows the life of drag legend Barbette.
June 20, 2024
Female impersonator's killer found guilty
Columbus, Ohio,
resident Michael Jennings, 34, was found guilty on
Thursday of killing a female impersonator with a samurai
sword. The victim, Gary McMurtry (pictured), used the
stage name Brazon.
August 26, 2005
The A-List Interview: Uzo Aduba
The Orange Is the New Black star on drag impersonators and passionate female admirers.
April 26, 2016
Prosecuting a killer
In August, an Ohio man was found guilty of killing a well-known female impersonator with a samurai sword. Here is a recap of the trial
September 15, 2005
More Than Joy, Drag Queens & Kings Fuel Our Community
Drag — whether male and female impersonation — has been a part of America’s culture since even before our nation was born.
April 14, 2023
The Other White Meat
As one of the subjects of the documentary about the drag pageant circuit, Pageant, opening in select theaters, and one of the contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race, premiering next month on Logo, Victoria "Porkchop" Parker may not look or act like your typical female impersonator, but make no mistake, she is one of the best.
December 25, 2008
How the era of 'men were men' birthed America's first drag superstars
In the 1910s and 1920s, drag musicals were just as popular as football on college campuses and in male-only social clubs, writes historian Andrew Erdman.
August 21, 2024
Garland Illusionist Jim Bailey Dies at 77
Although he called himself an illusionist rather than a drag performer, he certainly brought drag to the mainstream.
June 2, 2015
Trans TV timeline
Decades back, when TV personalities like Milton Berle and Flip Wilson threw on dresses for laughs, they inadvertently carved first notches in the time line of transgender representation. By the '70s drag queens, transvestites, transsexuals, and even dual-gender space travelers (in 1977's sci-fi comedy Quark) were cropping up regularly in TV movies and popular sitcoms like The Jeffersons. Here are some highlights of characters who set the stage for Romjin's Alexis on Ugly Betty.
April 23, 2007
Meet Tom Hearn, the risqué comedian with a thirst for daddies
"I'm into daddies, especially if they know how to pay the bill," the viral star tells Pride's Ricky Cornish.
December 10, 2024
Last Words With RuPaul's Drag Race's Milk
The Advocate spoke with RuPaul's Drag Race's Milk after he sashayed away.
April 3, 2014
Reba McEntire Slams Tennessee Anti-Drag Law, Blesses Queens in High Heels
“We’ve got a real problem in this country, and to be worrying about men wanting to dress up as women? God bless ’em to wear those high heels," McEntire said.
March 31, 2023
Trans Trailblazer Aleshia Brevard Dead at 79
The actress was one of the first people to have transition surgery at a time when the word "transgender" didn't exist, but she was so much more than that.
July 25, 2017
