Sentences with phrase «role of the drag queen»

While the boxer functions as a spectacle of masculine power, «The Pimp» displays the performative nature of gender expression as he takes on the role of the drag queen Jori < 3.

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But she does not deal with the fact that the drag queens make manifest a major purpose of mainstream gay activism, although she quotes approvingly anthropologist Esther Newton: «The effect of the drag system is to wrench the sex roles loose from that which supposedly determines them, genital sex.»

A drag queen is a person, usually male, who dresses in clothing of the opposite sex and often acts with exaggerated femininity and in feminine gender roles which is for the.

It strikes me that a lot of his roles have been disenfranchised characters — an illegal immigrant («Dirty Pretty Things»); a drag queen («Kinky Boots»); the frustrated brother of a drug boss («American Gangster»).