This Saturday (16) is International Drag Queens Day. The date aims to give visibility to the cultural movement that breaks standards and fights for freedom.
Contrary to popular belief, being a drag queen has nothing to do with gender identity or sexual orientation. Making drag queen is an art, a culture — and anyone can immerse themselves in that universe.
The movement emerged in theater at a time when women were prohibited from playing female roles. Thus, men had this function.
This took another level in the 1960s, when drag came to be seen as a cultural movement.
In Brazil, the artists were known as “transformists” — due to the use of female paraphernalia. They perform on catwalks, theaters, nightclubs, dances.
The paths opened back there, made some current artists write their name in history. Pabllo Vittar, for example, was the first drag queen to perform at the Coachella international festival.
The highlight also reached the screens, when the presence of Dicesar — the drag Dimmy Kieer — who participated in a reality show on open TV.
breaking patterns
Cisgender man in women’s clothes, trans woman mounted as a drag, gays, lesbians, it doesn’t matter. As the drag queen explained DaCota Monteiro 26 years old, at CNN, “The drag movement takes everything that they have been told that is natural, that is the rule, and rejects it. He cheats and breaks the pattern,” she said.
The artist is part of the Reality Show Queen Stars Brasil, launched in 2022.
DaCota says that art shows visually and performatively that “what was presented to us as feminine, masculine is not only constructed, but constructable and deconstructive — susceptible to abstraction, caricature and much more”, he says.
When the artist is mounted, she says she is capable of anything. “People never know what to expect from a drag queen, so everything is justifiable, I feel invincible! But it’s not something faked, forced or anything like that, it’s me being 100%, It’s my essence condensed into a persona ”, she highlights.
For her, the level reached with the singers is still far from ideal.
“LGBTphobia is still very wide open, Pabllo Vittar herself was used in fake news. Some of us have visibility and money, but that doesn’t mean acceptance and respect from everyone,” she laments.
For her, the solution is to value her work as an artist, without stereotypes. “People [precisam] validate our work as an art and as a work – which takes years to polish”, he said.
*With information from Karla Chaves, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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