History Main / DragQueen

* [=RuPaul=] Andre Charles is the most famous drag queen in American media. His [=RuPaul=] persona became famous in TheNineties for being very approachable...if [[ScaryBlackMan scarily tall]], standing at 6'4 ''before'' factoring in the platform heels and big hair. She has released albums and hosted talk shows, and has lately been in the spotlight for the reality show ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', [[XMeetsY essentially]] ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' meets ''ProjectRunway'' meets ''Series/AmericanIdol''...with gender-bending.
* {{Queen}}'s video for "I Want to Break Free" had the members dressing up in drag.

** DavidBowie famously wore a dress on the cover of 1970's ''The Man Who Sold the World'', and later combined this with ActingForTwo in the video "Boys Keep Swinging" (1979) -- all three of his [[Main/SelfBackingVocalist backup singers]] are him in drag, and the instrumental finish of the song is used to underscore a FashionShow that gives each one a turn on the catwalk.
*** MarilynManson has also done this...many, many times

* In ''The Boy Who Followed Ripley'', [[{{Ripliad}} Tom Ripley]] (best known from ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'') decides that the best way to rescue a friend from kidnappers is to disguise himself. In drag. He showed a knack for disguises in previous stories, but he seems incredibly amused to try drag for the first time. (He's not really gay. [[AmbiguouslyGay Or is he?]])

* {{Bramwell}} featured an episode about a 1890s transvestite Hackett, implied to be a performer and openly stated to be a male prostitute involved with sailors.

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Metrosexuality}}'' where the LocalHangout's bouncer is a tall, imposing and massively built ScaryBlackGuy (DeObia Oparei) who speaks in a very deep [[BadassBarytone barytone]] register, despite wearing incredibly flashy colours and feathers.

* Appears in ''PokemonXAndY'', which is somewhat fitting for a game named after sex chromosomes. The pink PlagueDoctor bird Pokemon Spritzee's evolved form, Aromatisse, is designed to resemble Divine, probably as a ShoutOut to the Creator/JohnWaters film ''Film/PinkFlamingos''.

--> ''Why are so mean? You went to all the trouble of putting on a nice dress, and now you're going to be rude and bossy to people? Do you know what your version of a woman is a lot like? A '''guy'''. You could have stayed a '''guy''', if you were going be an asshole about it!''

* John Mulaney had a bit on his special ''The Top Part'' questioning why so many drag queens go for the same "big & brassy" persona and deliberately tacky choice of costume, wondering if their idea of a woman is a housewife from ''TheFarSide''. He also expresses his annoyance that a lot of them like to bully him and criticize his style:
--> ''Why are so mean to me? Why are you acting so overbearing and opinionated? You know what your idea of a woman is a lot like? It's a lot like a '''guy'''. You could have just stayed a '''guy''', if you're going be an asshole about it!''

--> ''Why are so mean to me? Why are you acting so overbearing and opinionated? You know what your idea of a woman is? It's a lot like '''a guy'''. You could have just stayed '''a guy''', if you're going be an asshole about it!''

* Appears in ''PokemonXAndY'', which is somewhat fitting for a game named after sex chromosomes. The pink PlagueDoctor bird Pokemon Spritzee's evolved form, Aromatisse, is designed to resemble Divine, probably as a ShoutOut to the cREATOR/JohnWaters film ''Film/PinkFlamingos''.

* The role of Edna Turnblad in ''{{Hairspray}}'' has always been [[CrossCastRole played by a man]], the original 80's version had Divine play the part, the stage version had Harvey Fierstein, and the new 2007 version has JohnTravolta.
** Divine was a regular in the works of JohnWaters until his death.

* Appears in ''PokemonXAndY'', which is somewhat fitting for a game named after sex chromosomes. The pink PlagueDoctor bird Pokemon Spritzee's evolved form, Aromatisse, is designed to resemble Divine, probably as a ShoutOut to the JohnWaters film ''PinkFlamingos''.

* A StealthPun example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar in ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited''. During the "Epilogue" episode, as Amanda Waller is recounting the League's last tussle with the Royal Flush Gang, the new Queen, whose make up suspiciously resembled Divine's, turned out to be a ''man''.

* This would apply to most {{Pantomime}} dames.

** Also, in the secret 5.5th level of Impel Down, former "Queen" of the Kamabakka Kingdom has created the New Kama Kingdom, filled with even more okama (including himself)
*** This may not count, as they have "transcended gender" due to their "Queen's" powers, which can change their genders perfectly.

* Appears in ''PokemonXAndY'', which is somewhat fitting for a game named after sex chromosomes. The pink PlagueDoctor bird Pokemon Spritzee's (as yet unnamed) evolved form is designed to resemble Divine, probably as a ShoutOut to the JohnWaters film ''PinkFlamingos''.

* Actor Creator/MishaCollins renewed his wedding vows at the grocery store, in a drag.

* At the Carnival in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalst,_Belgium Aalst]], there are a lot of ''Voil Jeanetten'' [[hottip:*:Loose translation: Dirty Fags; though it is not an insult]]. These are men dressed in drag, but with a lot of beer and some rather weird attributes - like umbrellas with rubber chickens and dead fish tied to them. And for those three days in the year, everyone finds it normal.

* [=RuPaul=] Andre Charles is the most famous drag queen in American media. His [=RuPaul=] persona became famous in TheNineties for being very approachable...if [[ScaryBlackMan scarily tall]], standing at 6'4 ''before'' factoring in the platform heels and big hair. She has released albums and hosted talk shows, and has lately been in the spotlight for the reality show ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', [[XMeetsY essentially]] ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' meets ''ProjectRunway'' meets ''AmericanIdol''...with gender-bending.