Drag up your life, DIVAs! 🌈 BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE VIA APPLE DERRIERES ON INSTAGRAM Calling all Drag Race superfans! Since September’s premiere of season three of Drag Race UK, drag discourse has been at an all-time high. We love our Victoria Scones, Scarlett Harletts and Vanity Milans, but it’s important to celebrate drag performers [….]
Emma Flint tells DIVA why drag kings have earned their place on Drag Race BY EMMA FLINT, IMAGE BY STEPHEN ALLWRIGHT The stroke of midnight on New Years Eve didn’t just mark the end of a tough year – it marked the start of a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Okay, so technically the [….]
Kemah Bob tells DIVA all about this new play sashaying into the Garrick Theatre just in time for Christmas BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS When I jump on my call with Kemah Bob I’m surprised to hear her say, straight off the bat, “Honestly I’m having one of the best years of my life. I’m thriving and [….]
DIVA heads down to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for drag king extravaganza King Of Clubs: King Of Hearts WORDS KATIE HALL, IMAGES MARITA UPENIECE Frankie Sinatra’s drag king night Kings of Clubs has become a well-established must-attend cabaret night on the scene. Borne from inspiration at the emergence of drag king talent, Frankie has created [….]
“Pitch perfect performances meet searing social and political commentary in this most festive of drag treats” BY DANIELLE MUSTARDE. IMAGES HARRY ELLETSON What a gift it was to spend the evening with the wonderful, London-based Pecs Drag Kings for their latest serving of queer cheer – the Christmas-flavoured, Pecsmas. Taking inspiration from Mean Girls to [….]
The drag king comedy group serves up a royally entertaining night that’s as smart as it is funny, says Kat Halstead BY KAT HALSTEAD The UK drag scene is thriving and diversifying, and to prove it, the Bareback Kings are slowly manspreading their way to the top with their first ever hour-long show. Cue the [….]
Working on the door at queer female events across the capital, this week, The Glory’s Man Up, Europe’s biggest drag king battle WORDS BY CLARE HAND, IMAGES BY LYLA JOHNSTON “I reckon she only does it to pick up women,” said The Glory’s Jack Cullen mischievously, as he handed me a clipboard rammed with ripped-out [….]
