OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – by Jean Marie Davis – Contributor
Anyone within spit-shot probably knows a drag queen even if they’re not completely aware of it. A drag king, on the other hand, is, well, the opposite and a bit less known. It’s the ladies rocking their gender-bending selves that compose this ever-growing community.
While the first “official” drag king contest was held in San Francisco in 1994, a real explosion onto the GLBT scene was in 1999 when the first International Drag King Extravaganza (IDKE) debuted in Ohio. According the IDKE Website, it’s “the largest yearly gathering of drag performers aimed at celebrating gender performance and exploration of gender issues.”