Left to right: Mo B. DIck, El Daña, and Buck Wylde at the King of Drag premier, 2025.
I attended my first drag king show in 2018. Two friends invited me to join them at Spectrum, a queer nightclub in Eugene, Oregon. I’d seen quite a few drag queen shows by then—audiences packed with bachelorette parties and tourists seeking exotic experiences—but the atmosphere at Spectrum was intimate and insurgent. The room pulsed with a collective energy that was raw, defiant, and queer. Cheers were not just celebratory but reverent . . .
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