Yas, King: El Daña, Mo B. Dick, and Buck Wylde Talk Three Generations of Drag 

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 . . .