Pratt said all of the drag kings they’ve met have their own unique looks and spins on masculinity. Grey Pratt, 26, draws a blue beard on their face to become their drag king character Sawyer InHerpants, at their home in Denver, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Pratt contoured their face to create a sharp, angular jawline and cheekbones and painted large, raised blue eyebrows over their natural ones and set it all with hairspray - a quick-fix substitute since they’d run out of their usual setting spray. “I mean, I’m authentic,” they added with a laugh. He’s a very extroverted, authentic, out-there, outgoing person that I absolutely am not. “I’ve enjoyed being Sawyer and having him. “(Drag) kind of helped solidify who I was and how I identified myself, and it was a fun way of figuring out who I was,” Pratt said. Yet, drag has been pivotal to helping Pratt find their identity, too. Looking into their bathroom mirror in their downtown Denver apartment, using bright blue body paint to draw on the beard that would soon help transform them into Sawyer, they explained that the drag persona is completely different from their own personality. Pratt (who uses “they/them” pronouns) would describe themselves as an introvert. A drag king on the side, Pratt plays their drag persona Sawyer InHerpants at various events in Denver. Grey Pratt, 26, is at their home in Denver, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Just a few hours before the Aurora performance on June 11, Sawyer InHerpants was Grey Pratt, a 26-year-old nonbinary Denverite with a love for musical theater and rock climbing. Unlike drag queens, drag kings are mostly women and nonbinary individuals who often don fake beards, bind their chests, and sharpen their features to perform at venues and events dressed as men.Īt least seven drag kings will perform in segments throughout the duration of Denver PrideFest, which takes place in Civic Center park on Saturday, June 25, and Sunday, June 26. If you missed it, not to fear: The performance will be repeated at Denver Pride by Sawyer InHerpants, one of Denver’s local drag kings.ĭrag kings are a group of performance artists who adopt a masculine persona. Drag king Sawyer InHerpants, played by Grey Pratt, performs at the drag event Spill the Tea, a fundraiser for Aurora Pride, in the parking lot of a JCPenny in Aurora on June 11, 2022. Stiffly, with each of his wrists connected to his shoes by elastic bands, the performer moved like a puppet to the opening song of his set: “I’ve Got No Strings” from Disney’s “Pinocchio.” Then, in an instant, the music changed into a mashup of *NSYNC songs, to which the performer lip-synced along, with dance moves straight out of a “Bye Bye Bye” music video.
On a sweltering June Saturday in the parking lot of a mall in Aurora, a performer with a beard, mustache and hair the color of a blue Jolly Rancher made his way onto a stage that had been set up for a “Drag Picnic” Pride Month event called Spill the Tea. I actually think that gender clash brings more creativity.Tuesday, August 30th 2022 Home Page Close Menu Our venue celebrates that kind of diversity, as well we should. "Women are becoming big drag hits, which is refreshing, and a lot of my current faves are females. "The diversity in the drag scene is really thriving right now," he says. James Telford, manager of one of London's leading drag venues, The Glory, would also like to see so-called "bio queens" and trans and non-binary performers included on Drag Race. The polish which a show like RuPaul’s Drag Race venerates is at odds with a lot of contemporary drag, as well as UK drag’s basis in working-class, regional culture.” Tom Rasmussen, an author and non-binary queen told The Guardian: “A lot of the UK’s very best drag can be found in basement bars. Drag competitions should be based on talent, not on genitalia." We don’t need RPDR in the UK, not as it is right now. make damaging and out of sync with what’s actually happening in local communities. In December, cis female drag performer Lacey Lou wrote in an article for Gay Star Times: "The lack of representation of groups such as drag kings, cisgender women transgender women. "Drag loses its sense of danger and its sense of irony," Ru said, "once it’s not men doing it." In critics' sights was the limited gender spectrum that has so far been presented on Drag Race, as well as comments RuPaul made (and later apologized for) in The Guardian in March 2018. But as the search for queens got underway, criticism from the country's tight-knit drag community started to seep into the conversation. When the announcement was made that RuPaul's Drag Race was getting a British version, the response on social media was rapturous.
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