![]() ![]() In the drag king world, I didn’t have any experience locally, so I had to go to the internet. I love versatile performers, so I like to dip my toes into comedy, drama and horror, so I brought those aspects to the challenges on the show and it was truly me. It wasn’t to prove anything, it was to keep my interests artistically alive. Yeah, I get bored doing one type of thing over and over again. People who aren’t familiar with the art-form will just assume drag kings are macho men. There’s not one way to be anyone, so I just like to explore all aspects of everything. Sometimes I’m a soft, feminine man who just wants to get fucked in the butt, you know? Totally different avenues to take, because there’s not one way to be a man. ![]() Sometimes I’m super masculine and I’m making fun or critiquing that kind of archetype. I describe my drag as glamdrogynous storytelling. I am fascinated with diversity, so I love tapping into characterisations of everything, every genre, every style, every trope, like you said. What kind of male tropes are you most fascinated by most? I wanted to be back on stage and Landon was the platform I created for myself and I never looked back. I really came to a beautiful blend of all my artistic interests when I was 28, after I had some health scares and I wanted to live my best life. ![]() I’ve been performing and drawing all my life. Landon has slowly been in the creative process since I was little. I want to throw it back a bit: how did your journey as Landon Cider begin? Three wins, no bottom placements… You ate spiders. It feels like my nightmare has come true, and with that, there’s different emotions, you know? It’s overwhelming in the most fantastic way. It is, and it’s HERstory, and it’s phenomenal and I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet because it’s so magical. You’ve not only become the first drag king to win Dragula, but you’re the first drag king winner of a US reality competition series. I’m excited to be awake, sober and to not have a headache!Ĭongratulations on your win. It’s 9am and I’m in celebratory mode, so this is early for me right now. We caught up with Landon to discuss their groundbreaking victory, the drag king narrative being erased from queer culture and why a woman in a construction worker’s clothes and a suit is much “more ironic” than a man in a dress. “We’ve been in the shadows of big dick energy and now we can buy our big dicks so easily on Amazon.” “I want to be a beacon of light to express that kings can reign just as supreme as queens,” Landon told us shortly after his historic win. He is the first drag king to win a reality competition series in the United States. Landon emerged victorious after ten gruelling weeks in which he devoured live spiders, catapulted out of a helicopter and stapled dollar bills to his body. The critically-acclaimed horror-themed alternative to RuPaul’s Drag Race features 10 drag performers, who compete in a variety of disgusting, bloody challenges to win $25,000 and the title of America’s Next Drag Supermonster. Last week, HERstory was made when Landon Cider, a drag king, won the third season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. In an interview with The Guardian, its eponymous host declared that ‘drag loses its sense of danger and its sense of irony once it’s not men doing it’.“We’ve been in the shadows of big dick energy and now we can buy our big dicks so easily on Amazon.” Well-loved though as it is, RuPaul’s Drag Race came under fire for its poor representation of the drag world beyond cis male performers (those whose gender identity and sex assigned at birth are male). Which begs the question: why are we stuck defining drag as a man’s show? If you’re a drag performer who isn’t a cis man, you don’t get the same opportunities or respect Many Shakespeare plays featured female characters, dressing up as men to dupe their peers.Īlthough they would have been played by men pretending to be women pretending to be men, these characters still go to show that the idea of gender being fluid and performative category is neither new nor limited to men presenting as women.Īnd that’s just the Western world – expressions of gender fluidity (going both ways) have had their place in societies across the globe for centuries now. Originating with the practice of male actors performing female roles (since women weren’t allowed on the stage), drag started its life with young men in dresses, impersonating ‘female’ characteristics.īut ‘cross-dressing’ went both ways in the theatre world. The bard was no stranger to playing around with societal conceptions of gender | © Charisse Kenion / Unsplash ![]()
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