Drag Quote by Judith Butler

Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion.

— Courtney Act

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very…

— Judith Butler

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

— Kate Bornstein

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the…

— Sasha Velour

“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very…

— Judith Butler

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

— Patti Smith

Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is…

— Alaska

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater…

— Sasha Velour

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of…

— Sasha Velour

I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I'm not in…

— Jinkx Monsoon

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and…

— Sasha Velour

For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.

— Aquaria