Chicago Is A Drag Festival
The Chicago Is a Drag Festival is an annual Drag (clothing), drag festival in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the first drag-centered festival in the Midwest. The festival showcases drag acts from all different genres, including Drag king, drag kings, pageant queens, comedy and camp, performers who dance and lip sync, and emcees. Organizers purposely booked a diverse lineup including people of color, trans and nonbinary people, and a mix of longtime performers and newcomers. Performers 2019 The first festival was held in June 2019, which coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Stonewall riot and the 50th anniversary of the Baton Show Lounge. The first event showcased 50 performers including: Imp Queen, Lucky Stiff, and Elektra Del Rio. Emcees included Lucy Stoole, Aunty Chan, Khloe Park and DiDa Ritz of ''RuPaul's Drag Race, RuPaul’s Drag Race''. Special guests included Tiffany Pollard, Tiffany “New York” Pollard and Ts Madison, TS Madison, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ente ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joan Jett Blakk
Terence Alan Smith, also known as "Joan Jett Blakk", is a globally recognized activist, political candidate, and drag queen from Detroit, Michigan. Smith is an African-American actor, writer, and political candidate. Smith, as Joan Jett Blakk first came to national attention when running for president of the United States in 1992. Calling himself a blend of Divine, David Bowie and Grace Jones, Smith began performing in 1974. In 1991, Smith, as Blakk, ran against Richard M. Daley for the office of mayor of Chicago, Illinois. The campaign was chronicled in the 1991 video ''Drag in for Votes''. Smith's next campaign was for the presidency in 1992 under the slogan "Lick Bush in '92!" and documented in the 1993 video of the same name. Smith also ran for president in 1996 with the slogan "Lick Slick Willie in '96!" In each of these campaigns Smith ran on the Queer Nation Party ticket. Following the 1992 campaign, Smith moved to San Francisco, California and joined the African-America ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Events In Chicago
Event may refer to: Gatherings of people * Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest * Event management, the organization of events * Festival, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community * Happening, a type of artistic performance * Media event, an event created for publicity * Party, a social, recreational or corporate events held * Sporting event, at which athletic competition takes place * Virtual event, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment Science, technology, and mathematics * Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click * Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object * Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned * Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Drag Events In The United States
Drag or The Drag may refer to: Places * Drag, Norway, a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway * ''Drág'', the Hungarian name for Dragu Commune in Sălaj County, Romania * Drag (Austin, Texas), the portion of Guadalupe Street adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin Science and technology * Drag (physics), the force which resists motion of an object through a fluid ** Drag equation, a mathematical equation used in analyzing the magnitude of drag caused by fluid flow ** Drag coefficient, a non-dimensional coefficient that is one of the terms in the drag equation ** Aerodynamic drag, the aerodynamic force which resists motion of an aircraft or other object through the air ** Drag crisis, a rapid change in drag coefficient over a small range of Reynolds number ** Drag parachute, a parachute to reduce the speed of vehicles * Park drag, a type of carriage * Police drag, a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water * Drag harrow, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Annual Events In Illinois , in biology
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Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual * Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle A circannual cycle is a biological process that occurs in living creatures over the period of approximately one year. This cycle was first discovered by Ebo Gwinner and Canadian biologist Ted Pengelley. It is classified as an Infradian rhythm, whic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Season 1
The first season of ''The Boulet Brothers' Dragula'' premiered on the Hey Qween streaming service on October 31, 2016, and concluded on February 20, 2017. The series featured nine contestants, from all over California, competing for the title of World's First Drag Supermonster and a cash prize of $10,000. Guest judges included director Darren Stein, and drag performers Peaches Christ and Heklina. It ran for seven episodes, including a special episode incorporating unutilized footage. The season was subsequently remastered, and was distributed by OutTv, Amazon Prime, and SBS Viceland. The winner of first season of ''The Boulet Brothers' Dragula'' was Vander Von Odd ''The Boulet Brothers' Dragula'' is an American reality competition television series produced by Boulet Brothers Productions, hosted by the Boulet Brothers. The series originally aired on YouTube and has aired on Netflix in the United States, OU ..., with Frankie Doom and Melissa Befierce as the runner-up. Frankie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vander Von Odd
''The Boulet Brothers' Dragula'' is an American reality competition television series produced by Boulet Brothers Productions, hosted by the Boulet Brothers. The series originally aired on YouTube and has aired on Netflix in the United States, OUTtv in Canada, and Amazon Prime in the United Kingdom and Australia. Starting with season 4, the series moved to Shudder in all territories. The series will become a Shudder exclusive, with all seasons being hosted on the platform. The series is created and hosted by the Boulet Brothers, who challenge a different set of eleven drag artists from around the world to compete in an underground style drag competition each season. The artists compete for the chance to win a cash prize and the crown of "Dragula - the World’s Next Drag Supermonster". The show celebrates underground and alternative drag art, and bases each episode's challenges on the four principles of the show - "Drag", "Filth", "Horror" and "Glamour". Competitors on the show ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Queen Of The Universe Season 2
The second season of ''Queen of the Universe'' premiered on June 2, 2023, through the streaming service Paramount+. The winner of the second season of ''Queen of the Universe'' was Taiga Brava from Mexico, with Trevor Ashley from Australia finishing as the runner-up. Production On February 15, 2022, a press release from Paramount+ announced that the television series was renewed for a second season. Graham Norton has returned as the host of the series with Trixie Mattel, Michelle Visage, and Vanessa Williams returning as judges, except for Leona Lewis, who was replaced by Mel B. The cast was announced on February 22, 2023, with a total of ten contestants, including Aura Eternal, a runner-up from the second season of ''Drag Race Italia'', and Love Masisi, a contestant from the second season of ''Drag Race Holland ''Drag Race Holland'' is a Dutch reality competition streaming television series based on the American ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. The television series is produc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jazell Barbie Royale
Jazell Barbie Royale (born August 8, 1987, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American transgender beauty pageant winner. In 2019, she became the second American, and the first woman of African descent to win the Miss International Queen. As of 2019, she was an Orlando resident working as a healthcare provider, and a nightclub performer. She was succeeded as Miss International Queen in 2020 by Valentina Fluchaire of Mexico. In May 2022, her nomination was announced at the 2022 WOWIE Awards as part of RuPaul's DragCon in Los Angeles in the category Hottest Hottie Award (The Thirst Follow Award). References Sources * * * * * * * {{Miss International Queen 1987 births Living people African-American beauty pageant winners LGBT African Americans LGBT people from Florida People from Jacksonville, Florida People from Orlando, Florida Transgender entertainers Transgender women Miss International Queen winners ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Precious Brady-Davis
Precious Brady-Davis (born 1985) is a Commissioner at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD), a Chief Strategy Officer at the Center on Halsted, a transgender author, and a climate change and LGBT rights activist. She wrote the best-selling book ''I Have Always Been Me''. Biography Brady-Davis was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was in foster care as a toddler. At age five, she moved in with her grandfather and his wife. In high school, she started to explore her identity. Brady-Davis attended the University of Nebraska. While living in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began performing drag using the name "Precious Jewel". She later transferred to Columbia College Chicago. While in Chicago, she came out as gay. Living in Boystown, she made a name for herself as a performance artist. She launched a million dollar CDC HIV Prevention program at Chicago's Center on Halsted, an LGBTQ community center. There, she was also a mentor of LGBTQ+ teens. She and her ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kahmora Hall
Kahmora Hall (born September 13, 1991) is the stage name of Paul Tran, a Drag (clothing), drag performer most known for competing on RuPaul's Drag Race (season 13), season 13 of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Career Kahmora Hall was the first contestant eliminated from RuPaul's Drag Race (season 13), season 13 of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. She wore an original Bob Mackie dress on the show. Michelle Kim of Them (website), ''them'' magazine said her lip sync to "100% Pure Love" against Denali (drag queen), Denali "will go down in ''Drag Race'' herstory". In 2022, Hall returned to the show as a guest on the 5th episode of season 14, along with Tempest DuJour and Jaymes Mansfield. Hall, along with fellow ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' alumni Ginger Minj and Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté, appeared in ''Hocus Pocus 2''. Personal life Tran studied at Niles West High School and Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University and lives in Chicago. In 2021, he said he has experienced microaggressions in drag comp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Denali (drag Queen)
Denali Foxx (or simply Denali) is the stage name of Cordero Matthew Zuckerman (born April 1, 1992), an American drag performer, figure skater, and choreographer most known for competing on the thirteenth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Born to Jeffrey Alan Zuckerman and Jo Ann Hernandez on April 1, 1992, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Zuckerman was raised by parents of Mexican descent. Zuckerman graduated from University of Utah in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Language and Literature and minor in comparative literature and Korean. Career Zuckerman is a double gold medalist in the U.S. Figure Skating moves and freestyle category and a PSA certified coach. He has skated with Cirque du Soleil, SeaWorld, and Royal Caribbean Productions and choreographed for Team USA figure skaters Mariah Bell, Amber Glenn, and Ashley Cain-Gribble/Timothy LeDuc. Denali competed on the thirteenth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. She was the first contestant from Alaska a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |