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A faux queen or bio queen is a "drag queen trapped in a woman's body"^[2] sometimes called a "biologically-challenged" drag queen or a "female female impersonator"^[3] or even a "female impersonator impersonator"^[4] who simply is biologically female. Like traditional drag queens and drag kings these performance artists play with traditional gender roles and gender norms to educate and entertain. Faux queens can appear alongside drag kings at lesbian drag shows and are interchangable with "regular" (biologically male) drag queens as emcees, performers, hostesses, and spokesmodels.^[5] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 Ã— 1704 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 Ã— 1704 pixel, file size: 2. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Well-known drag artist Lypsinka. ... Drag kings are female-bodied or female-identified persons who either temporarily attempt to pass as men, usually off-stage, or perform male characters in often ostentatious mens clothes on stage, often with hilariously exaggerated macho attitudes, or show and/or perform a mixture of male and female characteristics, both... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... A bagpiper in military uniform. ... A drag king performance troupe Drag kings are female-bodied or -identified performance artists who dress in masculine drag as part of their routine. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... A Master of Ceremonies or MC (sometimes spelled emcee) is the host of a staged event or other performance. ...

For some it becomes a new avenue to redefine post-modern feminism, faux queen Ms. Lucia Love stated, "Drag queens would be nowhere without women."^[6] For others it simply is about dressing up and having fun.^[7] In the words of faux queen Hoku Mama Swamp "I was born to love faggots, queens, and trannies, and have slowly been morphing into them since childhood."^[8] Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies that are concerned with the impact of cultural, political, and economic practices and inequalities on discrimination against women. ...

In San Francisco, the first ever Faux Queen Pageant was produced as a benefit by the Klubstitute Kollective^[8] to raise funds and provide a space for the performers who, at the time, weren't always welcome in regular drag venues. Pageant organizer Ruby Toosday had "friends who got fired (from drag clubs) for being women...it seemed like we had definitely hit a nerve.^[3] Contestants were judged on drag, talent, and personality by an all-star panel of judges^[9] and the winner helped "femcee" the following year. The pageants were held from 1996 to 2005. Although there is interest in holding another pageant^[10] some question if the need is there since faux queens have integrated into modern drag circles.^[11] A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ...

"Girls will be boys will be girls" is the subtitle for the comedy film Connie and Carla which is amongst the high-profile popular culture references to faux queens.^[12] Connie and Carla is a 2004 film directed by Michael Lembeck. ...

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