They had an inkling that gender play was something they were interested in. Holliday’s initial introduction to drag was at their first Pride in 2016, when they saw Rose Butch perform. “For me, being a Drag Thing means instead of presenting an image of strictly masculinity or femininity in my drag, I get to do both, either, all of the above,” says Holliday. The process of becoming a Drag Thing and crafting a swanky on-stage persona helped Holliday explore their own day-to-day gender identity. Dank Sinatra, draws from a background in musical theatre to create campy, gender-hazy numbers. Drag Things build further on this sense of play, elevating it to sparkly new heights.Įlizabeth Holliday, a.k.a. Queer culture continues to invent a litany of new gender identities - feral femme, floral butch, non-binary forest witch, goth cat dad - to replace the conventional categories of male and female. Basically, Rose Butch and Grimm’s performance asks if being a shimmering sailor weathering a bout of summertime sadness isn’t itself a gender identity. The combination is like an eerily sultry version of "Popeye the Sailor Man." As Drag Things, they fluidly embody archetypes rather than static genders. The duo, with their exaggerated makeup, bedazzled sailor costumes and syncopated dance moves, make for a curious mix of cutting irony and pure sincerity. Immediately, they resurrect the spirit of the ‘80s with a number set to Bananarama’s Britpop hit "Cruel Summer."ĭressed as glittery sailors, with fishnets and swooping eyeliner, the commanding duo struts and pouts in tandem, pulling out umbrellas and then large black fans - one reads “Cruel” and the other “Summer.” Together, they embody summer’s mercurial bouts of rain and heat that make the season unbearable.ĭrag Things Rose Butch and Grimm embody archetypes rather than genders. They’re dancing to club house music from the 1980s and ’90s, as go-go dancers, voguers and drag performers command the evening’s limelight.Īround midnight, amidst a soup of sweaty bodies, local Drag Things Rose Butch and Grimm take the stage. The Saturday night crowd is less likely to attend Sunday’s parade with its corporate affiliations.
The event, hot on the heels of the Dyke March and the Trans March, was organized in conjunction with Pride’s opening weekend. On a recent Saturday, a mixture of queers - dykes, gay men, non-binary and trans folks - gathered to dance to the "Rhythm of the Night" at the Warehouse at Eastside Studios in Vancouver. Although many drag queens and kings are trans and non-binary people who play with gender in complex and surprising ways, Drag Things are performers who explode the gender spectrum. These days, everyone can watch drag queens compete for cash and fans from the comfort of their own living room, thanks to Netflix’s decision to add RuPaul’s Drag Race to its lineup.īut the latest drag innovation that you won’t catch on Netflix is the rise of Drag Things. Please enable JavaScript before you proceed. Your browser either doesn't support JavaScript or you have it turned off. Shubh Patil, Audience Development Analyst, The Tyee If you’re in, click here to start your Tyee Builder membership. This is all in service of putting resources into the hands of our talented, independent journalists and publishing their work for all to read, without locking articles behind a paywall. I spend all of my time finding the best possible ways to ask our readers this: If you find value in what The Tyee publishes, if you want us to be able to do it today and long into the future, will you consider signing up to be a Tyee Builder? You can give one-time, monthly, or annually at a level that works for you, and you can cancel any time. And even to maintain our membership levels, we must continually sign up new supporters as a small number of our recurring supporters’ payments lapse each month. Keeping up with our membership goals means the difference between us growing our newsroom or not. These readers, a few thousand of them, are the only reason why we can publish multiple original stories per day, and pour resources into investigative reporting, which is expensive and very difficult to fund on a local scale.
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