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The Politics of Drag Queen Performances

There's something freakishly hyper about about Dylan Mulvaney it's like a satire of what a man thinks a teenage girls life is. I've never liked drag or drag queen I understand it was supposed to be exaggerated and it's supposed to be self-aware. Unfortunately some of the activist aspects of it have kind of taken the fun out of drag queens because in the last two or three years drag queen performances have been co-opted as a political statement.

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