Is drag culture having an identity crisis?

How inclusive can a movement be when it insists on ever more exclusive and hostile definitions of who gets to speak or be seen, asks Monique Verduyn

20 October 2019 - 00:00 By monique verduyn

When RuPaul was interviewed by the Guardian last year, he said that "drag is a
big f-you to male-dominated culture"...

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