Sasha Velour Quotes

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I love wearing drag.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it.

I think for many people, they think that being in drag means you want to be a girl. Being trans and doing drag is completely different.