Bob the Drag Queen Teaches You Drag Slang | Vanity Fair

hello Vanity Fair my name is Bob the drag queen I'm here to teach you some drag slack a little bit of lingo a little bit of the Queen's English a bar queen is a queen who has made her career in the bars in the gay bars their club kids and there's bar Queens I am a proud bar Queen his attendants look at that bar Queen over to walk around with a fistful of singles no tea no shade is when someone's like listen uncle look beside this is the reality I'm not being Shady I'm just being real mistake no tea no shade this color is not good on you clock all right now this is has some problematic undertones to it I wanted everyone to know that o'clock is when someone identifies something in you that people think you were trying to hide for example what something goes I'm missing your hairline it's clocked that means like I can see the legs on your wig and that is a wig like you've been like we talked your way how the body was made popular from RuPaul's Drag Race Season six and it is in reference to specifically adore Delano didn't wear a course and she said that she has hog body when she's not wearing a corset so it's just like having a beer belly it's the game version of having a beer belly eleganza extravaganza so holocrons extravaganza is essentially a way of saying when something is extremely elegant and extravagant so you or you like a big ball this is um this is like a derivative of ballroom culture but it's not directly from ballroom culture this is essentially like talking like people involve mug is the face this is the mug this is where the mug lives so someone that goes I'm gonna get a close-up of that mug what they're saying is I would like to get a shot of a close on your face serving face when you are serving face you are giving the mug you are giving the look is essentially like walking the base category is that it's not just like having a beautiful face it's a lot of this it is this thing is serving the face we should give you one of these you'll see a queen like doing her makeup that you don't know miss our face tonight Heather okay Heather is is a term in reference to the movie heathers and if you are a Heather you're a very pretty girl you're one of the cool girls so the Heather's are the cool girls and you just call each other power hey ever okay Heather and Heather perks first I pop her eyes the term purse first myself it is a phrase that came up with her drag race I was asked by a thorgy how I walked into the runway my very first time and I said I walk out price first and then it kind of became like a catchphrase it's just like it's just like a phrase you shout out when you're feeling yes mistake prosperous first first ID a boobie bib or a breastplate is probably the most proper term for it is like look I'm not an L so describe it looks like breasts like large breasts like a necklace imagine if there was a necklace and breasts combined into one you spread it behind your neck and then you use a word necklace to conceal the sea hunty is essentially the word of honey it's just like oh yes honey she's feeling it tonight painted so when you do your makeup and it looks extremely good you are paint it like your makeup is so OVAs so the top you say mistake you are painting on this knife squirrel-friends it's just girlfriend's like it's just a goofy way of saying girlfriends so you know these are my squirrel friends you love hanging out just like like chittering each other together like squirrels do I don't know this gross chat together I don't know how squirrels communicate showboating oh this is necessarily a drag term but I got a queue to show but on my season of RuPaul's Drag Race and showboating is basically gloating about your talents you're someone who really believes in their talents and expresses them and has no qualms about letting everyone know that you truly are that in my opinion most was a and you really draw it out longer so it's like a a affectations of the word and it usually lives by himself like that is oh that's the whole sentence boots so I will use it a tennis first you'll say grow this outfit is fierce piece so it real like you say this outfit is very fierce but in drag you would say this output is fierce boots well sometimes someone someone will say like crow that show was amazing you can just say boots then you have like the house down boots now the house down boots is like very very very like girl this show is fierce that house down boots if I can Spanish there's something like a gland or gonna be see more organized easy easy mom it's like the boy you guys easy zzs is like the bigger and bigger a gift and then it's what the house down boots is I don't speak Spanish I just learned that in Spanish class in high school 20 years ago body Adi Adi now body Adi Adi is usually referred to when a person has what people would consider an hourglass figure breaths going out hips going in weights going in that hips coming out again honestly can be any extreme version of any body type so if you're like slim and you're really slim that's body Adi Adi if you're muscular you're really muscular or really beefy or really curvy that's what body Adi Adi is a meaty tuck so a meaty tuck is something that a lot of drag queens maybe don't want to go for some directly do go for tucking is the art form of taking your genitals and pushing them back to create an illusion of not having a penis that's usually what tucking is an immediate occurs when you don't execute that incredibly well so you would say miss thing tonight tonight I got a meaty tuck don't don't pan down don't point the camera down the Tuck is a meaty on this evil cooking and baking now cooking and baking refers to when you do your face you will take powder and you'll highlight this area this at your t-zone this area here down here and you leave it on while you're like preparing there by getting your outfit together and it punches up the highlights in your makeup so they'll be like girl why is your face covered in powder home baking drag dark now a drag daughter is someone that you teach track to a lot of time that is specifically reserved for when you put someone in drag for their first time they'll be your drag daughter and a lot of other times it's more for more you have to like basically submit a request to be someone's dragged ours I have a lot of drag moms my official drag mamas peaches Christ she didn't teach me drag which is tell me a lot about producing and how to be a business person in drag but then again also peppermint bebe Zahara Benet sherry vine Bianca Del Rio all taught me a lot about drag just do me watching them and observing them but I'm not officially their drag on I just learned one feeling the fantasy I mean to me this seems self explanatory what feeling the fantasy is so a big part of drag is a fantasy like I quit is image of myself where I am this extremely wealthy heiress to enough to later not errors like I am the owner of the estate she is feeling the fantasy to it's gonna be one of those nice so giving them lighting is like when you feel invigorated because you saw a great performance you saw a great picture you saw a great discussion you loved someone's post invigorated you your life feels more full steppers is giving you life so I'll be like girl I saw once right now I when I first moved to New York City I went down to Barracuda I saw her be on stage turning the party and she was giving me life glamazon so a glamazon is a big glamorous lady not that that to be a lady but that's kind of like the connotation to it like a family presenting larger-than-life lady who's really glamorous so it's a combination or as glamorous and Amazon and you can find them together and you say well she's a glamazon she is a you know big first lady relying on body this is a phrase that was made popular by Michelle visage stop relying on that body meaning you are using your neck-down physical attributes to compensate for a lack of performance for some other aspect of your your career untuck so I'm tucking is the act of you remember about me Tucker Lee y'all remember me tuck I'm tucking is the undoing of that so at the end of the night or in the middle of your gig depending on how things are going down there you'll untuck and you'll you'll free the bird from the cage the children so this goes back to giving life mom and children basically children's audience or people receiving your arms so you say Oh miss thing she's gonna give you children life tonight she's gonna do a good job for the audience it's so funny but communities are all secondary like I'm just so used to saying how much things she's turning for the children like she's out there and giving it or doing a really good job so the children so the audience can enjoy themselves G of everything and this is a phrase from Junior who is one of the most iconic people in the history of ballroom this is from Paris is burning since some of the most iconic lines in queer history ever for example if you ever heard the word desert opulence you own everything o tu l e NCE opulent it is referring to someone's like when they look rich or they look fierce and it's like bear in mind the rumor and that person owns everything in this book that's kinda long a mask envelope is a Spanish word and it's like girl that was scandalous I mean yeah I think this brief seems pretty a drag king is someone so listen well let's break it down to drag and then drag queens and then drag kings shall we let's break it all down drag is blurring the gender line and creating art they don't have to be singing and it doesn't be dancing or them to be comedy if you are blurring the gender line and you're creating art you're then engaging in drag so for example if a citizen gendered woman is doing is dressing up in a high drag what she's doing is essentially dressing up as a hyper woman very hyper thin or dressing up like a man doing dressing like a woman therefore you are blurring the gender line so in order to be a drag queen you don't have to be assigned male at birth you don't have to be a man you know you can just be doing drag in order to be a drag king you're doing the version but it's more skewed toward masculinity so if someone's doing a hyper masculine performance of masculinity that person is a drag king more often than not drag queens are usually a fast meaning assigned female at birth all right listen that's the full fantasy that's the diction and that isn't that oh yeah Miriam Webster this is Bob the drag queen unabridged full dictionary honey so if you learn something

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Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 07 2020