Quotes About Gender

If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

Like I said, I've always been a lazy drag queen. I'm actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don't hate it. It's fun, but it's not something that I like doing all the time.

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.

A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.

I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.

Well... I don't think everyone can actually be a drag queen, but I think everyone should investigate drag.

I'm too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen.

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

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they've ever been given before, but it's thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.

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.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

I'm determined to only work with women or queer people because it's always a straight dude at the soundboard. I just don't want to do that anymore! It dilutes the fruit-ness!

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

Christine and the Queens

A lot of people like to ask me, 'Ali, how on earth do you balance family and career?' Men never get asked that question. Because they don't.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.