In 2016, Rik E, best friend Chris Jay, and burlesque performer Lexie Starre created Pretty Boi Drag, a troupe designed to support and promote drag kings of color. Performing in DC and nationally, ...

The drag kings don’t just stick to the stage at Pretty Boi Drag’s shows. They’re also in the crowd, playfully dancing on the laps of spectators or on tables as they serenade the audience.

Vital Matters announced the Queer Climate Cabaret at Creative Alliance this October, featuring workshops on drag performance, writing, and the intersection of climate and queerness.

Pretty Rik E, a D.C.-based drag king, talks to host Aymann Ismail about what it means to treat masculinity as a performance. Rik E is part of a group called Pretty Boi Drag, ...

This year’s Best of Gay D.C. Best Drag King winner answers 20 gay questions . Pretty Rik E was born pretty innocuously. Erika Lewis had a friend about five ...

Pretty Boi Drag hosts First Thursdays: Kings and Queens, a new queer monthly party, at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) on Thursday, April 5 from 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Ryder is a fellow member of the Long Live Kings collective, which puts on a monthly show called King Sized as well as collaborating on larger projects. The web series, which consists of five episodes ...

The kid, Drag King said "I'm a pretty natural dancer. But these other guys aren't. It's a lot of work for them but you know I try to school them up the best I can to get them pumped up.

Make way for the king. Seven fierce drag kings are gearing up to strut their stuff on April 14 (8 p.m.) at the William Way to benefit the annual Philly Dyke March in June. Philly’s own Liberty ...

Houston Gendermyn, a self-deemed “gender-variant” troupe formed around 2007 with help from fellow drag troupe Kings and Things in Austin, performed frequently in the city in the 2010s.

Drag kings are often token performers on a bill, something that gets real lonely, real fast. ... and I think it’s going to be pretty cool.” King-centric Shows in Chicago ...