00:02You're not doing yourself any goddamn favors.
00:05If you love yourself, give yourself somebody who can love you.
00:10Your titties are kind of what sets you apart as a polished queen.
00:14Your everyday Brooklyn drag queen is going to buy a bra and stuff gym socks in them.
00:20It gives you enough plush and enough pliability to kind of pull off an illusion correctly.
00:25But they don't bounce, they don't jiggle, and if you squeeze them, they don't feel like real tits.
00:31So you've got to get you some actual silicone chicken cutlet replacement.
00:36Now, they come in various degrees of niceness.
00:41You can get a chicken cutlet, which is kind of made for a real woman,
00:45which has a concave situation that's made just for augmenting a natural breast.
00:53And if you want a really small titted look, you can pull that off as a drag queen.
00:58But the realty is the breast forms.
01:02The entire breasts made out of silicone to put on a completely flat male chest.
01:09Those are a little more expensive.
01:12And they're fragile as fuck, too.
01:22I saw my first drag queens when I was 14 years old at this week-long retreat for high school
01:30students about acceptance and loving others.
01:34But there were some drag queens.
01:36There were two of them.
01:38And they were so fucking incredible.
01:42I felt like I was in the presence of a superhero or like a Disney character that I really identified
01:48with or who I really wanted to be.
01:51It was really at that point when we were in a cabin late at night and one of them put
01:58their wigs on me and I did this like sexy pole dance for the first time.
02:01I was 14 years old.
02:02The look was a mess.
02:03On some level, that's what I knew.
02:05It took me almost a decade after that to get around to it.
02:10When I perform, I'm doing the same thing that I would do behind my locked bedroom door when I was
02:188, 9, 10 years old.
02:22So really I've been doing the same thing that I do every night, just not publicly.
02:34I don't see there being any problem with me identifying as a drag queen.
02:41I think it's a perfectly valid gender identity because I have a male body and I enjoy dressing like a
02:52woman.
02:52I have two different forms.
02:55I have 100% and I have 0%.
02:59And that's what makes me a drag queen is that I'm either completely done up or I am in cut
03:06off short shorts and a tank top.
03:08It doesn't make me any less of a man being in drag and doesn't make me any less of a
03:12woman being out of drag.
03:14I think part of being a drag queen is realizing that gender is a completely made up illusion that for
03:22some reason everyone on earth has decided to buy into and can be manipulated completely at will.
03:29That's the thought that I have when I wake up in the morning.
03:33It's the way that I experience my life.
03:38And I don't really see anything, any reason why that's not a perfectly valid gender identity.
03:44After all you put me there, you got this policy.
03:49But I am, I want to thank you, cause you made me that much stronger.
04:12My upbringing was a lot of hiding.
04:14There was a whole lot of hiding in my upbringing.
04:17My bedroom door was locked whenever I could perform and performing was what really made my heart sing.
04:24I think that the reason that I love drag so much and the reason that I love being in drag
04:30is because it allows me to release a part of me.
04:35I thought I had to keep locked inside of me forever.
04:40It is the most emancipating feeling in the entire world to overcome your own fear and your own denial of
04:48yourself.
04:51Ooh, how right are these brows tonight?
