Today, many kings believe they have been both intentionally and unintentionally sidelined by the same misogyny that affects women in all aspects of our society. Into the 20th Century, performers like Marlene Dietrich presented female cross-dressing in cinema and on an international stage. But kings have as much of a historical foundation as queens do an example of this is Vesta Tilley, a prominent drag king performer in Victorian-era England. You might assume this is because drag kings are a relatively new sub-category of drag. In doing so, they engendered a new wave of pro-gay sentiment.īut while drag queen culture has recently seen an explosion in of both participants and audience size, the kings have not enjoyed the same level of cultural permeation. In the 1990s, the Topp Twins’ drag king characters Ken and Ken introduced the wider New Zealand public to drag culture. We can’t help thinking that anywhere else in the world we would have been killed for trying to do that.” “When we arrive at events like that, we always have a big smile on our faces. “They get the lesbians who dress up as men,” Lynda says with her signature throaty laugh. “There are 600 blokes who go that event, and who do they get to perform for them?
In 2010, Jools and Lynda Topp - better known as the Topp Twins - were invited to MC a male-only duck shooting event in rural Southland as their renowned male impersonation characters, Ken and Ken.
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