Meghna Chowdchury is the female character Robin created to enact what he feels inside. Talking to me he said “I look like a man, a boy, but I feel like you, a woman, I think like you, I would like to gossip hours, and do girly things. Would I like to be a woman? I […] Continue reading → 
Mumbai, Mar 23 (IBNS): Actor Aamir Khan surprises his fans again, this time in a pink salwar kameez, full make-up, a bra and a wig, for a Tata Sky commercial. The perfectionist Khan, was first seen in drag in a cabaret song in his 1995 movie Baazi, ‘Dole Dole Dil Dole’, where he shocked the […] Continue reading → 
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Xiao Cao, a 57-year-old gay man, performs at Manxi park in Shanghai April 8, 2012. China’s gay community has long been on the edges of society but it is gradually becoming more accepted. Cao, who is an unemployed drag queen, is one whose life lifts the curtain on a less romanticised view of Chinese homosexuals. […] Continue reading → 
Outside of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, it’s really quite rare to see a superhero film in which any costumed crusader pursues an explicitly progressive agenda. The consensus amongst genre academics is that introducing realistic politics of any kind into a capes-and-tights stories inevitably leads to a discussion of fascism, as demonstrated by such […] Continue reading → 
Everyone knows that it takes a certain amount of makeup to get that pretty no-makeup look. But what should you use? Where should you put it? We asked RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Manila Luzon to demonstrate a ‘natural’ look for us. Remember, coral lips are natural, because coral exists in nature. And here’s a quotable […] Continue reading → 
Drag queens are a dime a dozen in San Francisco, towering feats of glitter, perfume, fake eyelashes and falsettos. But Asian drag queens are much rarer. In this issue of Urban Profile, I get to sit down with Lychee Minnelli, an accomplished Asian queen who has been doing the rounds in pageantry and performance not […] Continue reading →