This topic came to mind after reading the “best rock & roll names” thread. Just looking down the campy adopted aliases (“Siouxsie Sioux” for example) put me in mind of drag queen names.
Famous or Semi-famous Drag names:
Cashetta
Amanda (“A man, duh!”)
Candy Darling a.k.a. Candy Warhol
Lady Bunny
Robin Kradles
Lipsynka
Divine
RuPaul
the Lady Chablis
Drag names of not-very-famous-at-all ‘queens’:
Chlamydia Burns
Penny Arcade
Lotta Balls
La Hottotrotta
Chisa Chu (“She’s a Jew!”)
Gonnhor Rita
What’s the best drag names (by famous folks, or just names you’ve heard) YOU know?
Harvey Feirstein’s drag names included Virginia Hamm, Bertha Venation and (my personal favorite) Bang-Bang la Desh
Alexis Arquette’s drag persona is Eva Destruction
The most controversial drag queen is the cross-dressing and cross-racial Shirley Q. Liquor (she has some very enthusiastic black fans [including RuPaul and Whoopi Goldberg] but has infuriated others- several of her appearances have been picketed, some even cancelled)
Oh, and of course who could forget Miss Coco Peru (*“It buuuuuuuuuuurns!”) or the entire cast of the tasteless and budgetless but feckin’ hilarious Girls Will Be Girls (An abortion? Puh-leez! I’ve had more kids pulled out of me than a burning orphanage!".)
Now I simply have to see the film Girls Will Be Girls - I don’t suppose it is showing on Sundance or IFC channels? And I doubt my local video store will be carrying it…looks like I am off to Amazon dot com.
I knew a guy who entered a drag beauty contest as the contestant from Las Vegas, Miss Penny Slots.
Some of the FABULOUS queens who’ve traipsed through San Fran:
Anita Martini
Landa Lakes
Helena Handbasket
Dee Vorce (“but my friends call me Sue the Bastard”)
Suppositori Spelling
Wilma Fingerdoo
Visa DeKlein
Lois Commondenominator
Jen Derless
Rachel Tension
Sharon Needles
(and most of these I ripped from a friend of mine, Trauma Flintstone…)