Canada's a Drag

Toronto drag queen Allysin Chaynes wants to be your new overlord - and wouldn't that be fabulous?

Librarian by day, Lourdes the Merry Virgin by night. Learn how drag saved this Edmonton artist.

How Vancouver drag icon Berlin Stiller went from serving Big Macs to serving her own "full fantasy."

The gospel of Gay Jesus: meet the Toronto drag artist spreading love across their kingdom.

Winnipeg drag queen Prairie Sky is "a lady who loves gowns but talks like a trucker."

The chameleon queen of Church Street, she's Sofonda Cox and she's here to slay.

Buxom, bearded and beautiful, Alma Bitches is the full-figured heart of Vancouver's drag community.

Real-life brothers out of drag, Icesis and Savannah Couture pushed through a difficult childhood to rise up and give Ottawa a fierce jolt of sister queen realness.

One of Toronto's premier drag performers for over 15 years, Tynomi Banks continues to show the generation of queens that came after her how it's really done.

Big rig mechanic by day, Alberta's reigning Drag Superstar by night, Duke Carson has vitalized Calgary's drag king community with his heavy metal-infused performances and rock hard (prosthetic) abs.

After serving in the Israeli military, Crystal Slippers immigrated to Montreal and found a way to make it her new home, through the power of drag... and the power of Celine Dion.

Irma Gerd is using her drag to build a truly inclusive queer community in St. John's - and she's documenting her process through a unique art project along the way.

A shapeshifting midnight tease, Indigiqueer burlesque and drag performer Mx. Wolverine is using their two-spirit identity to politicize and sexify stages across Canada.

After emigrating from the Philippines to support their family, Francheska Dynamites found love - and drag stardom - in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Vancouver’s premier non-binary “drag thing,” Rose Butch offers a style and sensibility that channels theatrical dandyism in their pursuit of gender euphoria.

A sexually empowered, outrageous version of a happily divorced Acadian aunt, Chiquita Mare uses drag to shed light on issues that exist in the Acadian diaspora.

No one is pushing drag kings into the mainstream quite like Charli Deville, who uses impersonations of Justin Bieber and Freddie Mercury to spotlight a new kind of masculinity.

Edmonton’s self-professed “miniature monster,” Sapphoria is a middle finger to cisnormative society wrapped in a hairy, glittery little box with a big ol’ bow on it.