Drag in the Peg

Save a Stallion, ride a cowboy! For the grand finale of season 2, we're trying something different: a video interview with one of Winnipeg's most beloved performers. Anita Stallion, Matron of Club 200 and 2020 Aunty of the Year, dishes on her history with the Imperial Court, Club 200 throughout the ages, her timeless approach to drag and her 20+ year legacy.

#fuckafrenchtip! Entrepreneur, nail expert and party-starting princess Purple Haze discusses working through mental illnesses, the stigma surrounding HIV, finding the Sunshine Bunch, meeting her other half Soleil Midowne, founding local drag business Accent’aigu Nails, and the infamous death drop to end all stunts on the penultimate episode of season 2.

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Fun, fresh and fibromyalgic: meet Miss Assuma Gender! Assuma opens up on her beekeeping background, performing in drag at last year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival, pronouns in and out of drag, finding a first name, the lenses through which we see drag, and going head-to-head with one of our city's most legendary performers in a pageant.

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What’s a queen to a drag princess? Winnipeg’s youngest drag queen Olivia Limehart joins us to dish on what’s it like to be an 11-year-old drag queen, drag spaces for minors, how she found drag and some of her fave numbers to date. Also, her parent - fellow drag performer Guncle Smokey Trixx Star - joins us to talk raising a drag queen, parenting a queer child and finding drag after his child on this episode of Drag in the Peg.

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Viva Las Vegas! The original Winnipeg drag king Carlos Las Vegas talks representation of drag kings in mainstream media, touring for and starring in the documentary “Ladies as Gentleman: Drag Kings on Tour”, co-creating Kingdom Magazine, debuting as a drag king 27 years ago, discovering the International Drag King Extravaganza, founding the Genderplay Cabaret and The Fantasia Affair, passing the torch to Hari Vijaijay, and the factors leading to Carlos hanging up his crown and retiring as a drag king.

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Half dragon, half superhero, all incredible: it's Lady Quinnzarr! Winnipeg's premiere weird-drag genius opens up on mastering the saxophone, studyinng capoeira martial arts, finding the Like That program at Sunshine House, her wild world of drag inspiration, Lord Razznniuq, and more on her episode of Drag in the Peg.

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Eat your heart out, Jesus: the King of Kings is in attendance! Emperor XX Dusty Rhodes addresses his subjects on standing up for consent, the legacy and the future of the Court System, how working in gay bars informed his worldview, why he isn’t a fan of performing, guiding Reign XX and more.

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Ever wonder what the inflatable tube guy would look like in drag? Jaryd's here to deliver! Jaryd talks rejecting gender norms for drag, transitioning from turning club looks to performing onstage, the life and death of Sunday Masc, working with local music legend Begonia and Synonym Arts Consultation, doing the splits in roller skates and more on his episode of Drag in the Peg.

In the West End of Winnipeg, born and raised… here’s Soleil Midowne! The polyglot queen of Winnipeg stops in to chat about the politics of drag, her intentional approach to drag, Euro-centric beauty standards and the narrative of our city’s drag timeline in her episode of Drag in the Peg.

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YYYEEEAHHH DADDYYY!!! Season 2 starts off RIGHT with Winnipeg’s favourite MILF, the pink puta goddess herself, Breyanna Burlesque! Breyanna opens up about her 20-year drag career, the history and future of drag in Winnipeg, her wildest days in drag and so much more!

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Drag isn't, and has never been, just about men wearing dresses. But with expanding borders and blurred lines between performance art forms, how exactly can we define what drag is? Do we need to? And, if we do or if we don’t, who’s affected? On the first episode of Queeries, our new off-season panel series discussing the most pressing ideas and issues of drag, we’re bringing together four incredible drag artists with vastly different origins, perspectives, ideas and interpretations of drag – Moxie Cotton, True North, Anita Stallion and Lady Quinnzarr – to weigh in on the question.

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Season one of Drag in the Peg closes with one of the most esteemed queens in the city: an academic, an advocate, a CBC Manitoba Future 40 Finalist and a tireless organizer. Prairie Sky talks her hilarious introduction to drag, the Like That program at Sunshine House, merging her Indigeneity with drag, the ebbs and flows of drag in mainstream culture and so much more in our grand finale.

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Once Foxy, always Foxy! The dancing diva of Winnipeg, Foxy Beast, joins us for the second-last episode of season 1 to talk her upbringing in and out of drag, drag families, the many evolutions of Foxy, fostering new growth, the magnetism of Winnipeg and so much more.

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SQUEEEEEEE!!! Winnipeg's bearded neon cartoon queens, Pictoria Secreet & Gloria Booths, explain their three principles of drag, how the dynamic duo met, marching in Pride and taking the piss out of drag and so much more.

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She's minty fresh and phat as hell! Winnipeg's clown princess Peppermint Phattie talks building a drag brand, breaking gender apart, her friendship with Ruby Chopstix, the future of her drag and blush. Plus - Mama Phattie, Peppermint's birth mother Adrienne Wilson, stops in to talk about parenting a drag queen and encouraging your children.

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Did someone order a circus clown? The legendary Tyra Boinks talks her comedy career, her sold-out Fringe show, consent in the drag scene, the thick skin that comes with drag, etiquette at drag shows and so much more.

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Double, double, toil and trouble! Cake, the current reigning Miss Club 200 and the Wicked Witch of West Broadway herself, is here to discuss her drag aesthetic, the self-realization that comes with drag, the inspirations behind her legendary makeup and so much more.

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The ravishing red diamond diva is here! Cheron Sharelike explains her love for Cher, touring Canada and the U.S. in drag, the discrepancy between treatment of RuGirls and local queens and the darkest moment of her drag career and so much more.

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You’ve been blessed with the unholy trini-tea. Stara David, Moxie Cotton and Dirt of local drag production team Slunt Factory talking creating a platform for new drag performers, swathing a path of freaky drag, navigating the scene as non-binary AFAB performers, pronouns in and out of drag and so much more. 

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The witchy mother of the Lamour Coven is in the house. Vida Lamour DeCosmo talks the toxic early days of drag in our city, being a drag queen in the 90s, her sprawling drag family, the rise and fall of gay clubs in Winnipeg and so much more. 

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Crazy, conceptual, comical: meet Lita Takeela! Lita discusses her legendary sense of humour, her makeup brand LT Cosmetics, the new era of crazy drag in Winnipeg, her namesake Lita the wrestler, being Winnipeg’s drag nanny and so much more. 

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She's the queen of pulling moves and popping knees: it's Ruby Chopstix! Ruby explains being a young queen in a city full of drag history, rejecting Eurocentric beauty trends in drag makeup, Asian representation in drag and media, and her experience in the Prairie Theatre Exchange drag workshop class on the third episode of Drag in the Peg.

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