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Drag queens, kings, and performers rule the world, and the rest of us just want to be like them.
Sometimes a non-drag celeb will dress up in drag as a part of something like RuPaul's Celebrity Drag Race, but oftentimes, they do it just for the fun. Sometimes it will be a part of a film or TV role, it might be for a music video, it might be for halloween, or it might just be because they want to.
Whatever the reason, we'll always cheer when our favorite queer celebs challenge gender norms and dress in drag, and here are 15 of our favorite examples!
1. Troye Sivan
Sivan got all glammed up for his "One of Your Girls" music videos, becomig the girl of our dreams whenever we get lonely and call.
3. Nathan Lane
In the classic comedy The Birdcage, Lane played one half of a gay couple who's son is getting married to the daughter of a conservative senator. When they invite her parents over for dinner, he dons drag (he is the star of his husband's drag club, after all), pretending to be his son's mother instead of one of his fathers.
4. Kim Petras
In 2023, pop singer Kim Petras introduced the world to Hans, her bi dom top drag king persona!
5. Hayley Kiyoko
Kiyoko served furry green realness when she dressed up as the Grinch with girlfriend Becca Tilley
6. Becca Tilley
Tilley was the Gomez to Kiyoko's Morticia for this great Halloween costume!
8. Lady Gaga
At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, pop icon Lady gaga made pop culture history and shocked the world by showing up to the ceremony in drag as Jo Calderone, even performing her song "You and I" as Jo.
9. Matt Rogers
For his Christmas album, Matt Rogers elisted the help of Trixie Mattell to turn him into Martha May Whovier from How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
10. Joel Kim Booster
In an episode of Netflix' Glamorous, Joel Kim Booster (as well as his Fire Island costars Zane Phillips and Matt Rogers) put on "wretched wretched drag."
11. Freddie Mercury
Legendary singer Freddie Mercury (and his Queen bandmates) got in drag for this music video for their single "I Want to Break Free."
12. Johnny Sibilly
Johnny Sibilly transformed into Miss Piggy on the cover of Buds Digest.
13. Kate McKinnon
Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon performed as a sexy Justin Bieber in this hilarious sketch spoofing Calvin Klein ads.
14. Jonathan Bennett
In 2022, the Mean Girls star dressed up in all-green drag as Elphaba from Wicked, with his hubby Jaymes Vaughan going as Fiyero!
15. Chrishell Stause and G Flip
Chrishell and G Flip flipped it up for Halloween 2023, with Chrishell as Ross Lynch and G Flip as Troye Sivan in drag from the "One of Your Girls" music video.
