Sometimes I’m super masculine and I’m making fun or critiquing that kind of archetype. I describe my drag as glamdrogynous storytelling. I am fascinated with diversity, so I love tapping into characterisations of everything, every genre, every style, every trope, like you said. What kind of male tropes are you most fascinated by most? I wanted to be back on stage and Landon was the platform I created for myself and I never looked back. I really came to a beautiful blend of all my artistic interests when I was 28, after I had some health scares and I wanted to live my best life. I’ve been performing and drawing all my life. Landon has slowly been in the creative process since I was little. I want to throw it back a bit: how did your journey as Landon Cider begin? Three wins, no bottom placements… You ate spiders. It feels like my nightmare has come true, and with that, there’s different emotions, you know? It’s overwhelming in the most fantastic way. It is, and it’s HERstory, and it’s phenomenal and I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet because it’s so magical. You’ve not only become the first drag king to win Dragula, but you’re the first drag king winner of a US reality competition series. I’m excited to be awake, sober and to not have a headache!Ĭongratulations on your win. It’s 9am and I’m in celebratory mode, so this is early for me right now. We caught up with Landon to discuss their groundbreaking victory, the drag king narrative being erased from queer culture and why a woman in a construction worker’s clothes and a suit is much “more ironic” than a man in a dress. “We’ve been in the shadows of big dick energy and now we can buy our big dicks so easily on Amazon.” “I want to be a beacon of light to express that kings can reign just as supreme as queens,” Landon told us shortly after his historic win. He is the first drag king to win a reality competition series in the United States. Landon emerged victorious after ten gruelling weeks in which he devoured live spiders, catapulted out of a helicopter and stapled dollar bills to his body. The critically-acclaimed horror-themed alternative to RuPaul’s Drag Race features 10 drag performers, who compete in a variety of disgusting, bloody challenges to win $25,000 and the title of America’s Next Drag Supermonster. Last week, HERstory was made when Landon Cider, a drag king, won the third season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula.
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