![]() ![]() ![]() Drag helped me rediscover and embrace my masculine side.” As someone with Black heritage, I was always viewed in a more masculine manner than my white peers. “I went to an overwhelmingly white girls’ school in the countryside where the homophobia was overt and unapologetic. With a background in mental health social work, delving into drag at the age of 24 was always going to be a world reserved for out of hours. But it still felt thrilling to morph into him,” says Jangles, who spent years dreaming about the freedoms that London could offer while growing up in Norfolk.Īs with most drag kings, he says that it’s near impossible to make his artistry a full-time career. “The first iteration of Beau was an awkward, almost grubby-looking fellow. Paak and Stonewall icon Stormé DeLarverie, drag king Beau Jangles is modelling his persona on the cis men who inspire him and the civil rights activists who have paved the way. Pulling inspiration from the worlds of Cab Calloway, Anderson. Recently, he exposed the inappropriate behaviour of “entitled women who touch drag kings during boozy brunches”. While Silver’s success has come a long way in just a few years, it’s his commitment to making the scene fairer and safer that shines through. We’ve built a really beautiful community of people who follow and support us.” “I host and curate Lèse Majesté, an all-drag king cabaret that centres trans and non-binary people. Now he’s part of the beating heart of the capital’s drag king scene. In 2017, Silver attended Man Up!, a drag competition at The Glory pub in east London and a year later, his journey began as part of a Queerlesque course with Rubyyy Jones. Having grown up in Malaga, Spain, his first forays into drag didn’t come until his early thirties, when he started to carve his own path through his nuanced depictions of personalities like Freddie Mercury, Elton John and Village People. “Getting into drag was part revelation and part liberation for my own queer and trans identity,” says London-based Prinx Silver.
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