Editing Drag queen (section)

=== South Africa ===
Drag in South Africa emerged in the 1950s in major cities such as [[Johannesburg]] and [[Cape Town]].<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web |title=Drag in South Africa: The Art of Expression |url=https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/drag-in-south-africa-the-art-of-expression |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=Queer Majority |date=30 September 2020 |language=en-US |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202212640/https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/drag-in-south-africa-the-art-of-expression |url-status=live }}</ref> It started in the form of underground pageants which created a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in [[Apartheid]] South Africa, where people could be punished by law for being gay.<ref name="auto3"/> Being gay was not legalized in South Africa until 1998, so pageants, such as the famous Miss Gay Western Cape, did not become official until the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCormick |first=T. L. |title=The history of drag in South Africa still plays out at modern pageants |url=http://theconversation.com/the-history-of-drag-in-south-africa-still-plays-out-at-modern-pageants-120838 |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=The Conversation |date=7 November 2019 |language=en |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202212641/https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-drag-in-south-africa-still-plays-out-at-modern-pageants-120838 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Discrimination against drag is widespread in South Africa, and drag queens face the threat of violence by being openly gay. Furthermore, there is not language to explore queerness in [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]], one of the indigenous languages of South Africa.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Olwage |first1=Lee-Ann |last2=Ingber |first2=Sasha |date=2019-09-20 |title=PHOTOS: Drag Queens In South Africa Embrace Queerness And Tradition |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/20/761990035/photos-drag-queens-in-south-africa-embrace-queerness-and-tradition |access-date=2022-12-02 |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202212639/https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/20/761990035/photos-drag-queens-in-south-africa-embrace-queerness-and-tradition |url-status=live }}</ref>