Editing Drag king (section)

==Drag community==
[[Image:Murray Hill by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Murray Hill (performer)|Murray Hill]], [[New York City]] comedian and downtown [[performance artist]].]]

A British lesbian [[cabaret]] organization called [[Lesburlesque]] made it part of their mission to promote drag kings on the wider British cabaret circuit. Their founder Pixie Truffle gave an interview to the ''Guardian'' newspaper in the United Kingdom on her desire for drag kings to close the gap with queens and with male stand-up comedians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/shortcuts/2012/aug/26/drag-kings-standup-women-comedy |title=The Guardian Interview with Pixie Truffle about the rise of Drag Kinging |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 August 2012 |access-date=26 August 2012}}</ref>

Similar to some drag queens who prefer to be seen as actors—like [[Justin Bond]] and [[John Epperson|Lypsinka]]—some drag kings prefer not to be pigeon-holed by the ''drag king'' label. "I think when people assume that somebody is [[queer]], or different, or [[transgender|trans]], they always want to put something before their name," said [[Murray Hill (performer)|Murray Hill]] in an interview. "And that is what drag king has been. Why can not you just call me a [[comedian]] like [[Jerry Seinfeld]] is called a comedian?"<ref>{{Cite news|last=Brune|first=A. M.|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/28/murray-hill-comedian-drag-king-transgender-performance|title=Murray Hill: 'I'm more than a drag king. Why can't you just call me a comedian?'|date=2016-03-28|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2020-03-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In recent years,{{when|date=July 2023}} some drag king performers have adopted other terms to describe their own performance styles, particularly if they deviate from the more traditional forms of "kinging". Common names including "gender blurring" acknowledge the merging of both male and female traits in the performances. Vancouver performer Rose Butch adopted the ambiguous label "drag thing".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/kings-of-the-night-new-era-of-gender-dynamics-offers-drag-kings-a-brighter-spotlight-1.3467418|title=Kings of the night: New era of gender dynamics offers drag kings a brighter spotlight|last=Friend|first=David|date=June 20, 2017|website=CTV News/The Canadian Press|access-date=June 26, 2017}}</ref> Long-time performer Flare called the stage of drag king styles that emerged in Toronto's scene in the mid-2010s as "unicorn drag".<ref name=":0" />