Melodie Rousseau is an actress by day, but at night, the 33-year-old Canadian makes herself up as a man -- and takes the stage at Montreal's cabaret halls as a drag king.
In Quebec province, they can be counted on one hand, according to veteran Canadian drag king Charli Deville. At first, she was not interested in performing, but her girlfriend"forced" her, she says with a smile. Drag shows -- usually held in gay bars -- are indeed a place where drag queens, typically men dressed as women, hold court.
That said, attitudes are shifting, if slowly, says Rita Baga, a drag queen who headlines the show at the famed Cabaret Mado in Montreal's gay neighborhood, the Village.- Coming out of the shadows -
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