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Drag queen ([dɹæɡ kwiːn]) is a person who wears women's clothing for entertainment or fashion, often adopting exaggerated feminine attitudes and social female roles. Drag queen personalities are usually created by men.

Generally, drag queens dress according to the female gender role; They exaggerate certain traits traditionally associated with women, such as make-up or eye lashes, to create a comic, dramatic, or satirical effect. Other drag artists include drag kings, i.e. women playing the male role; There are faux queens, that is, women who dress exaggeratedly to look like drag queens, and there are faux kings, that is, men who dress in a way that imitates drag kings.

The term drag queen generally describes people who dress in drag style for performance purposes. These performances can be singing or lip-smacking, dancing, attending events such as gay pride parades and drag beauty pageants, or showing off at venues such as cabarets and discotheques. Drag queening is part of gay culture in the West. Drag queens initiated and spearheaded the Stonewall riots in New York City on June 27, 1969, which is why drag queens have become an important tradition at gay honor events. Famous drag queens who are members of a city's gay community can sometimes work as formal or informal spokespersons, presenters, fundraisers, and community leaders.

Drag and transvestism
Most drag queens do this as a hobby, a profession, or an art. A historically and culturally significant number of heterosexual men, especially actors, are drag queens. In addition, many transgender and biological women do drag queen shows.

Drag queens are sometimes referred to as transvestites, although the word "transvestite" has many more connotations than drag queens. Drag queen usually refers to performing by wearing women's clothes without the purpose of being a woman or a woman. It does not usually cover those who cross-dress for the purpose of transvestism.