“Drag is political.” — Alaska Quote

Drag is political.

If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

Why sleep when we can do drag?

I think I first learned about Stonewall in Queer Theatre class at the University of Pittsburgh. It made me mad that queer people out at bars could be raided and arrested and harassed by the police just for being who they were.

I love being Courtney, but it almost feels like something different to drag for me - it's a part of me, it's not a parody, it's a form of expression for me, a way to give my feminine and masculine sides an outlet.

When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I were also there.

Tidicue is not my real last name. It's just T-D-Q, as in 'The Drag Queen.'

If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.