While
some male music celebrities wear exaggerated feminine clothing as part
of their show, they are not necessarily drag queens. For example, Boy
George wears drag queen style clothes and cosmetics but he once stated
he was not a drag queen. RuPaul is a professional drag queen performer.
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Boy George •
Nicky Wire, bassist of the Manic Street Preachers, has cross dressed
throughout his career. •
Pete Burns, the lead singer of the new wave band Dead or Alive,
cross-dressed in the band's music videos, performances, and in his
appearances on TV. However, Burns is dismissive of the term
"cross-dressing" to describe his style, as said in numerous television
interviews and in his autobiography. •
The late actor and singer Harris Glenn Milstead became known for his
drag persona, Divine. •
Prince, in his early career made androgynous fashion choices; he wore
high-heeled shoes. •
Marilyn Manson often wear androgynous costumes in their performances,
music videos and public appearances. •
Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool cross-dressed during performances
in the late 1990s as part of his stage act. •
Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the American grunge band Nirvana, often
cross-dressed at home and on stage •
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day wrote a song about cross-dressing
called "King for a Day", which was featured in the band's 1997 album
nimrod.. •
Brian Viglione, member of the punk cabaret group The Dresden Dolls, has
cross-dressed since he was 12 years old •
Queen cross-dressed in their video for the song, "I Want to Break Free". •
Annie Lennox is seen dressed in a suit, tie, gloves, and cane in the
music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". •
The rock band Twisted Sister often dresses cross dressed on stages and
photo shoots. •
Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has been known to
crossdress on stage and, occasionally, in videos. •
AC/DC's former singer Bon Scott dressed once to a school girl (as an
opposite to Angus Young) •
Placebo's frontman Brian Molko is androgynous and bisexual, often
cross-dressing on and offstage. •
IAMX (also Chris Corner) cross-dresses in his video for My Secret
Friend along with Imogen Heap. •
Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian male singer who always performs as a female. •
Jeffree Star, male singer and Myspace celebrity, is almost always
wearing women's clothes. •
In Japan, visual kei musicians often appear crossdressing such as
Hizaki and Jasmine You (both from Versailles), Kaya (vocalist of
Schwarz Stein), Bou (ex-guitarist of An Cafe), Yumehito (guitarist of
Ayabie), Tatsuhi (bassist of Zoro) and Aya (Guitarist of Psycho le
Cému). In addition to his musical career, Mana, from the bands Malice
Mizer and Moi dix Mois, is a fashion designer who often cross-dresses. •
U2 wore dresses on the Achtung Baby sleeve notes. •
Led Zeppelin also dressed in drag in one of the pics on Physical
Graffiti, they also hung out with drag queens. •
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is a known crossdresser. •
New York Dolls donned an androgynous wardrobe, wearing disheveled wigs,
smudged lipstick, stilted platforms, painfully tight lurex/satin pants
and crimpoline dresses.