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Queer New World: Meet Brooklyn's Goldie Peacock
Huffington Post // March 25, 2014
This is the fourteenth installment in an ongoing series that explores drag culture and the nightlife scene in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the past several years, following the large-scale exodus of artists across the East River and into northern Brooklyn, those engaged in drag culture in this outer borough have created a new, queer world entirely their own...
Goldie Peacock, Drag King Glamdrogyne
One+Love // July 7, 2014
I first chose to dress up in drag, in part, as a challenge to myself because of how femme-presenting I was at the time. I had always loved transforming and taking on different personas and I wanted to see if I could pass as a man for an evening. I knew that I loved dressing up in various guises, but I had no idea that I would become the androgynous genderbender that I am today...
Heat-Packing Drag Shows Taking Over Brooklyn
Broadly // April 5, 2016
Peacock is the perfect example of how some in this new crop of performers pull back the curtain on gender so much, that they enter the world of the "glamdrogynous"— glamorous without specifically adhering to either gender expectations, but instead, flirting with titillating ideals from both ends of the spectrum.
When Makeup Blends Gender
Refinery29 // June 4, 2014
People who use cosmetics and clothes to perform masculinity — otherwise known as drag kings — have their own subculture and history. They are also uniquely positioned to play with the complexity of how we understand what it means to be a man. It's more than just some well-placed stubble (though that can help). So, to get a better understanding of what goes into a drag performance and how makeup is used, we talked to Goldie Peacock, a professional drag king...
Lipstick to Smash Gender Norms and Outlast Make-outs
Autostraddle // September 29, 2015
"I have once again embraced lipstick, upon the occasion. I think that the flourishing dandy culture of NYC has encouraged me, and many other queers, to incorporate all sorts of ornamentation into our lives, as opposed to shying away from certain adornments and labeling them “too this” or “too that.” It’s all fair game. As a performer, painting my face is a part of my lineage and there’s no good reason to leave the lips out of that ritual. Also: lipstick can look really fierce."
Learn to Rock Like a Peacock
Curve Magazine // June 24, 2013
Inspired by some of the great drag performers of all time like Diane Torr, Dred, Murray Hill and of course RuPaul,Goldie Peacock is a Brooklyn-based drag king that’s been strutting across venue stages from Portland, Maine. to New York City, since discovering their sumptuous swag as a freshman at Oberlin College. Named best dance performer by The Portland Phoenix in 2009, Peacock recently shared some of their dapper king skills in a workshop held in Bushwick, Brooklyn...
The 100 Most Stylish dapperQs
dapperQ // July 29, 2013
GQ regularly publishes a list of most stylish cis-men. Autostraddle recently posted their list of hot 100 girls who like girls. Vogue has their list of most stylish cis-women. So, isn’t it high time that some stylish dapperQs get some well deserved media recognition and visibility? Here is our list of the 100 most stylish dapperQs. (In no particular order; this is not a ranked list.)
The Rest is Drag
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies // March 23, 2010
For 22-year-old Knathan Higgins, also known as Bunny Wonderland and 24-year-old Caribeth Klemundt, Goldie Peacock, drag is a way of life. Not only a hobby or a job, they consider drag a form of social activism, a way to make a statement and a means to break away from normative gender roles. Both Bunny and Goldie believe themselves, and their drag identities, are one in the same. Goldie says, “as the great Ru Paul said, and probably a lot of other great drag queens said before him ‘We’re all born naked, the rest is drag’.”
Austin International Drag Festival Brings Hundreds Of Drag Queens To Texas
Huffpost Gay Voices // May 5, 2015
New York was well represented at the festival, with Brooklyn artists Merrie Cherry,Horrorchata, Goldie Peacock, Chris of Hur, Charlene, Crimson Kitty, Louvel, Untitled Queen and Heidi Glum giving shows all weekend.