Hi, Rusty!
This is what Wikipedia says:
"Drag queens are performance artists, almost always male, who dress in women's clothing and often act with exaggerated femininity and in feminine gender roles with a primarily entertaining purpose. They often exaggerate make-up such as eyelashes for dramatic, comedic or satirical effect."
I would not have known the term, but for Jeremy Vine so describing them.......but they did look very exaggeratedly dressed and made up.
Do you remember Danny la Rue?
Would he have been so classed?
But he was never overly done up as I recall?
He made quite an effective woman!
He did impersonations, though, of famous females, like Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Margaret Thatcher.
I have seen him on television, but never "live" on the stage.