It's an annual international celebration harnessing the performance-fueled energy of the chicks-with-packages and 'staches-to-die-for set: IDKE, the International Drag King Extravaganza. This year (next week!), it's in Austin. Boo-yah. With keynote gender revolutionary Leslie Feinberg, author of queer cult novel Stone Butch Blues, and the DJ stylings of Lesbian on Ecstasy's Lynne T, not to mention that for the first time, the international king fest will feature drag queens, our town surely knows how to do it right. Hosts with the mosts! Gay bars, local restaurants, and even the Palmer Events Center will be pulsating with the excitement of this weekend gender throwdown, getting bent with drag kings flying, driving, and hitching in from all over creation. The dapper-er the dandier, these handsome hounds will converge to wow us all with spot-on skits, films, art shows, an academic conference, and of course, dancing until sweaty, sweaty, sweaty. All aboard!
