Krystal McQueen (2002)

rriving on the scene in December 2000, Krystal McQueen has always been the blue-haired bombshell. To Wong Foo, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and reruns of The RuPaul Show all have built what you see before you.

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Growing up a little boy in the 80's & 90's I was educated by MTV and anything my parents told me I couldn't watch. At 5 years old I was pretty much in tune with myself, a person who I would lose for most of my childhood before realizing it was my true nature. I remember spending countless hours preparing dance routines to Madonna videos. I also remember having a crush on a crayon eating rebel boy in kindergarten. Way back then I knew exactly who I was, I was a girl. However, my parents and family strangely didn't believe me. My grandmother, who let me wear her high heels, told me that I would never in a million years want to be a girl. I hadn't the slightest what these people were talking about. Of course I was girl, I crossed my legs like one since birth (and I have the pictures to prove it). The saviors throughout this whole ordeal were Madonna and very importantly RuPaul. I struggled through the rest of my childhood and teenage days knowing that one day I would pull through, just like they had.

Slowly as I matured I changed myself so many times. I was anything you could imagine. From the chubby nerd at school, to the skinny straight catholic guy every girl wanted to date, but anything I ever tried just didn't work. All the while I was the real me ... just behind closed doors. Finally I thought about that 5 year old boy with the sparkle in his eye. He was who I was, not some society pre-popped production. It was getting back to that person that was the challenge. It wasn't easy and the loss was a great number of people who fell in love with my previous image. They, like most, didn't like change and they wanted nothing more than for me to stay the way they wanted.

So who am I? By society standards I am a woman in a man's body who is open minded in ways of gender, sex, and diversity. I am comfortable looking like a man, but more pleased when I look like a woman. The prefered term would be "transgendered". I stay away from "drag queen" because even though I do entertain and model in a drag queen style, I do not fit the definition. Drag queens are men dressing like women for money, period.