RuPaul's drag race has been a worldwide success - a TV show where drag queens compete to become the next big star.
Today, the program has several Emmys on its shelf and has received several spin-off series.
But that has not always been the case for the drag culture.
Features were born out of the so-called ballroom culture that was born in New York in the early 20th century.
- It was mainly black LGBTQ people - and when it was also illegal for men to dress in women's clothing, they had to be somewhere, in underground clubs, says Alfred Jansson, journalist at QX and host of the pod Alfred and the queens who follow. Ru Pauls drag race