Drag star Rify Royalty isn't afraid to defy expectations — and show a little skin!

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As Brooklyn's self-proclaimed "premiere slutty sad girl," Rify Royalty embraces the unexpected when it comes to drag performance, gender expression and onstage looks.

Video Transcript

RIFY ROYALTY: Anyone can do drag. You just have to be entertaining. I don't care about your gender, where you come from, or what you look like. You just need to be fab. And when people leave my shows, I want them to feel that about me. I want them to be like oh, she's the one. And I want them to feel happy, or turned on, or confused. All that jazz.

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Hi I am Rify Royalty. I live in Brooklyn, New York. I'm a drag performer, artist, producer. And I am Brooklyn's premiere slutty sad girl. I got my start in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn drag scene when I first started, I was super alternative, and diverse. Just queens like pouring like milk on themselves, or fake blood, and it was just, it was chaos.

I like looking muscular in drag, boyish. For me, drag has never been about like gender illusion, so much as it was about like just being glam. The mustache never mattered. I never wear body. I don't tuck. I don't wear pads or any of that. I'm just me in like my muscular femme form. There is a sense of community. It's important to support each other, and lift each other up. So I try to go and support my sisters, and they'll do the same for me.

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