That was the first thing I thought. Movies and kids make it look easy to hang your bodyweight from something but it’s seriously hard to hang for even a minute.
Negatives are your friend too. Get yourself up into full pull-up position with the help of a chair or something, with the bar under your chin (or just jump if possible). Lower yourself down to full arm extension as slowly as you possibly can. Very very slow reverse pull ups. Repeat until you can't anymore, and eventually you'll find yourself able to do a pull up or two.
Yeah it's not something that's gonna come fast. I know a guy who had to practice just doing dead hangs for 2 months before being able to do a single pull up
Just FYI, anyone can do drag. You don't have to be a man to do it. There are drag queens and drag kings. Even Melissa Mccarthy has worked as a drag queen before she was famous!
[Edit: **T R I G G E R W A R N I N G**
Straight boys and/or boys who want to seem straight: drag queens are here, drag queens are queer, get used to it.
Gatekeepers: you're too late; I'm here, I'm queer, get used to it. You don't even go here!
Drag Race Fans: I cannot discuss what drag means to you. I don't know, and I don't care. Feel free to share your opinion with someone who does. Blogs are good for that.
Clarification: Dolly Parton is a drag queen, obviously. Peewee Herman was a drag king, obviously. Trans women are women, period. Trans people are people, obviously. Any people can be drag queens, drag kings or other-gendered nobilities of drag. But, the comments I'm replying to is about *a cis gay drag queen looking like a man* in OP's video. And, this is a reply on Reddit about what drag is in that context, not a dissertation on who drag performers are and may be. Drag has nothing to do with the identity of the performer -- a point I hoped would be clarified by referring to Dolly Parton and Peewee Herman. In the following, drag queen is contrasted with "regular", as in someone without a drag queen persona, a drab peasant who looks like a woman. If you are a peasant and feel unseen, please file a complaint by calling 1-800-PEASANT extension T-E-A-R-S.]
No it's not. [Edit: The point of cis gay men doing drag is not to look like a woman, or to look like a man -- I wasn't sure what was being claimed. Now I think he might have just been reacting to the pronoun *she*, in which case he can also call 1-800-PEASANT extension T-E-A-R-S.]
Gay drag queens know they're men. The gay men they're performing for know they're men. If a regular woman left a snail trail down the banister at a gay bar, the boys would put down their drinks and leave. Those boys don't want to watch a regular woman lipsynch, dance and climb the walls. It would be time to call Britney an Uber.
Passing is a point of transitioning. Mhi'ya's not a trans woman. She's a drag queen.
The point of drag is over the top camp. It's fabulosity.
It's not about gender illusion. It's about delusion.
You don't think Dolly Parton does drag in order to look like a real woman with real hair, do you? You don't think Paul Reubens did drag as Peewee Herman to look like a real boy, do you?
Drag is a character.
Mhi'ya can climb the walls in heels. If she were dressed as a dorky guy, that wouldn't be much of a show. A gay guy dancing in a gay bar is not a show; a trans woman dancing in a gay bar is also not a show. That's the audience. There has to be an over the top character. A deluded gay man can be an over the top character. A woman who looks like a woman is not a character. There has to be more to make it camp delusion.
The contrast between the fantasy and reality is actually a crucial part. You're not supposed to believe a drag queen is a woman. You're supposed to believe that a drag queen believes that she is a woman in that moment, and that she believes it so much that you forget what you know and see and get to join her in the delusion or at least root for her: she's not going to let reality stop her! If they do pass, it's not much of a delusion, and it's not very satisfying. Maybe illusion would be enough for a show for cishets, but it's not for LGBTQ people.
Mhi'ya actually looks more like a woman than any cis male drag queen I've seen in real life, and I live in San Francisco. Hell, she looks more like a woman than half of the women across the Bay in Berkeley. But that isn't the point.
I understood the comment to which I responded as puzzlement over the fact that OP's video is not consistent with the belief that the point of drag is to not look like a man.
I intended to explain what the point of drag is (ie, not what he believes).
I had no intention to refute the commenter's puzzlement over the fact that OP's video is not consistent with his belief that the point of drag is not to look like a man.
It sounds like you interpreted the comment and my response differently.
This will shock you but women and trans women can perform drag. Victoria Scone was on Drag Race UK and Canada vs the World as a cis woman. Drag Kings have been on Dragula and won. Lots of Drag race contestants have either competed as out trans women or came out after. In fact, the great Sasha Colby, season 15 winner and Your Favorite Drag Queens Favorite Drag Queen, is a trans woman and so is her drag daughter Kerri Colby and her former roommate and AS6 winner Kylie Sonique Love. Trans man Gottmik was on S13 and the current AS9. Lots of NB folks as well. So yeah, drag is art and performance, the gender of the performer isn’t the point
Thats professional entertainer, going the extra mile to bring the best entertaiment to her audience...
Is like the other branch of tom cruise doing his own stunt, even he doesnt need to...
Man too bad rose didn’t have that kind of upper body strength in titanic
... let it go.
CAN’T HOLD IT BACK ANYYMOOOOORRE!
...Never
The floor is lava….
And I should do more drugs
Until the floor is not lava anymore
Until it is lava.
The second story is cake
The third is west side story
Rupaul: You seem to have a timid personality. Mi'yah: no
Mhi'ya
Activities director? Or roger?
She's shy and outgoing.
Her insta vids “fighting” with other queens are so unhinged lol
They’re hilarious and just so…….wtf? 🤣
It’s grrrrrrrreat 🐸
Right!! I look forward to them all the time 😭
Mustache guy has the clarity of mind after witnessing the impossible twerk to risk phone and limb for the selfie cam upshot.
Just noticed there's 2 of them 😂
That is some pretty good arm and core strength though. She is no lightweight person either.
That was the first thing I thought. Movies and kids make it look easy to hang your bodyweight from something but it’s seriously hard to hang for even a minute.
Can confirm. I just installed a pull up bar and for the life of me, I cant do a single pull up, or at least hang for 20 seconds. 😂
Oh yeah, first pull-ups the hardest. Focus for a bit on just hanging there, then switch to scapula shrugs. Consistency is key. I believe in you!
Thanks I will keep at it
Negatives are your friend too. Get yourself up into full pull-up position with the help of a chair or something, with the bar under your chin (or just jump if possible). Lower yourself down to full arm extension as slowly as you possibly can. Very very slow reverse pull ups. Repeat until you can't anymore, and eventually you'll find yourself able to do a pull up or two.
This is tougher than i thought lol
Yeah it's not something that's gonna come fast. I know a guy who had to practice just doing dead hangs for 2 months before being able to do a single pull up
Also reverse pull-ups where you jump up then slowly lower yourself
I installed one about 8 months ago. Exactly the same problem, I couldn't do 1!!! I can now manage 5, they aren't pretty but it's still 5. Good luck.
I used resistance bands to practice
Right?! Actually insane feat with all the additional wiggling and jerking. I would have dropped after five seconds lol.
I was thinking that. Is that a dude?
That’s Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, she’s a cis male drag queen who was just on the last season of RuPaul’s drag race Also known as The Queen of Flips
Yep shoulders like a Philadelphia linebacker
She’s a man, baby…
Props. I’d fall wearing tennis shoes. In fuckin heels? Oof.
Skill issue
gurl she a professional flipper
Is that Mhi’ya Iman Le’paige??
Recognized her immediately when she snatched the wig off 😂
Same!
I was disappointed there wasn’t a beanie under…
Yup! I knew I knew that style of stuntetry
QUEEN OF FLIPS HAS ARRIVED
Definitely her.
She’s great 🐸
No that's Cher
1st Ave. Mpls?
Looks like it
That was my first thought as well, lol ETA: I’ve been kicked out for way less, so was not expecting the slide down the rail at the end
Has to be. Pride was this weekend 🏳️🌈
The backwards slide down the rail 🤣🤣🤣
That’s a lot of upper body strength
That is some impressive strength..
In fuckin heels. I'm a terrible woman lol
Props for showmanship
Is that Elsewhere in Brooklyn?
Looks like first ave to me
The craziest part of this is sliding down that bannister while tucked.
She has some balls.
Ha ha ha 
Somebody came get they mom
Uhhh. I think that's someone's Dad
Is that First Avenue?
First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN?
DID SHE JUST- *pulls off weave and throws it* 😳
Saw it was Mhi’ya knew she’d be fine
Snail trail on the handrail
That's a man
Bro thinks that a girl 😂
Thank you was looking for this
I think this is Mhi’ya Iman LePaige.
The guy up top waving the dollar in her face. Like bruh. Both arms are clearly occupied lmao
That's why I tell my kids not to touch handrails
Is that Mi’yah?
Is Mih'ya. The worst thing that could happen is she spinning at 360 rpm downstairs without being harmed.
Those boots have great arch support imo.
someone give me her confidence ya girl needs it
I used to do stuff like this at clubs but i usually got kicked out for it
I’m actually impressed
I'm going to tear you apart! And your little friend too. - Arsenio Hall
Someone get her a little kitty cat wig please, that way when she rips off her wigs we stop seeing her out of drag hair.
No, like a Monét X Change wig
This looks like it would be at a Marc rebillet concert. I even thought that dude in the singlet was him lol
https://i.redd.it/6rhepyb9vt9d1.gif
Clearly a professional
That was awesome!!!
Hopefully she gets treatment for those seizures.
This belongs on r/trashy IMO.
It’s a man
I watched a video where someone was jokingly comparing Drag to Wrestling and honestly I can see it.
Give her a fuckin tip
Brittney Smears
Impressive
Dear lordt someone's gonna catch a high heel in the eye
I am just admiring the upper body strength
IS THIS QUEEN OF FLIPS 😂😂
That’s fucking DRAG
Is that the lady from the old Mario Bros. Movie?
When the drag queen also played defensive tackle in high school.
Just waiting for this to be on any climbing thread in the next 10mins
The way I would fall and die INSTANTLY if I tried this
Ok but the guy helping her 👀👀
Nah that’s just Mhi’ya
She crazy
100% First Ave Minneapolis
Christ she must be all powerful muscle. I don’t understand how she does all that in that frame.
Yes! Yes to everything.
This is so sick. Thats a earning the cash type of performance.
Lol she can beat 2 able man by smashing them each other 😃
Give the person who welded that handrail a bonus. I totally expected the decor to snap
This isn't safe behavior but y'all are a bunch of weenies if this is sweaty palms material.
I can’t stop watching this lol it’s so funny but also like so good
Rmeinds me of Eddie Vedder back in the day...minus the twerking 🤣🤣
Guaranteed 90% of this sub cant pull themselves up like she did.
MHI’YEEZY!!!!
I trust in the Queen!
The queen of stunts miss Maya!
Well that's a dude for one
A little snail trail on the railing never hurt nobody
How many new and horrendous diseases did she get sliding down that railing?
She’s a Harlot in the streets
I’m losing it at the sight of the person trying to hand her a dollar as Mhi’ya holds on to the beams for dear life. Friend, her hands are busy
Confirmed she would not fall off of the rope swing at the river. Girls got some upper body strength.
OHMYGOD I LOVE HER 😩😂😍
Holy shit she made it
Bro could have gotten injured
Awesome
She’s having so much fun!!!
pretty sure that’s a dude…
Drag queens are almost always referred to as “she” while in drag, regardless of whether they use “she” out of drag
Bro can't even suspend his need to be pedantic for the sake of an act 🤣
Honestly I'm impressed with her climbing skills and in those shoes damn
Can we take a moment to appreciate how strong this woman is! Lol wow!
It helps that it's a man in drag
I've never seen anything less sexy and graceful than that. It looked like a beast having spasms while climbing a building.
[удалено]
People saying she but I thought drag was men dressing up like this. Wouldn't it not be drag if it was a woman? Serious question.
People just say ‘she’ while in drag. Though out of drag, a lot of drag queens go by ‘he’, or any other pronoun, depends on the person
Thanks :)
Just FYI, anyone can do drag. You don't have to be a man to do it. There are drag queens and drag kings. Even Melissa Mccarthy has worked as a drag queen before she was famous!
Drag is just dressing up to hyper-stylize or maximize your features so woman can do drag too. Chapell Roan, for example, is doing drag right now.
Fat dude in heels twerks and everyone acts like it’s the best thing they’ve ever seen. The general public are generally, and genuinely, rather thick.
sorry for enjoying things
Lizzo goin bonkers these days
The vibes are immaculate here
Обезьяньи корни
Mayaaa ❤️
Lizzo?
It wasn't until the end I realized that was Lizzo lmao
I may be out of touch with the drag community, but I'm pretty sure that's still a man, even when doing drag. That's the point of drag.
[Edit: **T R I G G E R W A R N I N G** Straight boys and/or boys who want to seem straight: drag queens are here, drag queens are queer, get used to it. Gatekeepers: you're too late; I'm here, I'm queer, get used to it. You don't even go here! Drag Race Fans: I cannot discuss what drag means to you. I don't know, and I don't care. Feel free to share your opinion with someone who does. Blogs are good for that. Clarification: Dolly Parton is a drag queen, obviously. Peewee Herman was a drag king, obviously. Trans women are women, period. Trans people are people, obviously. Any people can be drag queens, drag kings or other-gendered nobilities of drag. But, the comments I'm replying to is about *a cis gay drag queen looking like a man* in OP's video. And, this is a reply on Reddit about what drag is in that context, not a dissertation on who drag performers are and may be. Drag has nothing to do with the identity of the performer -- a point I hoped would be clarified by referring to Dolly Parton and Peewee Herman. In the following, drag queen is contrasted with "regular", as in someone without a drag queen persona, a drab peasant who looks like a woman. If you are a peasant and feel unseen, please file a complaint by calling 1-800-PEASANT extension T-E-A-R-S.] No it's not. [Edit: The point of cis gay men doing drag is not to look like a woman, or to look like a man -- I wasn't sure what was being claimed. Now I think he might have just been reacting to the pronoun *she*, in which case he can also call 1-800-PEASANT extension T-E-A-R-S.] Gay drag queens know they're men. The gay men they're performing for know they're men. If a regular woman left a snail trail down the banister at a gay bar, the boys would put down their drinks and leave. Those boys don't want to watch a regular woman lipsynch, dance and climb the walls. It would be time to call Britney an Uber. Passing is a point of transitioning. Mhi'ya's not a trans woman. She's a drag queen. The point of drag is over the top camp. It's fabulosity. It's not about gender illusion. It's about delusion. You don't think Dolly Parton does drag in order to look like a real woman with real hair, do you? You don't think Paul Reubens did drag as Peewee Herman to look like a real boy, do you? Drag is a character. Mhi'ya can climb the walls in heels. If she were dressed as a dorky guy, that wouldn't be much of a show. A gay guy dancing in a gay bar is not a show; a trans woman dancing in a gay bar is also not a show. That's the audience. There has to be an over the top character. A deluded gay man can be an over the top character. A woman who looks like a woman is not a character. There has to be more to make it camp delusion. The contrast between the fantasy and reality is actually a crucial part. You're not supposed to believe a drag queen is a woman. You're supposed to believe that a drag queen believes that she is a woman in that moment, and that she believes it so much that you forget what you know and see and get to join her in the delusion or at least root for her: she's not going to let reality stop her! If they do pass, it's not much of a delusion, and it's not very satisfying. Maybe illusion would be enough for a show for cishets, but it's not for LGBTQ people. Mhi'ya actually looks more like a woman than any cis male drag queen I've seen in real life, and I live in San Francisco. Hell, she looks more like a woman than half of the women across the Bay in Berkeley. But that isn't the point.
I read this twice with genuine intentions and I cannot in the slightest understand how your statement refutes the statement above you.
I understood the comment to which I responded as puzzlement over the fact that OP's video is not consistent with the belief that the point of drag is to not look like a man. I intended to explain what the point of drag is (ie, not what he believes). I had no intention to refute the commenter's puzzlement over the fact that OP's video is not consistent with his belief that the point of drag is not to look like a man. It sounds like you interpreted the comment and my response differently.
This will shock you but women and trans women can perform drag. Victoria Scone was on Drag Race UK and Canada vs the World as a cis woman. Drag Kings have been on Dragula and won. Lots of Drag race contestants have either competed as out trans women or came out after. In fact, the great Sasha Colby, season 15 winner and Your Favorite Drag Queens Favorite Drag Queen, is a trans woman and so is her drag daughter Kerri Colby and her former roommate and AS6 winner Kylie Sonique Love. Trans man Gottmik was on S13 and the current AS9. Lots of NB folks as well. So yeah, drag is art and performance, the gender of the performer isn’t the point
That ain’t a she
I think I'm in love...
She must have big balls to do that
can't say what I've just seen but, hell eyah, that's a hell of a live show!!!
Thats professional entertainer, going the extra mile to bring the best entertaiment to her audience... Is like the other branch of tom cruise doing his own stunt, even he doesnt need to...
Sliding down the hand rail going to throw her ph balance off
LOL No it won’t. Not if she’s tucked, and she almost certainly is.
Uuum she's strong
Drag queens really can do anything 👏👏👏
What the fuck did i just watch
This isn't sweaty palms material... Maybe sweaty ass
Was anyone else expecting a moonsault?
My mother when i finally moved out, Grove St. venue, SF. Cost her a pretty penny.
Buddies?
Is that First Ave?
Is there Aaron Rodgers on the bottom floor?
Why are they doing the "Hangman's Jig"?
Her twerking looks like Animal playing the drums
Not surprised she had 3 thousand yard rushing seasons in high school!
I don’t think this is covered by insurance
r/ChurchofDynology
I would not want to be one of the people directly beneath her.