The Boulet Brothers on Their History of Spooky Drag
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula has always embraced artists of all kinds in this regard. Since 2016, the reality series has explored the darker and more alternative side of the art form.
The competition rates its contestants on criteria like “drag, filth, horror, and glamour” without much attention paid to gender.Throughout its four seasons, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula has featured trans and nonbinary folks, cisgender women, straight men, and drag kings — like Landon Cider, the show’s season 3 winner.
For the Boulet Brothers, known individually as Swanthula and Dracmorda, it’s all about art and creativity. Just make it creepy.“I think it goes back full circle to our nightlife days,” Swanthula explains of the show’s innate inclusivity. “We created events that were intended to inspire people to come out of the closet and to be who they wanted to be and to live out their secret fantasies.
It was a no-judgment, ‘don’t dream it, be it’ sort of environment…. If you wanted to be a burlesque queen with a mustache, great.
