This paper presents how the construction of corporeality takes place when a drag queen is passing through a "female impersonation" process, which may be seen as cross-dressing. Some aspects of the discussion proposed here are the construction of the character, the learning of a female impersonation process, the process of making the changes required to the character and the construction of a drag corporeality, and their meanings for this group. The data presented here comes from my ethnographic fieldwork about drag queens which was done in gay and lesbian sociability places in the island of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from 2000 to 2002.
Corporeality; Cross-Dressing; Gender; Drag Queens; Ethnography