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Sasha Velour reveals if she’ll ever return as a competitor on RuPaul’s Drag Race

January 23, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

“They’re not beating down the door to ask me to return, I’ll tell you that.” Sasha Velour has revealed if she’ll ever return to RuPaul’s Drag Race as a competitor. In 2017, the legendary performer won the ninth season of the Emmy Award-winning reality series, beating out competition from queens such as Shea Coulee, Trinity the Tuck, Peppermint, Valentina, Alexis Michelle and Nina Bo’nina Brown. One year later on All Stars 3, Bebe Zahara Benet made HERstory as the first crowned queen to return to Drag Race as a contestant.…

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Sasha Velour’s lip-sync extravaganza shows fans what Drag Race couldn’t

January 22, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

“I think it can be really transcendent to face pain through the art of drag.” This March, Sasha Velour will be returning to the UK with their one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, a 90-minute extravaganza that combines drag, live theatre, visual art, magic, personal storytelling and a reenactment of the iconic So Emotional lip-sync. The tour, which they created and directed themselves, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and praise from stars such as Troye Sivan, Allie X, Willam, Courtney Act, Alyssa Edwards, Peppermint, Shea Coulee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Later this…

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10 sickening films you need to watch if you love RuPaul’s Drag Race

January 19, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

Sad Drag Race is over? Don’t cha worry, we’ve rounded up ten sickening films for you to watch. Because Drag Race season 12, All Stars 5, Drag Race UK season 2, Drag Race Canada, Drag Race Australia and Celebrity Drag Race (lordt) aren’t expected to debut until later this year, we’ve provided 10 legendary films for you to watch in its absence. From cult classic To Wong Foo to Jennie Livingston’s critically-acclaimed documentary Paris Is Burning, and the campy phenomenon of Hairspray, these are the films that will leave you…

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Sasha Velour calls for more trans contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race

January 16, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

Sasha Velour has called for more trans representation on the show. The Drag Race star – who won the ninth season of the Emmy-winning show back in 2017 – was making an appearance on the United Queendom podcast when they were asked about trans representation on the show. Sasha’s original season of Drag Race made herstory with the first openly trans contestant, Peppermint, although she hadn’t fully transitioned at the time. It wasn’t until All Stars 4 that there was fully transitioned queen with Gia Gunn. Speaking about trans representation,…

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Drag Race’s Valentina reveals why ‘the entire drag community turned’ on her

January 14, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

“It exposed this facade and this character of who I could really be.” Valentina has spilt the T on why her fans and fellow RuPaul’s Drag Race queens “turned” on her. Last year, drag performer Aurora Sexton made a post on social media about a queen (who she refused to name) that was “rude and dismissive” during an event, saying she had “never witnessed” that kind of behaviour from a Drag Race girl. “I’ve been in this business…awhile. I’ve seen many entertainers come and go,” she wrote. “I’ve worked with…

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Salma Hayek says her Like a Boss character was inspired by drag queens

January 13, 2020 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

She also said she was pivotal in the character’s costumes. Salma Hayek, who stars in the recently-released film Like a Boss, has said that her character, Claire Luna, was inspired by drag queens. Like a Boss follows Mia Carter and Mel Page, played by Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne respectively, as two friends who start a cosmetics industry, but have clashing ideas on how to get the business to work. When the company folds, Claire Luna arrives to save them, but she plans to steal the business away from them.…