Can gold gowns and hearts lead to gilded Emmys love forRuPaul’s Drag Race?
“Theres now more drag in more spaces than ever before.
The result gagged the nation, and will go down as one of the best face-offs inDrag Raceherstory.
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My goal is to always put on such a fantastic show that people leave their jaws on the floor.
Its amazing to see glamour intersect with the intensity of a challenge.
I always have little moments planned out in my lip-syncs…. “We wanted to go the comedy route.”
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So, where does one look for inspiration for Trump’s cheese-colored facial palette?
“Cheetos,” Marcelina says.
“We went through a lot of oranges and bronzers.
We also had a pumpkin-colored eyeliner,” Fregozo adds.
The face was really bronzed that day, he mustve been golfing or something.
That was the main image we kept going back to.”
Then, there were the eyebrows.
“The element of satire is the most important part of this,” she finishes.
Too bad Covfefe was unavailable for comment.
Thats the truth, we didnt know, so when it happened, they loved it.
At the time we were like s, were gonna be in the bottom because of her!
“Its part of the drag culture, and we’re naturally funny.
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We all have moments that we just dont expect.
Drag queens are walking memes!”
“And I really dont care, because they were ugly.
Those wigs were hideous!”
Iconic community ally Nina West is the drag mother we need
Every drag queen needs a mother.
“Its a queer show by queer people,gaypeople, and celebrating the stories of queer people.
A show likeDrag Raceis saying ‘Here we are.
Were celebrating!'”
“The silhouettes were terrible.
Ok, they were awful and atrocious,” she says with a laugh.
“I think the message of that runway was so important, bold, and brave…. What I needed was the opportunity to tell the story.
And they gave me that opportunity, and Im so grateful for that.”
“A show likeDrag Raceis so important for this reason.
Its probably supremely superficial to many people.
I think thats the importance of my story this season!”
People underestimate the challenges.
I wanted to serve perky cheerleader with my AKeria sass.
I thought, Oh, bitch, dont break face, catch this routine, catch your breath!
If you drop the ball, everything goes up in flames.
she remembers with a laugh.
