Tag: RuPaul
Reemerging with His First Single Since “the Ventura Boulevard Incident,” Lil Nas X Releases RuPaul-Meets-Outkast-esque “World’s Greatest!”
The last time Lil Nas X was making headlines, it wasn’t for his music, but for walking down Ventura Boulevard around six a.m. in the [Read More…]
Bottoms Still Can’t Top But I’m A Cheerleader When It Comes to Queer Satire
Being that the queer film canon remains shockingly scant after all this time, it goes without saying that the even more hyper-specific genre of satirical [Read More…]
A Clüsterfünke Christmas Spotlights an Expanding Xmas Movie Genre: The Hallmark Parody (But The Bitch Who Stole Christmas Does It Better)
Just because the idea is there, doesn’t necessarily mean it will translate to the “greatness” imagined. Such is the case with A Clüsterfünke Christmas, written [Read More…]
Parodying Gender Identity in But I’m A Cheerleader
As Pride Month begins to cum to a close, it’s important to remember that, for most of the rest of the year, the straights and [Read More…]
Cher: Decadence, Longevity, Eternal Beauty—In Short, It Isn’t “4/20” So Much As the Start of Taurus Season
There are some who still say Taurus season kicks off on April 19th, ostensibly in the wake of that whole controversy circa 2016 when NASA [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #7: Drag Race’s Madonna “Rusical”
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. While corporate gays [Read More…]
AJ and the Queen Brings Back the 80s Feel of Punky Brewster (With A Gay Slant, Of Course)
For those who thought neither RuPaul nor Michael Patrick King had any shows left in them to give, turns out, collaborating together might have been [Read More…]
Attempting to Appeal to Straights: The Downfall of the Trixie and Katya Show
Drag queens aren’t—nor will they ever be—renowned for not being completely and totally amenable to corporate whoredom. That’s what they strive for, in fact. The [Read More…]
The Mainstream-ification of Drag Thanks to Drag Race
RuPaul has always been the primary champion of drag in the mainstream. His rise to prominence after releasing “Supermodel (You Better Work)” in 1992 resulted [Read More…]
RuPaul: Serving Scorpio Realness
Before RuPaul, drag was not considered an art, but rather a farce. Not that elements of the farcical are not present in the queen of [Read More…]
