For The Love of Drag

"Ladies, start your engines and may the best woman win!"

It started off as curiosity when Ru Paul’s Drag Race was recommended to me by my ex Twitter hag. A show about competing drag queens... not quite sure what I expected but I soon became highly addicted. Yes its delightfully camp, bitchy and down right hilarious… but there is also something admirable about a man in a dress who can pull it off.


I started watching season two, having since
watched season one it is clear that season two is far superior. I immediately loved the characters, whether it was Jujubee (my favourite of all), the stylish token Asian who resembles Kimora Lee Simmons coupled with the sass of Tyra Banks or Tatiana, the nasally stick insect who channels a teenage girl and who’s Britney Spears impersonation is the best I have ever seen.

It must take a lot of balls to get tucked – still not quite sure how that all works, and get into a dress to become someone else and pull it off with such confidence. However competing seems to come naturally to them as the ‘girls’ battle it out for top honours to become America’s next drag super star, wondering how many there are of those exactly, hmmm… Some took to it like fish to water with their ability to stun the judges on the runway, including Ru Paul himself, with their uniqueness, nerve and talent. Those who didn't, well they had to lip synch for their lives as Ru Paul encouraged them "Good luck and don't fuck it up"

Standout queens for me were:

Jujubee

Jujubee, definitely one of the funniest and prettiest queens! She shines with her style and sharp wit. One of her best moments in the show was when she read all of the other girls for filth (see video below).

Pandora Boxx

The name really is fantastic, isn’t it! She embodies the ultimate camp drag queen with her humour being less sassy but more dry and quirky. Think Goldie Hawn meets Kathy Griffin.

From having to compete in numerous challenges, from promoting cooking grease, pole dancing, celebrity impersonation to putting old dudes in drag… This show has it all! It’s a darn side better than Jersey Shore, and face it… we all need a guilty pleasure, even if does involve watching a show about men who dress as woman and tuck their junk.



Ru Paul’s Drag Race has run for three seasons and currently has an 8.1 rating on IMDB.