

“Drag Race” has always been a show that knows how to balances scripted moments and genuine interactions - by turning the shadiness and catty drama underlining the plot of almost every major reality show into a good-natured theatrical performance, in which contestants earn points for the ability to mock one another.ĭrag lives to be weird, to mock conformity, and pokes hole in the artifice of normativity, exposing the notion of fixed identity and gender as an inherently flawed premise. Now, more than ever, we need axes of realness to anchor and make sense of this strange world we live in.

We’re still a very, very, very primitive culture.” That’s my gay over there!’ It’s like, no. “And you know, people will have you think, ‘Oh, we’re fashion. You see it in politics right now,” he added. “They talk so much about acceptance now today and it’s like, yes, but trust me - I’m old,” he said, ”It’s superficial.”
