Drag Queens Are My Sports
I had to start a Pop Culture blog because I absorb and think about pop culture way too much to not blog about it. We're starting with drag queens. Rupaul's Drag Race is the best thing to happen to gender, fashion and maybe even comedy in an Insert-Hyperbolic-Amount-of-Time-Here. The show itself has gone downhill over the years, unavoidably. It's too aware of itself now, the queens are too polished and moneyed and famous before they even get on, it's just less fun than it used to be. But I still watch it like it's my job. Because it kinda is. Why do I love RPDR so much? I love it because it has provided a platform to cutting-edge artists working in between the genders. Drag elevates women, queers, clowns, fashionistas, and, incredibly, has given real income potential to heretofore "outsider" artists who would never have previously hoped to achieve the coin they can garner now—coin that they can put right back into their art and push that shit f...