Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
TRIXIE MATTELMy look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.
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When someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
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Something ‘Drag Race’ is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don’t know everything. They don’t have all the answers.
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I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
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Drag Race’ doesn’t claim to represent drag as a whole. ‘Drag Race’ is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other’s art and who your real identity is – name, gender, hair color, anything.
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I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
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I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
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Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
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I think people are slowly realizing that don’t have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they’re realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn’t make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.
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I don’t think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
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I love that drag is a way for people to vacation in the gay nightlife, but… it’s quite a different experience to perform for a gay audience than a straight audience.
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I’m very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of ‘Drag Race’ saying they’re great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up.
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I’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
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