![]() ![]() But there are many, many more stories of drag queens and kings, gender-nonconforming people and camp icons out there waiting to be discovered. In this sense, Drag Race has introduced a hugely broad audience to LGBTQ+ people’s stories, and for that, we have to thank it. ![]() One couple from the American South told me that their only two weekly rituals were to go to church and pray, and to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. Having been to DragCon myself (to research my book, Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture), and spoken to its guests, I can tell you not everyone there was LGBTQ+. Drag Race is shown in over 70 countries – including most recently, with the debut of RuPaul's Drag Race UK – and DragCon, the show’s accompanying convention, invited tens of thousands through its doors in Los Angeles, New York and Europe. After countless seasons, and a decade later, RuPaul’s Drag Race can be credited with catapulting drag from a side art to a mainstream phenomenon. ![]()
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