You're scrolling through your recommended videos on YouTube, and you find "Haus Of Edwards: Audience Warmup - RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8 Grand Finale," or "RuPaul - The Realness Official Music Video" in two basic examples of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
Last Monday Night, was the season finale of "RuPaul's Drag Race." Three queens were up for the "crown," also known as the chance to be "America's Next Drag Superstar." The three queens were Naomi Smalls, Kim Chi, and Bob the Drag Queen. All three stared in "The Realness" music video, along with RuPaul, and a shirtless guy.
But let's start from the beginning. RuPaul has been in the public eye since before I was born, and he burst on to the scene in 1993, four years before I was born, with his hit single "Supermodel (You Better Work)." Ru, as he is commonly referred to, is the contestants' Drag Mother, aka Momma Ru. All the contestants call each other, from any season, sisters. RuPaul's Drag Race is the number-one show on Logo, MTV's network aimed at the LGBTQ+ community. There is even a convention called "RuPaul's Drag Con," which had its second annual convention this year.
"RuPaul's Drag Race" started in 2009. The first season had nine contestants and eight episodes as well as one "Re-United" episode. BeBe Zahara Benet won the first season. There have since been eight seasons (including the most recent one) and one all-stars season (and one announced for later this year). Including Benet, there have been nine winners (Benet, Tyra Sanchez, Raja, Sharon Needles, Chad Michaels (Winner of All-Stars 1), Jinkx Monsoon, Bianca Del Rio, Violet Chachki, and the winner of season eight, Bob the Drag Queen).
The reason "RuPaul's Drag Race" is the most accepting TV show, is that the queens are accepted as who they are. Even though the more masculine queens are made fun of by the more feminine queens, it still allows the queens to be who they are. From the breakdown of Roxxy Andrews in Season five, where RuPaul states that they're all family, to right before Mimi Imfurst, RuPaul said "Drag is not a contact sport" (one of the most quoted lines), in response to her lifting fellow contestant India Ferrah over her head during their elimination lip-sync. It's had its good moments and bad moments. But as a number one-rated show, on Logo, a channel aimed at the LGBT community, they have to be doing something right.
The sad part is that Logo is considered a "Package Channel" on just about every Cable/Satellite provider, so you have to pay extra for Logo. However, most people can watch the episodes on Logotv.com.
