“The drag star brought the form mainstream, and made an empire out of queer expression. Now he fears ‘the absolute worst.'”
RuPaul’s Drag Race
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Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?
In her first cover piece for the New York Times magazine, Jenna Wortham profiles RuPaul, making note of the ways in which he — and his 9-year-old reality competition TV show — have had to evolve along with shifting understandings of gender, and the politics around it.