whatever but in english: The Drag Queen’s American Dream

Today I am glad to talk about a TV reality I am in love right now. I know in the gay culture is common to feel attraction to the obscene, the erotic, the beauty and art or simply to the weird and different things, and of course across the history there have been a lot of people who impersonated all that concepts in one or another way. In the last year the drag queen culture has become very popular, not only into gay community, also the non-gay people have been very into this artistic manifestation. So coming back to the TV reality, I want to talk about RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is a television program hosted by the Drag Superstar RuPaul, about a competition of drag queens to win a big supply of makeup (sponsored by Anastacia Beverly Hills Cosmetics) and a cash prize of US$100.000. It sounds like the American dream for any drag queen or any artist in the world, and I know a lot of people dreams to get selected into the competition and of course win the big prize. The competition consists in a weekly mini-challenge to deliberate the teams where the 14 contestants are going to be grouped to compete later in the main challenge of the week. The challenges are always about impersonate, doing makeup, fashion runway shows or singing/acting, and after the judges’ critics, one of the contestants is eliminated. I am not a very interested in TV reality guy, but this one is very funny for me, I have seen 5 seasons of the show, but it has 9 in total, with 2 especial seasons called “All-Stars” that recruit the contestants among the queens of all the seasons past. Is very impressive that all the queens that participate in the show, even if they do not win, the becomes very famous, and even some of the queen make world tours later with their own shows like singing, acting, dancing, etc. I really recommend the show and it is available in Netflix!