RuPaul's Drag Race Season 14 Features Cis, Straight Queen and Gottmik Has Thoughts
Channel: Queer News Tonight
Date: 15/12/2021

Known for its over-the-top personalities and larger-than-life femininity, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is no stranger to breaking barriers. Since it launched in 2009, the competition series has become a global phenomenon, giving mainstream legitimacy to a nightclub art form and transforming small-town performers — including Trixie Mattel, Bianca Del Rio, and Alyssa Edwards — into worldwide celebrities. But when the show announced last week that it had cast its first straight, cisgender male drag queen, Maddy Morphosis, for its coming season in January, fans questioned whether they were prepared for the series, which is known for making “her-story,” to make “his-story.”  Drag Race Alumnus Gottmik, as the first-ever transgender male contestant on the show, spoke up about the controversy in a recent interview with Variety saying, “When I first got announced on the show, I was flooded with people who did not think I should be on the show or I shouldn’t be doing drag. I feel like she’s going through the exact same thing right now. Drag is for everyone. It’s an art form. It’s not about your identity. And along as she knows where drag came from and the references and just the background of the sacred form that drag truly is, she’s gonna be fine. And turn it, you know?”

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