Alaska

I was always drawn to beautiful women.

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I'm inspired by Divine certainly, oh, and Britney Spears. I look exactly like her.

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I've certainly had to find a balance for myself and I have to now schedule months where I say, 'OK, I'm not…

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I think that my attitude about myself is something that I've been trying to work on - trying to be more positive…

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I'm a giant person. I can't go and buy women's shoes in a shoe store. I don't even go in the shoe…

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If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable…

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You have to take the tragic and turn it to magic.

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Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for…

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There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

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Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through.

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You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.

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There's always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.

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Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then…

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The thing about 'Drag Race' now is that you don't really know what's going to happen when it gets to the end…

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Drag is political.

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I want make sure I'm showing up for the people I'm really close to and my family, and so finding a balance…

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I like to say that I am based in Los Angeles, but I mostly reside in airports.

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I think I first learned about Stonewall in Queer Theatre class at the University of Pittsburgh. It made me mad that queer…

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Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful…

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I've lived in a trailer park.

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I want to make the world a better place, and I think we can all work together to do that.

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I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another,…

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After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another,…

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Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.

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I'm unabashedly obsessed with 'The Golden Girls,' and I have been for many years. And I consider myself to be a priest…

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