Rupaul's Drag Culture Analysis

Today if you ask someone in the states what they know about Drag, you will probably get one of three answers. Either they’re completely immersed in Drag culture, they know nothing about it, or they’ve heard and or watched an episode or two of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The latter being the most common response due to the growing popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race in the mainstream culture now reaching 800,000+ viewers.
Before RuPaul Andre Charles was born in San Diego in 1960, a psychic told his pregnant mother two things; that the baby would be a boy, and that he would be famous. And girl, would he ever! Whether you’ve watched all nine seasons of his Emmy-winning reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race or only know him as the guiding voice behind “You better work” and “Sashay, Shante,” RuPaul has been knocking his heels around pop culture for more than 30 years, changing the game for LGBTQ representation moment by moment along the way. Drag has long been a marginalized art form, but RuPaul used it to build an empire as one of the first performers to really break into the mainstream as an author, actor, model, TV host, and recording artist.
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It wasn’t until I went to my first Drag performance that I noticed something eye-opening regarding the show. When we went to Godfrey's I had what I perceived, at first, to be an underwhelming experience but as we dived further into the class I found to be a game changer. What I found was the RuPaul’s Drag Race is heavily radicalized and rely profoundly on tropes. Throws the proverbial shade on the minority narratives and less of an emphasis on how the Drag Queens want to create their own narratives. I feel RuPaul’s Drag Race is harmful the minority gay narrative’s because it requires the Drag artists to play into their racial stereotypes and

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