1/22/2024 0 Comments Milk drag queen star signBut I kind of isolate myself half the time anyway to work on drag. I know it drove some people crazy, they’d be pacing in their hotel rooms talking to themselves. In terms of the amount of things you have to do, for New Yorkers it’s a breeze. I found that the intensity of time and of having cameras on you is the biggest adjustment. In some ways it’s an absolute utopia getting escorted to a soundstage where you have a beautiful display. I found it all kind of manageable, compared to living in New York and getting home from work, changing, getting into drag, getting to the gig, find a ride, figure out how to pay for a car. Was that something you were worried about? Looking back at the history of the show, from Ongina and Nina Flowers in season one to Milk in her season, it’s often hard for the weird queens to go as far as maybe they should. Even though I love bald drag and genderfuck drag, it’s not drag without the ability to transform yourself into many different types of femininity and gender. I definitely brought a huge variety of looks. I remember when they announced that we had to do the hometown look, and I was like, “Shit, I have to put on another crown immediately after I walked in!” (which thankfully no one has read me too hard for). We get some indication of what the runways might be, but they come in a random order with no warning. Was that something you were concerned about going in, knowing you couldn’t keeping doing, “shaved head with weird thing on top”? One of the very smart things Sharon Needles did on her season was realize she couldn’t do her goth look every week or she’d come off like a one trick pony. It’s ideas but connected to people’s real lives. It brings queer people together talking about the images that delight and upset us every single day in really necessary ways. What I think makes drag so political is that it’s really entertaining. There are times where the art world talks about political ideas but doesn’t have a huge political impact. Partly because I feel fine art communities get very apolitical. I studied visual art but I’ve never been part of the art world at all. I’m very lucky to have such open-minded parents.īeing gay and doing drag are separate things, was that a concern for them? My parents actually asked me at a certain point because they were so many signs. I was constantly dressed up as a witch or a princess. I have a million pictures of me in drag as a child. It was obvious, and everyone told them I was gay because I was the gayest little child imaginable. I always joke that it wasn’t a big deal for me to come out because they were prepared from me to be gay when I was two years old. No, I think the time in San Francisco made my family very open to gayness. Russian culture is known for its homophobia. I’ve got a crazy Russian-Jewish family history. They then escaped being imprisoned by the Japanese into San Francisco. They moved from Russia to China and moved to the huge Russian-Jewish community in Harbin, Manchuria. My grandmother came over in the 40s from China. My dad is a professor of Russian history so I traveled from university campus to university campus. Sasha Velour: I grew up in central Illinois, in Urbana.
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