This was seen as especially hypocritical coming from RuPaul, in light of all the fracking claims. In the ball episode of Drag Race season 10, the theme centered around climate change with the emphasis being on conservation and environmental preservation. So why was there a huge 'fracking controversy' nearly a year and a half later?Īrguably, what brought the most heat to the issue in the alleged fracking accusations wasn't the fracking (or as he calls it, 'land management') itself it's the hypocrisy. Now, I'm here to clear up a few things and set the record straight (metaphorically speaking): in a December 2018 interview with Jimmy Kimmel, he was also asked about ranch life and had nearly the exact same answer. And then you lease the grazing rights to different ranchers. It uh…you lease the mineral rights to oil companies, and you sell water to oil companies. When the conversation turned to his and his husband's 60,000 acres of land in Wyoming and South Dakota, he had this to say about what happens on LeBar ranch: 'A modern ranch, 21st-century ranch, is really land management. RuPaul and prom date, as seen on All Stars s5e5īut that's not the only thing he talked about in that interview. Can you really blame an 80s punk queer queen for jumping at the chance of success? That said, a heavily studied and engineered look like that does take some help to achieve, and why would you do things all by yourself if you can have people do it for you? Privileged, yes does it change his career as an artist? Nah. So yes, RuPaul's current look is very engineered, but everything in media is designed specifically to be marketable and successful. In an All Stars 5 episode, he showed a picture of him at prom back in the day, and it was so Sid Vicious… but very unlike Ru as we know him now, in or out of drag. It's very studied and precise … and that's how it came about.' 'I had also met with Mathu and Zaldy, two visual designers costume, makeup, everything, and we'd come up with my look, which was then elevated from my Soul Train dancer look … to the glamazon that you know today. In the March interview with Terry Gross, Ru talked about how his iconic 'glamazon' look came about, as the drag he had done previously was a more experimental and androgynous punk look. Now, people saw these looks and the initial reaction was, 'if you can't do your own makeup, how in the hell can you judge someone else's makeup'. A look at RuPaul's Drag Race season 12 finale (Image: VH1). It's not been a secret that he can't do his own drag makeup and relies on a team to make him look good…which he obviously doesn't have in quarantine (hence the luchador masks). The reunion's sleepover theme was cute as his mask looked like a clay beauty face mask, but he had zero makeup (not even lashes), no hair, and nothing else really to sell the look. In the Drag Race season 12 reunion and finale episodes, he showed up on camera sporting bizarre Pussy Riot-esque facekinis. The 2020 quarantine content has shown us the true faces of celebrities, and RuPaul is no exception. Last year's quarantine was an interesting time for the iconic drag queen – he did an interview with Terry Gross which caused outrage over fracking on his husband's land, he made a comment that put him at odds with the trans community and then deleted his entire personal online social media presence with zero explanation. LBGTQ icon and arguably the world's most famous drag queen RuPaul Charles is no stranger to controversy – he's made a career out of shocking the everyday person.

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