Last night at the Season 7 New York premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Lady Bunny was the DJ and as usual she had something to say when the Huffington Post asked her if Drag Race was political:
“Drag does have the potential [to be subversive or political] but that’s not what anyone is looking for from ‘Drag Race.’ Sharon Needles was a bit political, a vegetarian, outspoken on a variety of issues, more evolved, enlightened thinking, but this is basically about runway and attitude. So I don’t think there’s much politics. I also think that when I was growing up in the ‘70s and even in the ‘80s, drag was something that gay men went to see in gay bars. So just the very fact that gay people could not be out of the closet, it was very freeing for gay men to go into a club and say, ‘Wow! There’s someone that’s not only not afraid to be gay, but they’re walking around as a transsexual.’ So I think for my generation drag was a very ‘F-YOU’ to the conventions that kept us in the closet. But now we’re not longer in the closet and drag is on TV, so just doing drag in itself is not subversive at all anymore. It could be! I’m very interested in politics, but at the age of these queens I wouldn’t even like your political post on Facebook! Especially if it had nothing to do with gay rights. But this show isn’t political in any way.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race will premiere on LogoTV, Monday, March 2 at 9 PM. (via Huffington Post)
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