American - Entertainer | June 25, 1987 -
The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.
Sasha Velour
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It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.
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Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.
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I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics.
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I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.
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Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let's do it.
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Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place.
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I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.
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What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.
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The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.
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The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.
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I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
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