![]() ![]() Of course, the show has much further to go in its mission to better represent the intersectionality and experiences of people in the LGBTQ community - I'm not even touching on any of the critiques of racial representation and class dynamics on Drag Race.īut it appears that RuPaul and other producers felt comfortable enough in their mission to finally give the people a cast member who they'd been asking for all along: a straight, white, cisgender drag queen from Arkansas named Maddy Morphosis. That's all to say that Drag Race has come a long way from 2018. It cast its first trans male drag queen, Gottmik, last season, and cast trans queens Kerri Colby and Kornbread Jeté for season 14, which is currently airing on VH1. In the years since RuPaul's gross comments about the show's casting of Peppermint - the show's first openly trans drag queen - Drag Race has cast trans drag queens such as Gia Gunn, Jiggly Caliente, and Kylie Sonique Love on its spin-off show RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. ![]() RuPaul's Drag Race (and RuPaul himself) has a checkered history when it comes to casting drag queens from across the gender identity spectrum, particularly trans drag queens.
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