Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars all seasons

Right, now I have worked out how to spoiler tag, I can have at it.



Was Gia Gunn so shady on her season? She’s really getting the bitch edit. I think she’s very beautiful and I quite enjoyed her act but I really struggle to warm to her. And you have to be warm to win.

Farah’s burlesque was shaping up until she wiped out. I don’t feel like I have seems anyone else doing that showgirl look (am I forgetting someone? (Apart from Xtina) and that could be an interesting niche for her. Would have been nice for her to go the whole way and end up in pasties. Trinity could give her an extreme tuck...

Finally, was it a mistake to open the library in episode one?

Gia is setting herself up for something.

She clearly isn't there to compete.

Should transgender women be allowed on drag race?

That’s tricky though isn’t it. If “physically still a man” means you’re a man then there are an awful lot of pre-op trans people out there whose self identification you’ve just dismissed. Not that I disagree, the whole game loses something if it’s not a man “dressed as a girl”. But when it comes to Gia, all of the characteristics she had as a man in drag are still there so it still works for me.

Rupaul got into a right old pickle with this and has had to back down reconsider presumably so as not to alienate himself and the show from a large segment of the community. 

www.them.us/story/these-queens-have-some-words-for-rupaul

Did a discussion of trans inclusion on drag race really manage to talk about genitalia within two posts? Crikey.

This is always going to be a contentious issue. A drag queen - to my mind - has always been a man adopting a female persona for the purpose of entertainment.

Part of that has always been the transformative process. Some transformations are realistic, some are more impressionistic, some are completely out there.

With Gia (on All Stars and her original series), I never really got a sense of her 'creating an illusion' and so I never really considered her to be part of the drag world. That might seem harsh - but I never got a sense of her playing a part - she was just being Gia (with no discernible difference between her on and off stage personas). Which some might consider drag - but that style of things never really appealed to me.

There is a drag queen culture and a growing drag king culture. Perhaps we need a third generic drag culture where anything goes. I do appreciate that where surgery is involved, it is tricky to say that body shaping/facial surgery (such as Detox and Trinity) is really that different to full gender reassignment/confirmation surgery.

I don't think there is a solution that will satisfy everyone in all this. There are those who believe very strongly in the drag queen culture and that it should not be altered - and there are those who want a more inclusive approach.

Just because I have a history of people not liking me on here haha, I don't mean any disrespect by my opinion on the whole trans issue.

Gia Gunn = Shady Supreme. She’s very entertaining though.

Latrice should have win that for the white jumpsuit alone. I actually Lol’d at that. Fabulous.

And what is going on with Monique’s make up? It looked like it had been thrown on in the shape of a beard. Blend blend blend, Henny!

Gia needs to go and my guess is that it will be very soon.
She's just not a nice person. Farrah was right when she told her she was just looking for screentime, nothing to do with getting in her head.

When i saw Farrah in the group number, i thought it was a choice she had made to do a weird mix of the running man and robot moves. She has ZERO dance ability. It wasn't even in time to the music.

I thought the choice of song for the LSFYL was dull too.

I’ve watched episode three and I call say is...some problematic racial and trans stereotyping going on in Snatch Game. I did enjoy the runway though. That’s something to look forward to.

This week? Well, we all knew the

Why is Manila constantly making out she’s 391 years old?

I think Gia knows her time in the show is likely to be short so she’s going for maximum impact. Cant blame her for that, it will get her work which is what they’re all there for. And let’s face it, Farrah was useless. No talent whatsoever, unless you count looking glamorous as a talent.

That’s it then, she IS the Boom Boom “Gone”.

I’ll miss Gia. Lets face it the first few episodes might have been quite dull without the drama she brought. Interesting to see the open discussion about strategies in voting Queens out. I wonder if Manila was really contemplating that or if it was just to ramp up the drama?

I think Latrice is in danger. She’s coasting along and that was another poor snatch game performance and once again it was someone else’s fault. She should have performed through Gia trying to distract her... I just wonder if she can really do this.