I wanna gossip about Dragrace and I’m not sure where I should do it!

Tamar, Do you watch the show?

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    There’s also some unease between parts of the trans community and parts of the drag community. Which, fair enough, if I were a trans woman and after explaining to someone my lived experience, they responded with “Oh like on Ru Paul!” I would be pretty devastated. There’s also a decent history of transphobic and/or misogynistic queens (Ru Paul being one of them, anyone else remember "oooOOoo, you’ve got…

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    That being said, my personal experience with drag IRL has always been a wonderful and inclusive space, with men, women, and non-binary people all being heavily featured as drag performers in my community. I can still understand some people’s discomfort with it, though, even if I don’t necessarily agree with their conception of what drag is.