It’s not hard to dislike RuPaul. The world’s most famous drag queen, and mastermind behind the RuPaul’s Drag Race multi-million pound empire, is garish and rich, a bit detached and personally tied to a fracking farm fortune. Everyone has an opinion — and in the back of drag clubs, queens still swap rumours about his on-set behaviour over Marlboro Touches.
It is more difficult to work out where the malice stems from — in terms of the queens, I suspect it is resentment at being tarnished with the same, cleansed, family-friendly image as his. “I’m a drag queen.” “Oh, like RuPaul.” Some probably think he invented it.
