Teen Vogue spoke with marinaxsummers on “Drag Race Philippines,” her Single “Divine,” and the importance of Filipino drag –– get the details here ⬇️
runner-up Marina Summers first lip-synced for her life when she was 14 years old.
Marina’s shower setlist was a carousel of 2010s chart-topping artists. She pictured herself lip-syncing in Gaga’s armadillo heels from “Bad Romance,” and Beyoncé’swith thigh-length slits from “Run the World ,” the latter of which was the first rap she ever memorized. These women showed Marina, as a young boy growing up in small town Bambang, the thrill of performing before a crowd. This was who she could be in private.
Femininity seemed to taunt young Marina; dressing in women’s clothing, living her full Beyoncé fantasy — all impossible, forbidden. “The notion was, when you’re gay, if you wanted to dress up as a girl, you wanted to be a girl. But that's not the case for me,” Marina says. She only settled in her sexuality, and discovered the fullest extent of her self expression, once she found her place in the queer community and amongst Manila’s nightlife.
The show’s finale aired at a special live crowning event, where Marina felt a flurry of feelings; happiness that Precious Paula Nicole will burn bright as the inaugural winner , but also a sadness . The other eliminated queens knew they didn’t win the crown months prior, as they filmed, but Marina’s fate was up in the air until the final episode aired. At a public event,about being the last to grieve her loss. Her vulnerability placed her as a paragon of grace and class.
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