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, who auditioned at the behest of his mother, says, adding that the general population of people in middle America knew only RuPaul and what they saw on, where drag entertainers were sometimes featured as carnival-like freaks on display."Drag wasn't really something that you were paid a lot of money to go and do. If you made $100 or $150 for a booking you made great money."
Contributing to the stigma was general confusion as to what exactly the show would be. After all, there was no precedent for a drag competition series, let alone a reality TV series comprised of an entirely queer cast. Watkins, for instance, says he was toldwould be a team competition featuring a drag queen and his fashion designer assistant. Sotomayor says he expected it to be something akin to, where contestants would share a living space and have photoshoots.
"There were still a lot of people that didn't even know I was the winner of Season 1," Ngwa admits of his time after the show, saying he and his fellow contestants were not given a reason as to why the show had been pulled."It's so funny because now there's already this blueprint for all of the artists on the show and all of these opportunities flood to them, but with us we had to create our own opportunities, even still to this day.
But others love it for that very reason."That's the beautiful thing about how the show has progressed," Shannel said."As seasons have gone on, you've seen a much larger explosion of over the top wardrobe and really truly couture fashion that is being revered in a way that it didn't always used to." That said, he calls the current format of the show"very predictable.
"It's just turned into something totally different," Sotomayor says."But I still enjoy it. It's awesome to see the way that these queens now are getting so much love. And it actually worked. We got people to see who we are, what we do and embrace us." And that right there, that legacy, might have been lost for a period but can never be erased."Honestly I hope the format continues to change. I don't want it to get stagnant and for people to get bored of it.
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