Fenton Bailey is one of the most influential people in the world you’ve (probably) never heard of His production company is responsible for RuPaul’s Drag Race 🎙️ PatrickStrud meets the TV mogul
“In some ways, I think it’s very simple,” he says, with an accent that’s largely southern English, dotted with American inflections, after 40 years living there. “It’s like bullies at school, picking on who they think is the weak target. It’s great to create a climate of fear — pointing out what doesn’t seem normal to distract from the fundamental complexities that our political leaders are unable to deal with. It’s a distraction policy.
“We will prevail,” he says. But the money and power behind the anti-trans, anti-drag movement is vast — the entire Republican party for one. Other high profile individuals use their own personal platforms to advance their message. Bailey stops, momentarily forgetting the name of one of the most famous critics of trans rights. “Who’s the Harry Potter lady?” JK Rowling, I say.
Halfway through talking, I begin to wonder what’s driving the ambition — what, as therapists sometimes say, is the shadow. “I was horribly bullied at boarding school,” he says. The bullying of the young “sissy” boy, as he puts it, was violent. Some gay kids retreat, but not Bailey. on television, the seminal film about Quentin Crisp, the self-described “stately homo of England”, which sees him defiantly sashay through net-curtain-ed, mid-century Britain — awash with prudishness and prejudice — with a painted face, a swish of colourful scarves, and a bright orange barnet. Crisp, towards the end of his life, moved to New York City and found peace, of sorts.
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