THE HOUSE OF RUPAUL

A NEW MEMOIR, THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS, UNLOCKS ROOMS IN THE EARLY LIFE OF THE DRAG RACE MOGUL, MUSICIAN, AND ICON

by bernardo sim

WHEN I FOUND MY TRUE TRIBE, WHAT WE HAD IN COMMON WAS THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. WE WERE BOHEMIANS WHO RECOGNIZED THAT THE EMPEROR WASN’T WEARING ANY CLOTHES. OUR CREED WAS ‘DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE SUPERFICIAL, GET TO THE REALNESS.’ RuPaul is the world’s most famous drag queen, with a reality competition queendom beloved by millions of viewers internationally. But his first and most important audience, as he reminds himself during his dressing-room rituals, was a party of one. “My mother loved it every time I performed for her,” RuPaul writes in his new memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings, which recounted how his first stage was in his childhood living room with impersonations of Tina Turner and Carol Burnett. “When I go onstage now, I remind myself, like a little…

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