Rupaul's Drag Race Heating Up With Some Terrific Tranny-Uploaded Video

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Written by jay

Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:13

The nation's first great super-tranny, Rupaul, is getting up there in years, and in contemplating her legacy she has teamed with gay cable channel Logo and World of Wonder to produce Rupaul's Drag Race, a combo Project Runway/Top Model where trannies and their stylist/hag pals team up to make outfits, do makeup and stage memorable numbers. Though the show won't air until early 2009 (we know, we're dying too), the competition for getting cast is already getting fa-roche, with online voting for Round 1 set to close on June 27th. We're sort of partial to the likes of SF queens like Candi Gurl and Putanesca, or bizarro Old Hollywood-ish characters like Tammie Brown and Cassandra Forever. But the queens getting the most votes so far are the ones who have gone to the trouble of uploading videos of themselves, either performing or, Real World-confessional-style, telling us their lives on tape. The best of breed, after the jump.

(Apologies if the video players are a little janky-blame Metacafe.)

The best video we've seen, by far, in the performance-art spirit of Trannyshack, is this one by San Francisco's Raya Light (who wore the Miss Trannyshack crown in 2006). Spoiler: It involves a crack pipe, and it features Patti LaBelle's scary rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Apparently it's a requirement of every hinterlands tranny that they do "Alone" by Heart. CassandraForever of Irvine, CA did it, Denver's own GingerSext did it, as did Denver's Nina Flowers, but by far the most glorious rendition comes from the current voter favorite, JessicaDimon of Ludlow, Kentucky. No offense, but Jessica had better concentrate less on the special effects and work more on her lip syncing if she's going to get anywhere in this game.

There aren't a lot of NYC queens in the running, maybe because they already consider themselves stars, but we did see Dina Davenport on there, and this one, Chochalicious, who's apparently played a lot of hos in her day.

And though we don't approve of putting up a video without your makeup on, we just want to share with you self-described "big ball of party," Georgia's own Mikaila Andrews, out of drag, discussing why s/he's an entertainer.

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