“Drag has always made fun of anything people take too seriously.” RUPAUL GOT HIS FIRST BREAK IN 1989, AS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BACKUP dancer in the music video for the B-52s hit “Love Shack.” Before then, he was a struggling performer dancing in bars or fronting his band, Wee Wee Pole, in Atlanta’s gay-scruffy music scene. After moving to New York City—becoming a key member of the Pyramid Club’s drag revolution—Ru made a leap from the fringes to the mainstream, beginning with music. His first hit single, “Supermodel (You Better Work),” was prophetic, because he hasn’t stopped, creating a TV reality show spinoff empire that began on Logo in 2008 with the Emmy-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race, which starts its 10th season, on VH1, on March 22.
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