![]() ![]() Quirky, irreverent and hilarious, the series’ popularity caught the attention of Viceland, who picked it up it now runs weekly as The Trixie & Katya Show. It ran for 68 episodes, some of which gained over a million views on YouTube. A year later, she teamed up with fellow Drag Race contestant Katya to start a web series called UNHhhh. She was already beloved by many Drag Race fans going into All Stars, thanks to her trademark over-the-top makeup (think Malibu mom with an overblown contour, then multiply that by a thousand) and the dry sense of humor she deployed on the seventh season of Drag Race, where she placed sixth. Which is how someone like Mattel (known out of drag as Brian Firkus) could rise to popularity as a kitschy-comedy-queen-slash-earnest-folk singer. ![]() Its contestants have gone on to help form and expand on that future, earning TV roles, stand-up tours and runway modeling gigs both in and out of drag. As the show has grown in popularity, it’s continually looked towards the future of drag, featuring everyone from old-school club kids to eccentric art queens. Each week, viewers queer and straight, from blue and red and purple states, are exposed not only to these queens’ talents, but also to them: struggles with coming out, addiction, homelessness, memories of the AIDS epidemic, successes and failures in their careers, relationships and supportive families. The jump was a testament to the show’s ever-increasing popularity - nearly a million people watched its VH1 debut.ĭrag Race has both benefited from and helped foster the changing relationship between mainstream American culture and drag – and, broadly, of LGBT culture. ![]() After eight seasons and the launch of two spin-off shows (the short-lived RuPaul’s Drag U and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, in which fan-favorite competitors from previous seasons of the flagship show return for another chance at glory), Drag Race moved from LGBT-focused TV channel Logo to VH1. Mattel is heir(ess) to a new and emerging legacy in drag, spurred on in part by the career of RuPaul herself and the success of her reality competition show Drag Race. But for Trixie Mattel - comedian, musician and, as of last week, winner of the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars - country music and drag go together like high heels and false lashes. It’s not everyday you see a drag queen playing an autoharp. ![]()
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