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Here’s an excerpt from a great interview with RuPaul done by writer Rich Juzwiak:

“Everything is fake,” he said. “Once you’ve seen ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ you have all you need to know about this world: What you think and what is are completely separate. But what you think is also real because you’ve made it real! I delivered the line. Celine Dion doesn’t write the songs, but they’re hers.”

If anyone wears the “everything is fake” maxim on his uniform sleeve, certainly it is the drag queen. It’s striking how much RuPaul’s worldview falls in line with his career, so I asked if he came to drag holding these beliefs, or if his job prompted them.

“I had to dissociate to be able to realize who I really am,” he said, erring more to the latter. “Because I’m not this body. I’ve had a great time with this body. It’s fabulous, it’s beautiful, and everybody’s is beautiful. I want to drive the bad-ass car around the block. I want to see what it can do. Take it out on the highway, the Autobahn. That’s the goal. It would be a shame to own a big, beautiful gorgeous car and not use all the things it can do.”

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