| If you were a woman and I was a man. That's how RuPaul opened the closing song on his second album Foxy Lady. It's just one of the many gender blurring, tongue in cheek moments RuPaul has embraced over the course of his career as the worlds foremost drag queen and Supermodel of the World. |  |
| RuPaul is a phenomenon of the 90's. He gained cult status with the release of his almost top forty hit “Supermodel (You Better Work)” (Expertly covered by Taylor Dayne for The Lizzie McGuire Movie). This success came right after the true scare of the AIDS epidemic and came as a result of MTV putting his music video on high rotation. |  |
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Not only was RuPaul an openly gay man in drag. He was black. He made it through so much adversity to make it to that point, and even though he's never had a song chart as well or as popularly he's maintained his foot in the music business.
 | There is no doubt in my mind that RuPaul was discriminated against and treated unfairly in his life. That's why it amazes me how loving he is. How willing he is to embrace everyone. That's what his reputation was. The family friendly drag queen. This reputation was hurt early on when he was molested by co-presenter Milton Berle at the MTV awards and ad libbed during their presentation. This was not the 'everybody say love' mentality that was expected of him. He was already on faulty rocks with the public just being a drag queen, but this didn't help either of his follow up singles gain radio success. |
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| From that point he hosted a talk show on VH1, guested on All of My Children, dueted with Elton John on “Don't Go Breaking My Heart”, released an autobiography, a slew of dance club hits, until he eventually landed RuPaul's Drag Race on Logo. I just have so much admiration for this man. It might be too much too put on him to say that he taught me to love. Not only other people, but myself. My parents don't know that I love RuPaul. When I was 15, I bought one of his albums. |  |
 RuPaul and Lady Gaga performing Fashion! |  RuPaul and Tyler Oakley on RuPaul's YouTube series Driving |
 | My mother found it be vulgar (Mind you I owned Madonna's Erotica at this point) and couldn't believe that I would listen to anything that promoted the homosexual lifestyle. I don't know what she was worried about. Listening to RuPaul was not going to make me gay. Needless to say. She threw it away one day. I couldn't believe it. I was so hurt. That's when I realized the kind of injustice there was. My mother hated him, because he was gay. That was her reason. It had nothing to do with the lyrical content. It had to do with who was singing it. |
RuPaul as both Barack and Michelle Obama
 | Let's not forget that Madonna's song “Deeper and Deeper” is about a boy coming to terms with his homosexuality. I was listening to things that accepted the lifestyle. I don't even know what to make of that. This isn't a problem, sent from hell to destroy the world. That's what 2012 was for. |
It did nothing to make me not like RuPaul. I suppose I was supposed to revile him, because he's gay. I didn't I loved him still, and now here I am. Still obsessed with RuPaul and his show, still loving life. Let's not forget that he's a sexy drag queen. It was bound to happen that he needed a Snapshot Saturday.
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