“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is returning for a 13th season, and the brand-new cast was announced on Wednesday (November 9). For the first time ever, the cast includes an out trans man. Gottmik is a Los Angeles-based makeup artist. “I need to be the first trans winner of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’ Period,” Gottmik said in a Meet the Queens interview. “The more and more I got comfortable with my gender identity, the more I got to play with the drag/Gottmik side, and now that it’s solely my art, it’s just the best thing in the world… It means so much for me to be on the show right now, especially being a trans guy going in – a feminine perspective of a trans guy.
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