Drag: Last News

The thirteenth season of the well-loved LGBTQ franchise, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” just premiered, and the uber talented and fabulous lineup of 13 queens includes two from Atlanta. Tamisha Iman and LaLa Ri are representing the gay mecca of the South on the show. The two differ greatly in style and experience — Tamisha is a more classic pageant queen who has been in the industry for 30 years, while LaLa is only three years old and errs on the edgier side of drag — but the two were acquainted years ago before reuniting on the show. In fact, Tamisha, the matriarch of the massive Iman dynasty, was the first person to put LaLa into drag.

Trevor Ashley is back to celebrate Christmas with you in 2020 and he’s bringing his good friend Liza along for the ride in his show Ring Them Bells! A Very Liza Xmas at the Paddo RSL and Riverside Theatre in November and December.Accompanied by a sumptuous, yet socially distanced band led by Andy Davies, Liza will perform songs gorgeously arranged by James Simpson and will take you on a journey with stories from her childhood with Mama, under the tree.And you’re in good company, with Ashley performing the role of Liza Minnelli on stages around the globe including off Broadway at Sony Hall, the Vaudville Theatre for his West End debut and then returning to London twice more with his show Liza’s Back! (Is Broken).You might also be interested

Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas. The concert, co-hosted by Vanessa Willams (see pg.

Reality drag empires RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula are both releasing spooky Halloween specials later this month.

Legendary drag photographer Just Toby reads one of his recent articles he wrote for the Georgia Voice, Memoirs of the Atlanta Drag Scene, all about the different drag styles, performers, and scenes you can find across Atlanta. Watch below:

As TikTokkers are finding viral fame during lockdown with a myriad of entertaining dances and mindless hours throwing ping-pong balls into cups, Australian drag artists are sharing their own versions of the “#passthebrush” internet challenge.

Ella Fitzgerald at Ziegfeld’s/Secrets – File Photo by Ward Morrison

Australia’s biggest online vogue battle, music and drag performances, comedy sketches, hip hop, all this and more are coming to your screen this Saturday.

Jackie Beat and Sherry Vine (Photos courtesy of Beat and Vine)

Werq the World: Bianca Del Rio, Lady Bunny, Asia O’Hara