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RuPaul
RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to two Billboard Music Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, five GLAAD Media Awards, and a Guinness World Rec…
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2026· 7 entries
“These mantras are set to align you with the truth of who you are,”
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Bleeding Cool: RuPaul's Stop! That! Train! Review: A Campy Railway Romp
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Just Jared: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 19 Rumored Cast Revealed – Meet the 14 Queens Reportedly Competing
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Yahoo: Quote Of The Day By RuPaul: 'You Are None Of The Superficial Things That This World Deems Important. The Real You Is...'
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Public attention spiked: 8,805 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 2,581, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 8,753 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 2,581, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “Good Luck and Don’t F%k It Up”.
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2024· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “"Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race."” False.
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Released album “Essential, Vol. 3”.
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2023· 3 entries
Released album “Essential Christmas”.
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Released album “Black Butta”.
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As well as Celebrity Lingo, a spinoff of the UK series of the same name on ITV
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “MAMARU”.
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As a producer of the Broadway musical A Strange Loop
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “RuPaul said he disagreed with the Biden administration's recognition of the Armenian genocide during WWI.” Labeled Satire.
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Released ep “RuPaul in London”.
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2020· 9 entries
Released ep “Hey Sis, It’s Christmas!”.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2020).
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Netflix announced that the series had been cancelled
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Released album “AJ and the Queen: Original Television Soundtrack”.
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Released album “You’re a Winner, Baby”.
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After RuPaul revealed that they lease mineral rights and sell water to oil companies on their ranch, and allow fracking there
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Found out while appearing on the TV show Finding Your Roots that he and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker are "DNA cousins
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A species of Australian soldier fly was named Opaluma rupaul
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Environmentalists criticized them in 2020 after RuPaul revealed that they lease mineral rights and sell water to oil companies on their ranch, and allow fracking there.
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2019· 6 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2019).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2019).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for You Need to Calm Down (2019).
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Released album “Queen of Queens”.
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Fortune noted RuPaul as "easily the world's most famous" drag queen
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Became the first drag queen inducted into the California Hall of Fame
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2018· 6 entries
Released album “Christmas Party”.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2018).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2018).
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RuPaul gave an interview to The Guardian in which he stated that a post-transition trans woman would "probably not" be accepted onto the show, noting that at the time of competition Peppermint had not yet had breast impl
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RuPaul received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry
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RuPaul was one of the actors who voiced the audiobook A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
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2017· 10 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2017).
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Released album “Essential, Vol. 2”.
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RuPaul released his eleventh studio album, American
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Released album “American”.
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Released album “Remember Me: Essential, Vol. 1”.
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RuPaul released the album Remember Me: Essential, Vol
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In New York City; the public is able to meet with RuPaul, former RuPaul's Drag Race contestants, and other drag queens
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RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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Peppermint became the first contestant to compete throughout her season as an openly trans woman and in 2021 Gottmik was the first to compete as an openly trans man
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Was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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2016· 6 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Famous drag queen RuPaul claimed he was groped by Donald Trump at a party in 1995.” False.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for RuPaul's Drag Race (2016).
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Awarded Emmy Award (2016).
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Released album “Butch Queen: Ru-Mixes”.
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Released album “Butch Queen”.
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And one year later the show garnered eight nominations, including Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Competition Program for the first time in its 11-season run, and a second consecutive win for RuPaul in the P
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2015· 6 entries
Released album “Realness”.
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RuPaul released his eighth studio album, Realness
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Released album “RuPaul Presents: Covergurlz 2”.
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Released album “Slay Belles”.
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Followed by RuPaul's DragCon NYC
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2014· 6 entries
RuPaul and Michelle Visage released the first episode of their podcast, RuPaul: What's the Tee
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Released album “Born Naked”.
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To coincide with the premiere of the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race
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Released album “RuPaul Presents: The Covergurlz”.
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RuPaul released RuPaul Presents The CoverGurlz, a collaborative album featuring new versions of RuPaul songs from 2009 to 2013
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Trans activists and former contestants Carmen Carrera and Monica Beverly Hillz criticized the show's use of words such as tranny and shemale, including the main challenge announcement phrase up to season 6, "You've got s
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2013· 1 entry
Released "Lick It Lollipop" featuring Lady Bunny
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Live Forever: Remixes”.
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With RuPaul returning as the main host and judge
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “SuperGlam DQ”.
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Released album “Glamazon”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Drag Race”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Champion”.
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And has gone on to produce eighteen seasons in the United States
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2008· 1 entry
Including Project Runway, as guest judge, and on Paula's Party as a guest "chef"
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Starrbooty: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2006· 2 entries
RuPaul released ReWorked, his first remix album
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Released album “Reworked”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Red Hot”.
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RuPaul released his fourth album, Red Hot, on his own RuCo Inc
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2002· 1 entry
Was featured on the Eurodance track "You're No Lady" alongside Brigitte Nielsen
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2000· 7 entries
“People ask, "Why do you dress like a woman?" I don't dress like a woman. I dress like a drag queen.”
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“What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do. I don’t choose projects so people don’t see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me.”
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“You're born naked. The rest is drag.”
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“If you can't love yourself how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Say amen!”
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“We love you and you're so welcome here. You know we as gay people we get to choose our family you know we get to choose the people that we are around. You know was I'm saying. I am your family, we are a family here. I love you.”
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“She's like a female phenomenon, she's a glamazon. A female phenomenon. A glama-z-a-a-on”
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“I will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”
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1999· 3 entries
RuPaul was awarded the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for work in promoting equality in the LGBTQ community
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Decided to get sober and has not had alcohol, drugs, or tobacco since then
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Five Producers Guild of America Awards, and a Guinness World Records title
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Ho Ho Ho”.
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Released his third album, the Christmas-themed Ho Ho Ho
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Foxy Lady”.
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Landed a talk show of his own on VH1, called The RuPaul Show interviewing celebrity guests and musical acts
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1994· 4 entries
Raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign
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At the Limelight nightclub in New York City
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Had a duet with Elton John who was of the superguests of the Sanremo Festival in Italy as superguests, one of the main festivals worldwide; the permance generated both positive and concerned reactions from the public
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Released "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", a duet with Elton John
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Supermodel of the World”.
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Released album “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About RuPaul *, * (But Were Afraid To Ask)”.
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RuPaul recorded the dance/house album Supermodel of the World
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“Supermodel (You Better Work)”
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1989· 1 entry
When he danced as an extra in the video for The B-52s' "Love Shack", and also appeared in Tom Rubnitz's video "Pickle Surprise"
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Rupaul Is Star Booty: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released ep “Sex Freak”.
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1982· 1 entry
Debuted on an Atlanta public access variety show called The American Music Show, and went on to appear on the show frequently
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1967· 1 entry
And his three sisters lived with their mother
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1960· 2 entries
Born 1960-11-17.
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The son of Ernestine "Toni" (née Fontenette) and Irving Andrew Charles
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