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Ladies, Start Your Cha-Cha Heels

You better worrrrrrrrrrk it: RuPaul wants YOU!
by Kate X Messer May 14, 2008September 30, 2025

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News from the runway: RuPaul will host a new reality show that explores the illusion of reality (or reality of illusion?), called RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Helloooooo? Where our faboo Austin ladies at? Come on, darlings, there is still time for you to go online and submit your sashay on the runway.

This article appears in May 9 • 2008.

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