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But really, the big news besides the (gimmicky) vote for the next contestants roster on the website, is that there will be another season. If you didn’t happen to catch it, you can still watch each episode at Logoonline.com and it is really worth your time. TRUST. The reason? It’s like Project Runway with drag queens. Sure, most of the contestants were not that much better than your average reality competition (Nina Flowers, Bebe Zahara Benet, and Ongina excepted). You had the insufferable, the tragic, the naive, the bitch and charity case and what not. No, the real excitement about Drag Race is that RuPaul kept it real, making sure that portions of the show were dedicated to our drag fore-mothers, included vogue balls as a key moment in history, and finally in the reunion, made sure to acknowledge hate and discrimination in a powerful blow up scene that had me crying. See, RuPaul knew this would be his chance to step it up, and among all the genuine fun that was had (it was…so, so godamn fun) there was some realness thrown in. Being a drag queen is tough shit–I was just talking to a friend who was watching season 4 of project runway and lamented that she couldn’t love Christian Siriano as much as she wanted to because of his derogatory use of the word “tranny” and how he went on to say that “drag queens were the white trash of the gay community.” I know that Siriano is young and dumb, but he did influence a lot of young gay boys to go around saying tranny this and tranny that, I can’t imagine the impression he left about drag queens. This is the kind of casual ignorance abound within our own community, and Drag Race is here to make you WALK IT OFF, GURL. Anyhow, I cannot wait for what Rupaul has in store for season 2, let’s hope they take some of that vaseline off the lens and have more episodes! And if you are a drag performer, make a vid and show off your Chicago-style tuck!