![]() “I was really rooting for Bob, so I was really happy that Bob was able to win.” “Bob is hitting it out of the park for me,” GIRL DON’T GAG performer Joshua Hurt concurred. “Bob was the best this week, so he deserved to win,” Jeffrey Rodriguez told me. Contestants Chi Chi DeVayne, Naomi Smalls, and Thorgy Thor-whom I caught hosting Drag Race last week at Metropolitan-also shone bright during the maxi challenge, but what Bob delivered bordered on blinding.Īnd I wasn’t the only viewer who thought so. Henson’s Cookie Lyons during a challenge that saw the queens split off into two groups in order to act out scenes satirizing Lee Daniels’ Empire. I, like many others, was totally enamored by Cynthia and her tireless plight to “legalize sex.” I also shared my friend Tommy’s all lowercase awe for Bob, who brilliantly embodied an exaggerated take on Taraji P. ![]() Cynthia Lee Fontaine sashayed away following a lip synch to Faith Evans’ “Mesmerized” against Robbie Turner (on roller skates!). This week’s episode of Drag Race saw Bob the Drag Queen take home her very first win after weeks of repeatedly just missing the mark. So if you’ve got to wake up early for work Tuesday morning, this might be the full Drag Race viewing party experience for you. The event’s post- Drag Race set list wasn’t quite as extensive as the viewing parties I attended at Flowers For All Occasions’ or Metropolitan’s, but I also got home by, like, 11:30 p.m. The night kicked off with a two-room Drag Race viewing party, dipped into custom BCALLA raffles (I lost, twice), and closed with a room full of gays raining singles down on drag performers Hannah Lou, Joshua Hurt, and Horrorchata herself. The evening was also sponsored by House of La Rue, a clubwear boutique slash candy-colored wig shop that recently opened for business at 106 Thames St off the Morgan stop. I don’t know where he caught the episode, but I watched it at GIRL DON’T GAG, Don Pedro’s new weekly event series hosted by Brooklyn queen and Bushwig co-founder Horrorchata and BCALLA designer Brad Callahan. That’s the text message I got from my friend Tommy exactly 49 minutes after Monday night’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race finished airing. This week, I hit up Don Pedro, located at 90 Manhattan Ave off the Montrose L and the Lorimer JMZ. That’s why I’m recapping the eighth season of Logo’s annual drag queen competition with a series of posts written based on my experiences watching each episode at a different bar in Brooklyn (and who knows, maybe even other boroughs). RuPaul’s Drag Race is as much about the series itself as it is about the ways in which queer viewers relate to it.
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