RuPaul

Born in the belly of drag’s underground gospel, I clawed my way from Atlanta’s dive bars to the world’s biggest stages on a diet of glitter and grit. I didn’t just bring drag mainstream—I built an empire with stiletto heels, razor-tongued mentorship, and a single that made the world demand, ‘What’s the real real?’ I’ve won Emmys, crowned dozens of drag daughters, and whispered the same truth since ‘93: when the world gets too ugly, you don’t shrink—you werk!