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BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Drag Race, RuPaul, The Scissor Sisters & More (w/ PEACHES CHRIST)

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

David Yontef

Society & Culture, News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

43K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Peaches Christ steps Behind The Rope. Legendary Drag Performer, Peaches Christ, that is. Born Joshua Grannell, Peaches takes us back to the beginning and what it was like growing up in a suburban Maryland town with a love of all things “alternative” - Horror Films, The Macabre, John Waters, Depeche Mode and The Pet Shop Boys, to name a few. That “alternative” also came with an early Queer Identity, which Peaches combined with her love of film, to enter film school. It was during her senior thesis at this film school that Peaches Christ was born. After film school, Peaches ultimately settled in San Francisco and voila her famed Midnight Mass live movie / drag/ musical extravaganza began. It shortly thereafter became a thing, a big thing, attracting the likes of RuPaul, The Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic, Elvira, and even John Waters himself. Speaking of RuPaul, we discuss that one time RuPaul basically announced he was starting a little show called “Drag Race” at one of Peaches’ Midnight Mass live events. Peaches discusses Drag Race and RuPaul, how far both have come from just starting out to this worldwide, for lack of a better word, “mainstream” part of Pop Culture! What about Showgirls, the sh*tstorm cult classic of a movie that was one of Peaches’ main inspirations for the Midnight Mass Movie Extravaganza? Do not worry, we have not forgotten. That is Part II. Stay tuned!! @thepeacheschrist @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope BROUGHT TO YOU BY: HIGHLAND TITLES - www.highlandtitles.com (Use Code VELVET for 15% Off Entire Site. Become a “Lord” Like Lord Scott Disick As Seen on The Kardashians) TALKSPACE - talkspace.com/velvet ($100 Off Your First Month) RAKUTEN - rakuten.com (Or Get The Rakuten App to Start Earning Cash Back Today When You Shop Over 3,500 Stores!) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact [email protected] MERCH Available at - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.8

Hey everyone, this is David.

0:52.3

Welcome back behind the velvet rope.

0:54.3

Let's just get right into it today, guys, because we are joined by the one,

0:58.9

the only miss,

1:01.7

peaches Christ.

1:03.6

Hello.

1:05.1

How are you doing today?

1:07.5

I'm okay.

1:08.5

Yeah, I mean, I feel like with 2020, it's more like, are you okay?

1:14.9

Seriously.

1:16.5

Yeah.

1:17.0

And you're on the East Coast, right?

1:18.7

Like, I mean, you live in San Francisco, right?

1:20.8

But you're on the East Coast visiting your mother.

1:22.5

Or am I just making that all up?

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