Drag Race: what’s it done for queer culture?

Beyond Today

BBC

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This was the year that the world’s most famous drag queen, RuPaul, brought his critically-acclaimed TV show to the UK. The series has helped bring British drag queens and topics that affect the LGBT community to a wider audience. But, does appreciation of drag always mean there’s acceptance in society? In this episode we speak to Baby Lame, host of the official Drag Race UK podcast on BBC Sounds, to get the lowdown on life as a drag queen. We also talk to journalist and author Amelia Abraham about what happens when queer culture goes mainstream. You can listen to the Drag Race UK podcast on BBC Sounds, and watch the whole series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK on iPlayer. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Alicia Burrell and Rory Galloway Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.7	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.5	Every day we ask one big question about one big story. Today what has drag race done to queer culture?
0:27.0	The time has come. The UK's first drag race supersture.
0:34.0	The time has come to crown our queen.
0:37.0	We better start with a spoiler alert, hadn't we?
0:41.0	The UK's first Drag Race Superstar is...
0:46.0	If you've not seen the final episode of Drag Race UK, skip forward 20 seconds.
0:50.0	The Vivian.
0:54.0	I'll admit it right now.
0:58.0	That means absolutely nothing to me.
1:00.0	I've never watched an episode of Drag Race, but the rest of the Beyond Today team love it.
1:04.6	I'm made up. I've just won the first ever season of Drag Race UK. This is nuts!
1:10.6	That crown is going to look gorgeous.
1:13.4	Oh, I'm going to see me there washing the dishes in it.
1:17.6	And since RuPaul brought Drag Race to the UK, they've not exactly stopped talking about it.
1:23.0	Alicia and Rory are, I guess, probably the biggest drag race fans in the office.
1:29.2	They're producing today's episode.
1:30.6	Alicia's nodding.
1:31.6	Start your engines.
1:35.0	Yeah, so I call myself a drag race super fan.
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