RuPaul's Drag Race Hopes to Expand to Uganda, Russia and Iran

[mystery-ak]

 

RuPaul's Drag Race Hopes to Expand to Uganda, Russia and Iran
By Ben Kew | 1:30 PM on April 11, 2023

The creator of the controversial television show RuPaul’s Drag Race is hoping to take the concept to far-flung locations, including those with less than favorable laws toward LGBT people.

In an interview with inews, co-creator Fenton Bailey said he hoped to take the concept around the world to improve tolerance for LGBT rights.

Sometimes people say, ‘Isn’t there too much Drag Race?’ I say no, because even though drag has always existed there are still countries where it is oppressed or forbidden. And so to me, what’s worth getting out of bed for, is to figure out how to make Drag Race China, or Drag Race Russia, or Drag Race Iran, because — although not didactically a political show — the message of Drag Race, of individuality and self-invention, of live-and-let-live, is what we need.

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https://redstate.com/benkew/2023/04/11/rupauls-drag-race-hopes-to-expand-to-uganda-russia-and-iran-n729764

[mystery-ak]

Oh please..Iran would love to have it there..................../s

You might want to look at Afghanistan too!

[bigheadfred]

Drag Race Iran: Participants are dragged behind vehicles through the streets with a log chain.

[mountaineer]

Uganda’s anti-gay bill is the latest and worst to target LGBTQ Africans
By Aditi Bhandari
Published April 7, 2023  05:30 AM EDT

On March 21, Uganda's parliament passed a bill that would criminalise identifying as LGBTQ and compels citizens to report those who do to authorities. It extends an existing ban on gay sex, further banning “promoting” homosexuality and prescribes the death penalty for certain crimes that involve same-sex activity.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has not yet signed the bill, which, if it becomes law, stands to become one of the most severe criminal statutes targeting LGBTQ people in Africa.

More than half Africa’s 54 nations prohibit consensual same-sex activity, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).  ... https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UGANDA-LGBT/movakykrjva/

[GtHawk]

Drag Race Iran: Participants are dragged behind vehicles through the streets with a log chain.

Don't forget the lucky contestants treated to flying lessons from atop tall buildings.

[mountaineer]

Don't forget the lucky contestants treated to flying lessons from atop tall buildings.

And away we go!

[berdie]

I had no idea Ru Paul was suicidal.

[Wingnut]

Finally a show to die for.

[andy58-in-nh]

Don't forget the lucky contestants treated to flying lessons from atop tall buildings.

[GtHawk]

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

They'll need to change the name of the show to "Ru Paul's Public Execution".