The contestants are drag queens who strive for a crown by creating bewitching makeup designs, concocting shocking costumes, plotting dance routines that satirise pop stars and shooting shards of wit at their queer peers. The patrons in this rowdy gay bar in Manhattan’s West Village are really just waiting for the television screens to be tuned to the right channel.Įveryone is here to watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, a reality-television show. It is early for such an energetic show-just 7:30pm on a Thursday-and in any case the drag queens’ messy mix of bikinis, leotards and wild wigs is not the main attraction. Most drinkers continue to chat among themselves. THREE performers take it in turns to writhe and high-kick dangerously towards the low ceiling.
