And it’s the home of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ placing the queens in close proximity to the ecosystem that surrounds the entertainment industry and the show.” It has become the new destination for queer creative types. “These days, everyone’s coming to Los Angeles. “I feel like we’ve been fed how fierce New York queens are for so long,” adds Luzon, who was a New Yorker herself when she first shantayed into the werk room a decade ago. queens slaying so hard,” says L.A.-based drag icon and Season 3 runner-up Manila Luzon. Meanwhile, Symone delivers an “unapologetically Black” blend of sass and class to “Drag Race,” matching her L.A. Gottmik (who prefers she/her pronouns when in drag) is not only the series’ first-ever transmasculine contestant but her punk-rock “gorge” looks and wicked humor have also made her a front-runner to snatch the crown.
Meet Symone and Gottmik, two queens with wildly different aesthetics and a similar trailblazing spirit from Season 13, currently running Fridays on VH1. Sign up for them.'s weekly newsletter here.L.A.-based drag queens Symone, left, and Gottmik, who are in the final stages of the current season of "RuPaul's Drag Race." (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)Īs fans of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” know, each season of the Emmy-winning reality competition delivers a breakout star whose charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent, to quote the series' namesake, earn them a place in the spotlight - even if they don’t go on to win. With co-signs from icons including Janet Jackson and Rihanna - and aspirations to be the self-proclaimed “Naomi Campbell of drag” - the stars are certain to align in Symone’s favor. After that? World domination is imminent, she told Vulture. Symone told Vogue she wants to act, tour, and dance. Now that Symone’s refined point of view has earned her legions of fans, she can go anywhere from here. They helped me become the best version of myself.” “Going onto the show, it was very important to me to have a point of view and to say something with my runways and with everything I was doing on the show. “They helped me hone in on who I wanted to be and how I wanted to present myself,” she told NYLON. In addition to invaluable personal support, the House of Avalon also gave Symone the edge she needed to take her drag to the next level. The artist is a member of The House of Avalon, a queer creative collective that met in her hometown and moved to Los Angeles together. While being from a small town in Arkansas has its limitations, it didn’t stop her from forging community. Like many queens before her, Symone insists that she didn’t come this far on her own.
Kandy Rose, Gottmik, Rosé, and Symone faced off in the finale. Rewatching episodes, I’m like, ‘I fucking did that.’” “I keep going back to being 16 years old and watching the show, and to now be a part of that legacy is insane,” she said “I grew up watching the show and looking up to these queens.
“I don’t think I fully understood what I was capable of ,” she said in a recent interview with Vogue. And like many aspiring drag queens, she first got a taste of that potential by watching the show as a teenager. Symone says winning Drag Race has only made her realize her potential as a drag auteur. “No matter where you’re from, no matter adversities or lack of resources, you can literally make what you want out of this life,” she said. When she made the final four, she told NYLON that winning the competition would represent possibility for other queer people of color like her. Symone has never been afraid to make a statement, and often used her platform on the show to speak out about the cultural and political moment. “I really wanted to take this opportunity to do some activism in my drag and personify that Black angelic being.”
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