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Princess Poppy (drag Queen)
Princess Poppy is the stage name of Thomas Schmidt, an American drag performer who competed on season 15 of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Career Princess Poppy competed on season 15 of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. She was the second contestant eliminated from the competition, after losing a lip sync against Amethyst to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross. Princess Poppy's look for the reunion episode paid tribute to season 1 contestant Rebecca Glasscock. Personal life Princess Poppy was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Meckl ... and is based in San Francisco. References External links * Living people American drag queens Drag performers from San Francisco RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Year of birth missing (living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's DragCon LA
RuPaul's DragCon LA is an annual expo of drag culture held in Los Angeles billed as a "convention that celebrates 'the art of drag, queer culture and self-expression for all'", which debuted in 2015. Its sister event is RuPaul's DragCon NYC started in 2017, and is considered the "world's largest celebration of drag culture." The event is an outgrowth of the internationally successful ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', which generated ''Drag Race Thailand'', ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'', '' RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars,'' and Chile's '' The Switch Drag Race''. ''RuPaul's Drag Race and'' the DragCons come from World of Wonder Entertainment (WOW), a production company based in Los Angeles. At RuPaul's DragCon LA, past ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' contestants and other well-known drag artists meet with fans, take pictures, sign autographs, and sometimes perform or take part in a discussion panel, as well as sell merchandise. The discussion panels vary from more obvious topics like clothing, fashio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total of twelve number-one hit singles on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, including " Where Did Our Love Go", " Baby Love", " Come See About Me", and " Love Child". Following departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross embarked on a successful solo career in music, film, television and on stage. Her eponymous debut solo album featured the U.S. number-one hit " Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and music anthem " Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". It was followed with her second solo album, '' Everything Is Everything'' (1970), which spawned her first UK number-one single " I'm Still Waiting". She continued her successful solo career by mounting elaborate record-set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drag Performers From San Francisco
Drag or The Drag may refer to: Places * Drag, Norway, a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway * ''Drág'', the Hungarian name for Dragu Commune in Sălaj County, Romania * Drag (Austin, Texas), the portion of Guadalupe Street adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin Science and technology * Drag (physics), the force which resists motion of an object through a fluid ** Drag equation, a mathematical equation used in analyzing the magnitude of drag caused by fluid flow ** Drag coefficient, a non-dimensional coefficient that is one of the terms in the drag equation ** Aerodynamic drag, the aerodynamic force which resists motion of an aircraft or other object through the air ** Drag crisis, a rapid change in drag coefficient over a small range of Reynolds number ** Drag parachute, a parachute to reduce the speed of vehicles * Park drag, a type of carriage * Police drag, a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water * Drag harrow, in ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Drag Queens
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Gay Times
''Gay Times'' (stylized in all caps), also known as ''Gay Times Magazine'' and as ''GT'', is a UK-based LGBTQ+ media brand established in 1975. Originally a magazine for gay and bisexual men, the company now includes content for the LGBTQ+ community across a number of outlets, including a monthly magazine, a website updated daily with news and culture content, and a number of social-media platforms. Publication and content ''GAY TIMES Magazine'' is published digitally each month in the United Kingdom and distributed globally, and includes interviews, fashion, news, features, music, film, style and travel. ''GAY TIMES'' also features an online site as well as social promotion channels under the brand name. The magazine is published by GAY TIMES Ltd. The current CEO of GAY TIMES Ltd. is Tag Warner, who was appointed in January 2019. The magazine ceased print publication in September 2021 and now releases a digital issue each month via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making Charlotte the List of United States cities by population, 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the seventh most populous city in Southern United States, the South, and the second most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose 2020 population of 2,660,329 ranked List of metropolitan statistical areas, 22nd in the U.S. Charlotte metropolitan area, Metrolina is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2020 census-estimated population of 2,846,550. Between 2004 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's Drag Race (season 1)
The first season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race'' premiered in the United States on February 2, 2009, on Logo. Nine contestants were selected to compete in the running of becoming "America's Next Drag Superstar." The first season was filmed during the summer of 2008. The winner of the first season won a cash prize of $20,000, $5,000 worth of MAC Cosmetics, was featured in an LA Eyeworks campaign, and joined the Logo Drag Race tour. One of the nine contestants to compete on ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', Nina Flowers was determined by an audience vote via the show's official website to be the season's Miss Congeniality. The results were announced in early September 2008. The theme song playing during the runway every episode was " Cover Girl" from RuPaul's album '' Champion''. This season and season one of '' All Stars'' are the only seasons to not feature the " Snatch Game". The winner of the first season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' was BeBe Zahara Benet, with Nina Flowers as the runner-up. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PinkNews
''PinkNews'' is a UK-based online newspaper marketed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT) in the UK and worldwide. It was founded by Benjamin Cohen in 2005. It closely follows political progress on LGBT rights around the world, and carries interviews with cultural figures and politicians. The news is split into different sections, with most recent, prominent and trending stories showing on the home page by default. People can filter news by the sections they have most interest in, including: ''transgender'', ''entertainment'', ''world'', ''politics'', ''arts'', and ''opinion''. ''PinkNews'' pays special attention to the topic of religion and homosexuality. It became one of the few LGBT publications to have interviewed an incumbent Archbishop of Canterbury in 2014, when Justin Welby discussed the Church of England's approach to homosexuality. ''PinkNews'' runs the PinkNews Awards, which launched in 2013 and take place annually in Westminster. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is a song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla label, a division of Motown. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and became a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes frontwoman Diana Ross. The song became Ross's first solo number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Background The song was written by Ashford and Simpson prior to joining Motown. British soul singer Dusty Springfield wanted to record the song but the duo declined, hoping it would give them access to the Detroit-based label. As Valerie Simpson later recalled, "We played that song for her (Springfield) but wouldn't give it to her, because we wanted to hold that back. We felt like that could be our entry to Motown. Nick called it the 'golden egg'." Springfield recorded a similar verse melody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drag Queen
A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. Historically, drag queens have usually been gay men, and part of gay culture. People partake in the activity of ''doing drag'' for reasons ranging from self-expression to mainstream performance. Drag shows frequently include lip-syncing, live singing, and dancing. They occur at events like LGBT pride parades, carnivals and drag pageants and in venues such as cabarets and nightclubs. Drag queens vary by type, culture, and dedication, from professionals who star in films and spend a lot of their time in their drag persona, to people who do drag only occasionally. Those who do occasional drag may be from other backgrounds than the LGBT community. There is a long history of folkloric and theatrical crossdressing that involves people of all orientations. Not everyone who does drag at some point in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amethyst (drag Queen)
Amethyst (real first name Zach) is an American drag performer who competed on season 15 of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. Career Amethyst is a drag performer. Charlie Grey of ''Queerty'' has described her as a " TikTok-grown comedy queen". Amethyst competed on season 15 of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. She was eliminated following the design challenge, after placing in the bottom two three times. She impersonated Tan Mom for the Snatch Game challenge. Personal life Amethyst is from Terryville and West Hartford, Connecticut. She had dated fellow contestant Robin Fierce Robin Fierce is the stage name of Rashawn Lee Jr. (born October 15, 1995), an American drag performer who competed on the fifteenth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Rashawn Lee Jr. was born to Rashawn Lee Sr. in Brooklyn, and rai ... prior to appearing on ''Drag Race''. Discography Mixtapes Singles References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amethyst 1995 births Living people Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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