Shawn Morales
Shawn Morales (born July 21, 1978) is an American model, actor, and nightlife personality based in Los Angeles, California. RuPaul's Drag Race In 2011, while working as a gogo dancer at local gay bars, Shawn auditioned for the ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' "Pit Crew" (also known as the Scruff Pit Crew). They are a group of men who appear on each season of ''Drag Race''. The men of the Pit Crew are typically dressed only in their underwear, assisting RuPaul and contestants in various challenges on the reality show. They usually have no dialogue on the show, mainly appearing as "eye candy" for viewers and contestants. Morales became the first non-African-American man to join the Pit Crew, joining in season three. He would also go on to appear in RuPaul's music video for the song "Champion." Morales remained with the show until he was axed before Season 7 began. No reason ever was given for Morales' departure from the show, but after a well-circulated ''Huffington Post'' article about G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United States Census Bureau, U.S. census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Activision Blizzard, Universal Music Group, Starz Entertainment Corp., Starz Entertainment, Lionsgate Studios, Illumination (company), Illumination and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John Percival Jones, John P. Jones and Robert Symington Baker, Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which inc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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21st-century American LGBTQ People
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Living People
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1978 Births
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Orchid And Hound
Orchid and Hound is a pop duo composed of John Constantine and Lawrence Alarcon. Their music has been described as pop music paired with lush arrangements and strong vocal harmonies with influences of Björk, Jacques Brel and Queen. Early history and formation John Constantine and Lawrence Alarcon met as teenagers attending Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, one of top five art high schools in the U.S. They soon began dating, eventually moving to San Francisco's Tenderloin district together in 2006. Despite a tumultuous break-up, the two remained close, and in 2009 decided to formally establish a band. Orchid and Hound made their debut on September 22, 2009 at San Francisco gay bar The Stud. The name, according to Alarcon, refers to "the duality of heirpersonalities", with the orchid representing Alarcon's reserved nature and the hound describing Constantine's more outspoken tendencies. Gaining momentum (2009–present) The duo quickly followed up their debut with sev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alaska Thunderfuck
Justin Andrew Honard (born March 6, 1985), best known by the stage name Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 or Alaska Thunderfuck and Mononymous person, mononymously as Alaska, is an American drag queen and singer from Erie, Pennsylvania. She is best known as a runner-up on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5), fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and the winner of the RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars (season 2), second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Alaska co-hosts the web series ''Bro'Laska'' alongside her brother, Cory Binney. Her first studio album, ''Anus (album), Anus'', was released in 2015, followed by her second album, ''Poundcake (album), Poundcake'', in 2016, and her third album, ''Vagina (album), Vagina'', in 2019. Her fourth album, ''Red 4 Filth'', was released in 2022. Alaska is also a part of The AAA Girls, a drag group with Willam Belli, Willam and Courtney Act and hosts the podcast ''Race Chaser'' with Willam. Early life Honard was born to Andrew and Pam Honard ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Willam Belli
Willam Belli (, born June 30, 1982), mononymously known as Willam, is an American drag queen, actor, singer-songwriter, reality television personality, author, and YouTuber. Willam came to prominence as a contestant on the RuPaul's Drag Race season 4, fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2012. She was the first contestant to be disqualified from the competition. Before appearing on ''Drag Race'', Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy (producer), Ryan Murphy's medical drama ''Nip/Tuck''. She has continued to perform in a variety of films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, she appeared in the critically acclaimed film ''A Star Is Born (2018 film), A Star Is Born''. For her performance on the dark comedy web series ''EastSiders'', she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series, Outstanding Sup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pandora Boxx
Michael Steck (born May 2, 1972), better known by the stage name Pandora Boxx, is an American drag queen, comedian, reality television personality, and singer. Hailing from Rochester, New York, Boxx competed in the second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', placing fifth and winning the title of Miss Congeniality, and subsequently returned for the first and sixth seasons of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Boxx also appeared in all three seasons of the ''Drag Race'' spin-off series '' RuPaul's Drag U''. Outside of reality television, Pandora Boxx has released several singles and performed in film, television, and theater. Early life Michael Steck was born to Sharon Steck in Jamestown, New York. He has a sister, Susanne. The family later moved to Olean, New York. Steck was inspired to do drag after watching the eventual season six contestant Darienne Lake perform at an outdoor festival in Rochester, New York. For his first show at the gay bar Infinity in Rochester, Steck chos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mathu Andersen
Mathu Andersen is a make-up artist, costume designer, and photographer. Andersen has collaborated with RuPaul and was previously in a relationship with fashion designer Zaldy. Career Andersen has a background in fashion and textile design. He and RuPaul collaborated for many years, until the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race; Andersen initially did RuPaul's hair and make-up, and later directed challenges and became a creative producer on the show. He was a guest judge on season two's "Here Comes the Bride" (2010), and he was a special guest on the fourth season's " The Final Three" (2012), the fifth season's " The Final Three, Hunty" (2013), the sixth season's " Sissy That Walk" (2014), and the seventh season's (2015) premiere episode ("Born Naked") and twelfth episode (" And the Rest Is Drag"). Andersen was nominated in the Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic) category at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2015 for his work on " ShakesQue ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4)
The fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is the fourth series, which began airing on January 30, 2012, and aired its final episode on April 30 of the same year. The cast members were announced November 13, 2011. The winner of season four headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, and also won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of NYX Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Like the previous season, Santino Rice and Billy B (Billy Brasfield), celebrity makeup artist and star of the HGTV mini-series ''Hometown Renovation'', shared the same seat at the judges table alternatively, Brasfield filling in for Rice when needed. Both judges appeared side-by-side in the audience during the "Reunited" episode. The theme song played during the runway every episode was "Glamazon" and the song played during the credits was "The Beginning", both from RuPaul's album '' Glamazon''. This is the first season in which a contestant, Willam Belli, was disqualified from the co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular
''RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular'' was a holiday television special, which aired on VH1 on December 7, 2018. The hour-long ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' special, announced on November 1, had former ''Drag Race'' contestants Eureka O'Hara, Jasmine Masters, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Mayhem Miller, Shangela, Sonique, and Trixie Mattel compete to become "''Drag Race'' Christmas Queen". The contestants had to lip-sync to holiday music by RuPaul, including tracks from '' Slay Belles'' (2015) and '' Christmas Party'' (2018), to choreography by Todrick Hall. Jasmine Masters and Latrice Royale later competed in fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', which was previewed during the programme's airing and premiered one-week after the ''Holi-slay Spectacular'' and placing 10th and 5th, respectively. Mayhem Miller later competed in fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', placing 7th. Eureka O'Hara and Sonique later competed in sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |