Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.
Brian Jordan Alvarez, known for his role as Estefan Gloria on Will & Grace as well as for his popular web series The Gay and Wonderous Life of Caleb Gallo tells us how he’s spent the entire quarantine locked down in his apartment, and how much he misses his friends.
Lucky for us, Alvarez keeps himself busy making YouTube comedy videos, even collaborating with his Will & Grace co-star Sean Hayes for one recent entry. In his (ample) spare time, he confesses that he’s gone back to binge a familiar title.
“I’m watching RuPaul’s Drag Race,” he admits. “I didn’t see every season, and I know some of the queens, so I thought I’d go back and watch. Some of the early seasons have really rough video, but the show is still watchable.
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Cam
The video may be rough but those early seasons have people like Tammy Brown, Shannell, Raven, JuJuBee, Sharon Needles, Manila, etc… Some really really fun seasons!
davegun2
And Me. Fortuna Monsoon, aka Super Trooper Season 5 episode 10.
justgeo
SORRY I AM SO TIRED OF DRAG QUEENS!!!!!!!! Find something else—PLEASE!
Joshooeerr
100%. It’s about time more gay men spoke up about the self-evident misogyny of drag, which is merely the gender equivalent of blackface.
theafricanwiththemouth
@Joshooeerr drag is in no way misogynistic you confused fukc!! Also, equating it to blackface at all shows you have zero understanding on what blackface is (especially it’s murky history) or even what misogyny means, dumbas?!!
If you don’t like drag, then shut the fukc up and move along instead of vomiting stupidity!!
Jared MacBride
what @theafricanwiththemouth said. Blackface is a straight up unacceptable denigration of people of a particular race. Drag doesn’t denigrate women in any way shape or form.
Neoprene
I went to one drag show in my early 20’s at an off campus bar. It was Miss Indiana University or Miss Bloomington or something. The whole time I thought: This is it? This is what people are getting so excited about? Fat guys in women’s clothing/wigs with pounds of makeup on and silly names lip syncing. The only thing I liked was the contestant who lip synced to Donna Summer’s “Protection.” A song given to her by Bruce Springsteen, lol. I knew right then I needed to move to a city with a good gay sports league. Of course, our sports league’s major fund raisers? Drag shows!