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    The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul review: This drag queen does not care if you hate him — it’s how he succeeded

    by Joe Bromley Mar 08, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: HarperCollins

    It’s not hard to dislike RuPaul. The world’s most famous drag queen, and mastermind behind the RuPaul’s Drag Race multi-million pound empire, is garish and rich, a bit detached and personally tied to a fracking farm fortune. Everyone has an opinion — and in the back of drag clubs, queens still swap rumours about his on-set behaviour over Marlboro Touches.

    It is more difficult to work out where the malice stems from — in terms of the queens, I suspect it

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