He has my vote!

In an effort to proactively derail any forthcoming scandals, Arizona governor candidate Noah Dyer has decided to be (remarkably) transparent about his sex life on his campaign website.

His campaign’s statement reads:

Noah has had both deep and casual sexual experiences with all kinds of women. He is an advocate of open relationships. He’s had group sex and sex with married women. He has sent and received intimate texts and pictures, and occasionally recorded video during sex. Noah has always been forthright with his partners. All of his relationships have been legal and consensual, never coercive, or abusive, and he condemns such behavior. Noah is unapologetic about his sexual choices, and wishes others the same safety and confidence as they express themselves.

Well, OK then!

He describes himself as a “socially responsible moderate” who “believes government transparency is a critical issue for 21st century voters.” He says he “has a unique willingness to be open with voters about political and personal matters.”

Hooray for him. An honest politician, imagine that! And as long as it’s all consensual and not abusive, who gives a flip?

Check out the HuffPo interview below.

The Huffington Post: What inspired you to be so radically and publicly transparent about your sex life?
Noah Dyer: I feel like voters around the country, but particularly in Arizona, feel disenfranchised with the political process because they feel like politicians are dishonest. Certainly that’s not true of every single politician, but I wanted to make a big statement that I wanted to be honest, I wanted to be transparent and I’m going to tell things to voters the way they are and not hold back. I think voters are tired of politicians deciding what they can and can’t hear. They want politicians who will give them information and let them make decisions for themselves.

Was any of this inspired by previous political sex scandals? Did you see those things happening and think, “I don’t want that to be me,” or was it more about your own personal decision to be honest in your approach to your sex life and sexuality?
More the latter. Most political scandals aren’t just sex — there’s some kind of illegal or otherwise troublesome activity taking place. I have’t done anything like that. But, I’ve always been open. Nobody would have to do deep opposition research to find this stuff. It’s all there on the internet. I didn’t want somebody to expose it as though I was embarrassed about any of it or as though they had to dig it up. So I figured consolidating it into a single handy-dandy reference was better than leaving it to the internet and journalists and my opposition or whomever else to put it all together.

Tell me more about what the response has been like. Have you heard from anyone who’s said they wouldn’t vote for you because of your statement?
An incredibly small amount — honestly like maybe two people out of one hundred [have said they wouldn’t vote for me because of it]. The vast majority of people have said, “Your strategy is refreshing… you’re a human and I want to vote for a candidate who’s human. I don’t need a candidate who’s perfect and your platform resonates with me.”

I’ve gotten a couple of messages that have been, “You’re a disgusting person and you need to repent” or whatever but it’s been overwhelmingly positive. There’s a [publication] I’ve never heard of before — a sports-related publication — and for whatever reason they thought I was interesting enough to cover politics in their sports journalism and they were very negative. Nobody from their outlet called me [for a comment] but because that story keyed it up in a negative way, the comments there were negative. While I’m certainly nothing like Trump in thinking that the media is the enemy of the people, I have seen how the media shapes perceptions, in that if you just look at stories and how they’re written, people largely tend to fall in line with the tone of the story itself.

So, with journalists who have been positive towards or interested in what I’m doing, people who read those pieces seem to follow that. For those who have written highly critical things of me, readers seem to follow that. And of course there are always trolls and contrarians and whatever else.

On a more personal level, what has the reaction from your family and friends been like?
They’re glad that I’m not handling the attention in a negative way. And of course not everybody in my life is running for office and so they’ve all looked for reassurance from me that I’m not going to hold other people in my life to the same level of transparency that I’m holding myself, but since I’m not, everybody is happy and excited for me.

How would you sum up your message to voters ― or anyone reading this interview? What do you want them to take away from your statement and the attention it’s received?
The first thing is that if you want honest and open-minded politicians, you have to vote for them and you have to vote for them exactly how and who they are. The second thing is that politicians who are open-minded about sex are also going to be bringing great solutions to the issues. I’m about changing education in Arizona, about a great stance on immigration, about handling our budget issues, about our handling corrections reform — all of these things. Who I am is what I’ve disclosed but what I’m going to do is bring great creative solutions that come from being open minded.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 is coming, hunties and March can’t come sooner! Throughout the weeks leading up to the big premiere, we’ll be sharing “9 Questions With Season 9” and today’s is featuring none other than the fabulous fashionista Peppermint.

Check it out:

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Welcome…to her face, hunties! It’s Mrs. Kasha Davis…and there’s always time for a HOW TO MAKE-UP! On this week’s episode, she shows you how to highlight for “basic bitchery,” as she calls it.

Check it out:

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Infamous punk band PWR BTTM dropped their second single off their anticipated sophomore LP Pageant! The poppy “Answer My Text” is the anthem for every millennial that has waited in apprehension for someone to text them back.

Liv Bruce, one half of PWR BTTM, wrote about “Answer My Text” on Facebook:

It’s 2017 and I can’t believe I still waste my time on boys who don’t text back! What am I doing? What are THEY doing? Is the phenomenon of ‘ghosting’ just the latest version of the same struggle for commitment that’s been raging for millennia, or do smartphones make it easier than ever to ignore someone you’re ‘seeing’ 95% of the time? The answer is probably yes to both. Fuck! I started writing this song over a year ago and it still makes me mad. I’m mad at the boy I wrote this about, who is actually a fictional composite of like 50 boys. I’m mad at myself for the times I’ve kept people I care about waiting for a response. Right now in my #personal #life I’m trying to work on my relationships with technology and people so I can better honor needs and boundaries moving forward, but before I could do that I had to exorcize my rage and despair by turning them into a song called “Answer My Text.” Here is that song.

With the release of PWR BTTM’s new song today came a lyric video, featuring illustrations by Mary Shyne. Watch, below, and pre-order Pageant, here.

Listen to the new single below and text your buddy to answer your text!

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The queens are hitting the red carpet in NYC for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 premiere as we speak, hunties! From the official Drag Race instagram, the new flock of queens did not mince their FASHIONS and came in full ELEGANZA! WOW’s very own Trey Speegle will be getting an exclusive later tonight, but check out the FIRST LOOKS from the premiere party!

Check it out:

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Did you guys see RuPaul and Naomi Campbell on Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen tonight?! #SupermodelsintheClubhouse

It airs again in a couple of hours if you’re still up! (That’s 12:30PM here on the West Coast). Until then, check out some of the highlights!

Check out the other SIX clips with Ru and Naomi on the WWHL website!

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Mary Ann Heagerty
Aidan Quinn
Boris Kodjoe
Camryn Manheim
Carole Bayer Sager
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Gary Numan
Hines Ward
James Van Der Beek
Kat Von D
Kathy Ireland
Lester Holt
Micky Dolenz
Nick Zano

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March 8, 1922– Cyd Charisse:

“I think that in all my dancing I play a role. To me, that’s what dancing is about. It’s not just steps.”

Fred Astaire:

“When you dance with Cyd Charisse, you stay danced.”

When Gene Kelly asked what she’d like for her epitaph, Charisse replied:  “People sometimes had a problem placing her face, but they never forgot her pins.”

She asked what Kelly wanted on his. He replied:

“Here lies Gene Kelly. He danced with Cyd Charisse.”

Her legs were sensational, of course, long and dangerous, and insured by MGM for a million dollars. But there was much more to her than those million-dollar legs.

She was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. When she was six-years old, to help recover her strength after having had polio, Charisse began taking ballet lessons at a local studio. Everyone recognized that she was an especially gifted dancer and when she was 12-years old, her parents enrolled her in legendary ballerina Bronislava Nijinska’s ballet school in Hollywood.

At 14-years old, she was invited to be a member of the new Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, founded by Léonide Massine and René Blum in 1937. Young Tula was required to adopt a Russian-sounding stage name, and she became Felia Siderova, and on occasion, Natacha Tulaelis.

She was on a European tour with the company when she when she met Nico Charisse, a handsome young dancer. They eloped in Paris when she was 18-years old, and she changed her name to Cyd Charisse. The name name’s origin, so the story goes, came from her brother who had trouble pronouncing “sister” and settled for “Sid”. Anyway, the name stuck, but the marriage didn’t.

In the early 1940s, Charisse was spotted by studio scouts and Columbia Studios cast her in Something To Shout About (1943), billed as Lily Norwood. In 1946, MGM, the number one studio for Hollywood musicals, signed her to a contract and gave her small, but showy roles in The Harvey Girls (1946), Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) and the lavish Ziegfeld Follies (1945), where she danced a brief opening sequence with Astaire. When she was cast in Ziegfeld Follies, producer Arthur Freed told her to use her married name Charisse and drop the Norwood.

Although only briefly in Ziegfeld Follies, Charisse gives off the impression of woman who knew how to make it on her own in the world. Most chorus girls were cast because they looked naive, but she came across as someone who knew how to seduce, beguile, and dominate a man.

At the screening of Ziegfeld Follies, Astaire turned to Kelly and asked: “Did you catch that girl Charisse?” Kelly answered: “She’s too tall for you!”, probably with the idea of having her as a dancing partner for himself.

Because of those famous legs, Charisse seems tall onscreen, but she was a rather average, 5′ 6”. But, Astaire and Kelly were not tall and they were always careful about their partner’s height. Charisse was eventually cast again opposite Astaire in The Band Wagon in 1953. In her shoes, she was several inches taller than Astaire. Lyricist Howard Dietz quipped:

“Her long legs made her look streamlined like the Chrysler Building, Astaire was more General Motors. The discrepancy was a problem, but the producers wanted Cyd and built up Fred’s ego and his heels.”

Their partnership was sensational. Audiences loved them together.

Unlike Ginger Rogers, who smiled through every routine, Charisse maintained a sensual seriousness which changed the look of dance in film.

In 1951, when Kelly and co-director Stanley Donen were casting Singin’ In The Rain, they knew they needed just the right dancing partner for Kelly in the film’s climactic Broadway Melody Ballet number. Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer and simply not up to the demands of the 15-minute routine. Kelly still worried that Charisse was too tall, so he staged it so that whenever they danced closely, they would always bend towards each other. Charisse is never seen standing upright next to Kelly.

For the number, Donen and Kelly decided to make Charisse look like screen star Louise Brooks, the insolent bobbed-haired beauty of the silent era. Kelly:

“She looked like a woman who liked to shock priests with wicked confessions.”

According to Kelly, Charisse was reluctant to appear so sensual, but when it came time to film it, she did it in style, and the dance and their partnership made film history. Charisse’s performance was so impressive that an entire production number with Reynolds was cut to emphasize Charisse’s impact.

Charisse:

“Astaire and Kelly are the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. They both wanted perfection and worked for days on a few bars to get exactly what they wanted. It could be hard on their partners, but it was worth it!”

Asked about working with Kelly and Astaire, Charisse told a reporter that her husband, handsome singer Tony Martin, always knew whom she had been dancing with: “If I was black and blue, it was Gene. And if it was Fred, I didn’t have a scratch.”

Astaire wanted her back for Silk Stockings (1957). Louis B Mayer and Freed were not convinced that she had the acting talent to carry off role first played Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), but Astaire got his way. Astaire:

“It wasn’t easy following in the footsteps of Garbo, especially for a gal best known as a dancer. But, she did it beautifully. Even that Russian accent never wavered. I put my head on the block for her and she never let me down.”

Charisse said of dancing with Astaire to the demanding choreography of Eugene Loring and Hermes Pan in Silk Stockings:

“Fred moved like glass.”

Silk Stockings was her last major musical. Interest in Hollywood musicals went into decline, but she found dramatic work in films like the film noir Party Girl (1958) with Robert Taylor and melodrama Two Weeks In Another Town (1962) with Kirk Douglas.

Without much film work, Charisse and Martin put together a really swell nightclub act and they played Las Vegas and clubs around the country. They were much in demand and received great reviews. She continued to work occasionally in film and on stage in summer stock. She appeared on television, dancing on variety shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show, with seven appearances on The Hollywood Palace, hosting three times. Her final film was an Italian drama, Visione Private (1989).

Charisse made her Broadway debut at 70-years old in the musical, Grand Hotel (1992), playing the lead, a famous but aging ballerina in 1920s Berlin, another role originated by Garbo (in the 1932 film).

Charisse kept working into her 80s, finally taking that final bow in 2008, gone from a heart attack at 86-years old. She was gorgeous to the end, and the people I know who worked with her say that she was very professional, but possessed a wicked of humor.

Arriving in Rome in her 70s, the paparazzi greeted her at the airport as if she were in a movie star in prime of her career, begging for shots of her million-dollar legs. She smiled and tossed-off:

“Even at my age… not bad for an old broad.”

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A very long time ago, in a magical land called LA, 40 musicians heeded a certain call. The call to come to a studio to record a song, a song so epic, so star-studded, so unabashedly filled with schmaltz it would never be forgotten. That song, We Are The World, went on to sell more than 20 million copies and raise over $63 million for humanitarian aid in Africa. Though notable and good, the fact that it was for charity is not its legacy. We Are The World is noted for being a wonderful, wacky, weird, winning, hot mess of celebrities vying for attention and the chance that their voice would do the most to help people in Africa.

The whole thing was Harry Belafonte’s idea. It was written in two weeks by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (although La Toya claims her brother wrote 99% of it, and she was there). It was produced by Quincy Jones. We Are The World is one of just a handful of all-time singles to have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

The instrumental tracks were recorded on the night of January 22, and two days later a cassette with a vocal guide to the tune was sent to all the participating singers. It was all very hush-hush. Enclosed in each package was a note from Jones:

“My Fellow Artists, the cassettes are numbered, and I can’t express how important it is not to let this material out of your hands. Please do not make copies, and return this cassette the night of the 28th. In the years to come, when your children ask, ‘What did mommy and daddy do for the war against world famine?’, you can say proudly, this was your contribution…”

Around 9 pm, on January 28, Michael Jackson  arrived at A&M Recording Studios in Hollywood. He was earlier than the other artists, because he wanted to record his solo section and the vocal chorus by himself. The other participants came straight from an American Music Award ceremony.

We Are The World opens with Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner and Billy Joel singing the first verse. Michael Jackson and Diana Ross follow, completing the first chorus together. Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson and Al Jarreau sing the next verse, before Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry and Daryl Hall sing the second chorus. Jackson, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper and Kim Carnes follow with the bridge, and everyone singing an extended chorus. We Are The World with Bob Dylan and Ray Charles singing another full chorus, and finishes up Wonder and Springsteen doing a duet, along with some ad-libs from Charles and Ingram.

Lionel Richie, Daryl Hall, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder

The full choir included: Dan Aykroyd, Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Sheila E., Bob Geldof, La Toya, Marlon, Randy and Tito Jackson, Waylon Jennings, Bette Midler, John Oates, Jeffrey Osborne, The Pointer Sisters and Smokey Robinson.

On March 8, 1985, We Are the World was released as a single, in both 7″ and 12″ format. It immediately became a huge hit around the world. In the USA, it was a number one on the R&B charts, the Hot Adult Contemporary charts, and the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for months. It took four weeks for the song to reach number one, half the time of most singles. It was in the Top Ten on the Rock and Country charts. The song became the first single since The Beatles’ Let It Be to enter Billboard’s Top Five within two weeks of release.

Critics hated it, and the music community was mostly embarrassed, but at the 1986 Grammy Awards, it won six awards, including the big ones: Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year.

Watching the video for the first time in three decades, I am most struck by Stevie Wonder. He was the first artist asked to participate by Jackson and Richie. They felt that Wonder would bring credibility to the project, and they were right. Wonder is transcendent in his big solo. He even makes you forget for a just a moment that the song isn’t very good. I love when he and Diana Ross hold hands and lift them together triumphantly. Wonder had joked that if the recording wasn’t done in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive everyone home. Stevie Wonder, you are the world.

Springsteen:

“Anytime somebody asks you to take one night of your time to stop people starving to death, it’s pretty hard — you can’t say no.”

I would really love to see We Are The World exhumed and rerecorded with the original artists that are still with us, along with a cool selection of younger musicians, all coming together to Fight Fascism. I guess we should expect Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Wayne Newton and Pat Boone to record their own version with Tia Tequila and Melania on tambourine, doing We Fuck Your World.

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Yes, the NYC premiere of season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race was in Times Square at the Playstation Theater –just a few doors down from Shubert Alley where Bette Midler will star in Hello Dolly next week. Everyone was excited to meet all the new queens. I brought Wowlebrity photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel and he was front and center as they came out one-by-one. (These pics are mine but his really good ones are coming.)

Was it because we were literally on Broadway? Or because there were more than a few New York and Las Vegas girls? –but this year EVERYTHING sparkled, including the camera-ready personalities of Aja, Alexis Michelle, Eureka O’Hara, Sasha Velour, Charlie Hides, Peppermint, Farrah Moan, James Mansfield, Kimora Blac, Nina Bo’nina Brown, Shea Coulee, Trinity Taylor and Valentina.

Access Hollywood was in position #1 in the line-up but TV Guide and a few other news outlets were there too, ready to ask them all what it was like to work with RuPaul. I guess they’ll all get better at answering those questions and more as the season rolls on. (Watch TV tonight, kids. Or watch Facebook Live below, if you want to see an hour plus of the whole damn thing, which makes it all look as chaotic and oddly glam as it actually was…)

Well, just like viewers, I’m always trying to clock who’ll be the final three (and who might be the first to go.) I was impressed by them all, really with no exceptions, right out of the gate, but Eureka, Sasha, Charlie and Peppermint all look like contenders to me. (FYI, last season my faves at the premiere were Acid Betty, Kim Chi, Thorgy Thor and Bob the Drag Queen.)

Thorgy was back to do interviews for Logo and Mrs. Kasha Davis was doing the same for Wow Presents, so watch for those. Darien Lake, Mx Qwerrrk and the evening’s hostess with the mostest, Ginger Minj were on hand to sparkle plenty. Seriously, I think sequins might have been mandatory in he dress code. The Lady Bunny swooshed by me in her signature Bunny print gown (that very morning as I was walking my dog Lamonte, and Bunny breezed by me and we ended up getting soaked talking in the rain for 15 minutes…) As DJ she kept the crowd going as we watching it growing and felt the excitement started to build.

When the show started we got a very Broadway produced moment at the top of the show by the dancers and queens from Brandon Voss’s Drag Brunch. Ginger then introduced the season 9 girls one by one. She then said,

“I know there have been whispers about a 14th queen… and she is THE queen of all queens, – RUPAUL!”

Needless to say, the place went nuts for a solid two minutes! (Longer than any Trump ovation before Congress, I swear.) And there she was, Mama Ru in the flesh. You can see a bit below. She thanked everyone for making the show the hit it is and said, of course, as you’ve heard, the first episode features a very famous Lady.

“We tried to get Lady Bunny, but she turned us down.“

Bunny’s DJ booth was onstage and Ru turned to her and said.

“Lady Bunny. You are a whore.“

…and then cackled for a solid minute. She introduced the season one clip that features Lady Gaga (you will LIVE for her entrance on the show!) and then we all watched it. OMG. No spoilers, kids, but the sickening is off the charts this season. You. Will. Die. Then Live. And then come back to life.

Ru said how happy she was to be back on VH1. World of Wonder produced her talk show on the network in 1997, 20 years ago, and now she is BACK!

I shot some SICKENING performance videos for a LOT of the queens, but I’ll save those another post. For now, enjoy some behind-the-scenes red carpet glamour and stay tuned.

Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premieres Friday, March 24 on VH1.

Ru shocked us all by showing up to introduce episode one, season 9

Host for the evening was the sparkling Ginger Minj

Side view, no side eye from Trinity Taylor, Kimora Blac & Charlie Hides

Sasha Velour and Alexis Michelle

Thorgy Thor talks with James Mansfield for Logo

Mrs. Kasha Davis brought along Mr. Kasha Davis

Darien Lake had a moment with Wow’s Mx Qwerrrk

Darien talks to Aja

Charlie Hides sharing the mic with Mrs Kasha Davis

“Trinity Taylor, what was it like to meet Lady Gaga..?”

Peppermint

Eureka! (O’Hara)

Eureka, Peppermint and Kimora Blac

Nina Bosnian Brown, Shea Coulee, Valentina & Charlie Hides

Aja

As seen from behind-the-scenes

W.O.W.

Look who showed up to introduce the first episode! @rupaulsdragrace @wowreport @rupaulofficial @ladygaga #omg

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“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.”

Bette Davis

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This is HUHlarious!!! Gay social networking/hook-up site Manhunt recently polled over 1 million of its members, and came up with this funny chart about the correlation of the size of a man’s hands and his dong. All of this started during the election primaries when we the peculiarly small size of Donald Trump’s hands became a hot topic. These may not be scientific facts, but it may help you decide where your next vaycay may be…or not to be! Check out the graphics below, and see where you measure up.

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Last night marked RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9’s premiere which makes the countdown to March 24th on VH1 at 8/7C even more EPIC. If you have been sleeping under a drag rock, check out WOW’s own Trey Speegle’s EXCLUSIVE round-up of the festive evening. In a surprise turn on drag queendom, Gaga’s entrance has been RUVEALED and it’ll have you GAGGING.

Check it out:

Gaga's drag race cameo starts with her entering the workroom as a gaga impersonator lmaaaoooo too good pic.twitter.com/IvVfXYpTey

— Conor Behan (@platinumjones) March 8, 2017

OMGAGA!!!

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The distinguished butch/women owned clothing brand Wildfang released a statement for International Women’s Day. As an almost completely women run brand they do not have the privilege to strike today as it would kill their business, which is something we all need to be aware of. If you are lucky enough to strike today recognize the privilege to do so. Many women because of unequal pay and unfair job disadvantage can not leave their work today. It’s encouraged if you can’t take the day off to protest and pamper yourself that you wear RED in solidarity. 

Check out Wildfang’s statements below, to kick off “The Day Without Women”

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Last night in NYC was the official RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 9, Premiere Event at the PlayStation Theater…and the original supermodel of the world RuPaul GAGGED the kiddies when she popped-up on stage for a surprise appearance! WOWlebrity Mx Qwerrrk was there to catch all the DRAG-u-losity, sashaying up close with all the new queens. Produced by Brandon Voss and VH1- the new channel for RPDR, the night brought out all the contestants in full glam fashion, including  Aja, Alexis Michelle, Charlie Hides, Eureka O’Hara, Farrah Moan, Jaymes Mansfield, Kimora Blac, Nina Bo’nina Brown, Peppermint, Sasha Velour, Shea Couleé, Trinity Taylor, and Valentina. Afterwards, the iconic DJ Lady Bunny kept the party going, sharing duties with host Ginger Minj.
RPDR returns with an all new season on March 24 on VH1, unveiling a royal court of cut-throat Queens each competing to snatch the crown and strut away with a $100,000 cash prize and the coveted title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” Along the way, they’ll face an unpredictable competition and deliver water cooler moments, as these talented ladies of drag join the fabulous 100 Queens who fought for the crown before them. Check out the pics below by Santiago Felipe (Getty Images), and you can meet Mx Qwerrrk at RuPaul’s DragCon, April 29 & 30!

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A Day Without A Woman highlights the rise of women in the political and economical spheres of our society. With Hilary Clinton frankly, cracking the glass ceiling for women everywhere, we can visibly see the lasting impact of a woman who was given opportunity (or fought for the same opportunity) that men have. Below is a checklist of the lasting economical impact if women suddenly stopped contributing to our daily lives.

Wednesday, March 8, is being promoted as A Day Without A Woman, an event created to “highlight the economic power and significance” of women and call “attention to the economic injustices women and gender nonconforming people continue to face,” according to organizers.

Women are being encouraged to take the day off from paid or unpaid labor as a form of protest. Participants are also being asked to refrain from shopping on the day, and to wear red as a sign of solidarity with the movement.

Critics have pointed out the irony that only people of privilege are able to participate without risking serious repercussions, because many women—perhaps most—don’t have the luxury of taking the day off from their normal responsibilities. Skipping work could mean losing a day’s pay or perhaps losing a job, period. And even some women who don’t work outside the home have no one else to rely on to take care of their children or handle other household duties—so taking the day off to march in protests, attend rallies, or simply rest may not really be an option.

Theoretically, however, what would a day without women truly look like? Here are some of the ways America would suddenly be transformed if all women went on strike or simply vanished altogether.

Nearly half of America’s workforce would disappear. Women account for 47% of all workers in the United States.

Median earnings would soar. Women work nearly two-thirds of the minimum-wage jobs in the U.S., and across all industries women make 79¢ for every $1 earned by men. Median annual earnings for full-time female workers were $39,621 in 2014, compared to $50,383 for men. So if women were somehow removed from the picture, median earnings would suddenly rise sharply.

America’s children wouldn’t learn much. More than three-quarters of public school teachers are women, and the education system would collapse without them. In fact, some school districts in North Carolina and Virginia are telling students to stay home on Wednesday because they anticipate that so many women won’t show up to work that the schools won’t be able to function.

Other industries would be decimated too. Women account for the majority of workers in many fields, according to Census data, including:

• 96% of all dental hygienists
• 91% of all registered nurses
• 84% of all cashiers
• 60% of all accountants
• 53% of all pharmacists

Almost 15% of the military would disappear. There are roughly 214,000 womenactively serving in America’s armed forces, accounting for 14.6% of the total. Women constitute over 19% of the Air Force, and over 16% of the Navy.

And about 15% of executives at big companies would vanish too. Women make up 14.6% of the executive officers in America, and are often are underrepresented at the leadership level even in fields that they dominate. Women make up 54.2% of workers in the financial services industry, for example, but only 12.4% of executives.

4% of Fortune 500 companies would be without a CEO. Only 21 of Fortune 500 companies have a woman serving as CEO, or 4% of the total. In other words, 96% of the CEOs at these companies are men.

College classes would be relatively empty. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since the late 1970s, and 55% of undergraduates enrolled at four-year schools are women.

10,829 babies wouldn’t be born in the U.S. That’s the daily average for babies born in America. (Some 360,000 babies are born around the globe each day, on average.) Granted, it’s not like anyone could actually stop babies from being born—but a day truly without women would be a day without new births. Population growth would go negative, since roughly 7,200 people die each day, on average, in the U.S.

There wouldn’t be many doctors to deliver babies anyway. Roughly one-third of all U.S. doctors are women, but women account for the majority of physicians in several specialties—including obstetrics/gynecology (85%), as well as psychiatry (57%), family medicine (58%), and pediatrics (75%).

The lion’s share of household chores would be neglected. Though men are doing more housework and spending more time with their children than they used to, women still handle the bulk of these household duties. A Pew Social Trends study shows that mothers devote 13.5 hours per week to childcare, compared to 7.3 hours for dads. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women spend an average of 37 minutes cooking (compared with 17 for men), 29 minutes cleaning (vs. 10), and 17 minutes doing laundry each day (vs. 5 minutes for men). There might not be food in the house either, as 70% of women say they handle most of their household’s grocery shopping. In total, women spend an average of two hours and 15 minutes daily on household chores, compared to one hour and 25 minutes for men—a 50-minute difference.

Most volunteers wouldn’t report for duty. Over 62 million Americans volunteeredto work for free for nonprofits and other organizations in 2015, and the majority of them—36 million—were women. Women are especially likely to volunteer in charity ventures focused on distributing food, tutoring or teaching, and fundraising, whereas men tend to volunteer more as general laborers or as coaches or referees for sports teams. (via Time)

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RuPaul’s Drag Race season six LEGEND Adore Delano has reached a very impressive social media milestone – attracting more than 1 MILLION followers on Instagram! – more than any drag queen EVER! She’s even beating (GASP), RuPaul, who is nipping at her heals with 986,000. I give Ru another week to catch up (or surpass), but for now let’s all give Adore a big psychic hug!

Notes Queerty:

This milestone marks the second time Adore has set a drag queen record. In 2014, her debut album, ‘Till Death Do Us Party,’ sold over 5,000 copies in its first week, making it the biggest first week sales log of any former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant.

And now, the race to 2 million begins.

⭐️1 MILLION FOLLOWERS!!⭐️ #wedidit #grateful #party #twentyseventeen #newprojects #iloveyou #homies #1millionfollowers

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Ready spaghetti!

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Peek-a-boo! SEE! I like pretending to be a model sometimes… Here I am modeling for the #Androgyny palette coming out March 4th @ 10am (PST) so get that shit if you likes pretty makeups! Also really fast.. thank you @jeffreestar for being so kind to my crazy ass on set. #androgynypalette #adoredelano #wannabemodel #poser #prettymakeup #stonerbeauty 🤘#americanidle ;)

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Butterfly

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90s fetus thot.

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Always a Budweiser in my hand.. I’m my fathers child. #SanFrancisco

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#BeachGoth2016

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Yo vivo para ti

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Una estrella fugaz es lo que eres.

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Ellen is celebrating the crap outta women today. Besides changing her Twitter avi to red and sharing pictures on her Insta of all the women that inspire her, she released a short video of all the women that inspire her and the list includes Michelle Obama, Laverne Cox, and Judge Judy.

Check it out:

These women inspire me. I hope they inspire you, too. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2017 pic.twitter.com/Jp9kN771yn

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 8, 2017

The only person missing is Ellen herself!

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Overboard – one of THE BEST COMEDIES OF ALL TIME (not up for debate) – starred Goldie Hawn as a spoiled heiress who gets amnesia and ends up believing she is the wife of widower Kurt Russell and mother to his four kids. It’s a brilliant send-up of the ’80s greed-is-good culture and one of Goldie’s best roles (which is saying A LOT). It still holds up beautifully, which is why upon hearing that it’s getting a remake, your first reaction is probably the same as mine: DON’T DO IT! LEAVE IT ALONE!

Ah, but this time, there’s a TWIST. It’s being re-imagined with the always brilliant Anna Faris and Latino superstar Eugenio Derbez… with a reversal of their leading roles.

According to Variety:

The story will focus on a spoiled playboy from one of Mexico’s wealthiest families, portrayed by Derbez, who falls overboard off his yacht. He’s then convinced by Faris’ single, working-class mom that he’s her husband.

Derbez is known to Latin American audiences for his long-running television series “La Familia P. Luche.” He starred in, directed, and produced the comedy “Instructions Not Included,” which grossed $100 million worldwide.

“The original ‘Overboard’ was beloved and the only way to bring it back is to reinvent the story in a whole new way,” said MGM Motion Picture Group President Jonathan Glickman. “Anna and Eugenio are two of the most charismatic forces in comedy whose take on the material will modernize the story for a whole new generation of moviegoers.”

What do you think? Sounds amazeballs? Let’s hold our opinion until we see it? Or NOOOOOO, don’t mess with perfection? (via Variety)

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We get it, Anna: sometimes you just don’t own anything red. You might have noticed your social media feed spotted with women (and men)  dressed in red today – that’s because it’s International Women’s Day. The color comes from “A Day Without Women” which is a result of fierce activism from the Women’s March this past January. But what do you do if you don’t own any red?!

Anna Paquin had a solution to share and show her solidarity:

.@smoyer and I wish you all a happy #internationalwomensday #IWD2017 I literally own no red clothes so #Billith says "what's up?" pic.twitter.com/Cq7POGyvEI

— Anna Paquin (@AnnaPaquin) March 8, 2017

YIKES!!! The person in red is her husband, Stephen Moyer, and this must be a #throwback photo from their days on True Blood (where the happy couple met).

However you celebrate, lift and raise up the women in your life that matter! Happy International Women’s Day!

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