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Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
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About This Book
Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work and reach out to each other – and how they always have.
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"Their style is littered with drag terminology but remains endearing and honest."
"This book is an excellent companion for Drag Race's growing, more mainstream, audience, for whom the giant shoulders upon which the queens stand will be mostly unfamiliar, and is a must-have for pop-culture collections."
"Though the book makes no claim to being a definitive text on queer history, it presents powerful (and fun!) new angles on pivotal moments, seamlessly woven into elements of the show ..."
"Informative, entertaining, melodramatic in its obsessiveness, and written with equal amounts of insight and wit, the book serves as a commemorative archive of drag in American life."
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