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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

TV America's Next Drag Superstar Begins Her Reign

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:57 PM

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All hail Bebe Zahara Benet, the real-life African Queen who won top honors in the (awesome) first season of RuPaul's Drag Race. The image above is, of course, Bebe's Greg Gorman-shot ad for L.A. Eyeworks. (Here's RuPaul's L.A. Eyeworks classic.)

Still to come for the triumphant Bebe, as the WoW Report reports: $20,000 from Absolut vodka and MAC cosmetics, a fashion spread in Paper magazine, and a headlining gig on the Absolut Pride tour. (No word yet on other components of the tour, but last year's bill featured Cyndi Lauper, Joan Armatrading, and the B-52s, and was surprisingly awesome.)

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YAY! Bebe!!! Nice. Love the show!

David I believe the Absolut Tour is put on by LOGO just for the drag queens, Cyndi's is done by HRC. Here is info on the drag dates:
http://www.logoonline.com/about/events.j…

It's like 5 dates! No Seattle! Boo to that!

Posted by Nik22 on March 31, 2009 at 1:21 PM

I personally wanted Nina to win, but Bebe is great and that is a fantastic looking ad!!

Posted by l0nepinemall on March 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM

Cyndi's True Colors tour is put on by LOGO and HRC.

The one with drag queens is the Absolut Real Fruit Tour.

cheers!

Posted by Nik22 on March 31, 2009 at 1:29 PM

@2 YES! I love Nina Flowers too, she was so awesome!!

Posted by Nik22 on March 31, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Hurrah! I was sad to think Bebe was doing only the drag-specific run, as one of the things the True Colors tour lacked was an awesome drag queen host to hold the whole thing together (we got Carson Kressley, who was okay). But getting an amazing entertainer with something to prove, who knows they've been granted an amazing opportunity? That would be something to see....

Posted by David Schmader on March 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM

Yip, I liked Nina Flowers better but congrats to Bebe. They both were the most gracious and polite contestants. Some of the others were mean and way too catty! Especially on the reunion show when a couple let their real feelings all out.

Posted by irl on March 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM

I don't get the fascination with drag. It's boring.

Posted by Original Ray on March 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM

Nina and Bebe need to get to this sleepy zombie town and shake they booty...!!

Posted by PussyDunkinHines on March 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM

how they got to Seattle I have zoned out - but - the B 52's were totally on and ROCKED the house

JOAN was also great - just not the balls to the wall rock stuff the 52s did

As they say, good times!!! ( hot date helped )

Posted by Here is my name on March 31, 2009 at 2:06 PM

Let's buttfuck and cut off our dicks and get boob jobs and take female hormones and force everyone to think it is something wonderful that should be publicly celebrated at every opportunity.

Posted by Celebrate my buttsex NOW! on March 31, 2009 at 2:22 PM

#10

talk about cutting off your dick to spite your buttsex...

Posted by michael strangeways on March 31, 2009 at 2:32 PM

@10, drag queens typically neither cut off their dicks or take hormones. Buttfucking? Well, I wouldn't know. It's certainly not part of their routines. And drag, of course, isn't even necessarily gay; I've been known to do it myself sometimes, pretty sloppily I admit.

Posted by Fnarf on March 31, 2009 at 2:48 PM

@10, sounds like someone has a hardcore tranny fetish...

Posted by PussyDunkinHines on March 31, 2009 at 4:13 PM

Thanks for the spoiler warning David... I missed the finale...

Posted by jsteel2005 on March 31, 2009 at 6:28 PM

They replayed the finale and the post-finale reunion all weekend on VH1, and, uh, the AD CAMPAIGN FEATURING THE WINNER came out this week. Spoiler warnings no longer apply.

Posted by David Schmader on March 31, 2009 at 10:28 PM