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Here's our fourth runner-up,

Miss Alfonso from Chicago.

Let's hear it for her, ladies and gentlemen.

Our third runner-up in the 1967 Nationals,

from Manhattan, Miss Crystal, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's hear it for the third runner-up of the 1967 Nationals.

Well, I think the more compelling

movie to watch is not when, okay,

the end of the pageant comes, the winner is announced,

and everyone shakes hands and oh, good job, good job to you.

But here is the only winner

in the 1967 Nationals,

that queen which will reign over America.

Harlow, ladies and gentlemen, queen of the 1967 Nationals.

The more compelling movie to watch

is the bitch who thought she should have won doesn't win

and gets mad and rips the fucking wig off the other girl

and storms off stage and throws a fit.

Like Crystal LaBeija in "The Queen."

It was a good film.

She looked bad.

Shit, she looked bad!

And no way or what you say could do about it.

Look at her makeup, it's terrible.

Take a picture of me next to Harlow

and tell me who's more beautiful.

Oh, get a picture with me and Harlow

and see which is more beautiful, darling.

Now darling, I don't mean to take this out on you.

You're a very lovely girl, you deserve everything lovely--

But she does not deserve-- But she does not

look beautiful tonight!

But she wasn't looking beautiful tonight.

She doesn't equal me, look at her makeup.

It's terrible!

They were reenacting

pageant for a documentary.

No, we were reenacting--

"The Queen."

Andy Warhol's "The Queen."

Phone that one, too.

And her explanation for why she wanted the money.

To put it in the bank.

It's all for publicity, darling, and that's why

none of the true beauties-- That's bad publicity!

None of the true beauties came,

because they knew they wouldn't win, darling.

Monique told me not to come,

that's why Monique is not here in dress,

because she is, Monique, darling.

She's a friend of ours.

Monique was not here as a friend of yours.

She is a friend of mine.

Oh, and I see you're running your camera, dear.

Oh, you're not gonna use my name, no darling.

You're not--

I'll sue the fool.

That's fucking real.

Well, not for equal rights, just for extra.

I want both bathrooms.

Who's happy?

Art and camera?

Love it. I want a male bathroom

and a female bathroom so I can rape your children.

Take two.

Season.

I'm Sharon Needles and people may know me

as the winner of season four of "RuPaul's Drag Race,"

or just America's biggest handful.

All right, it's rolling.

All right.

Jinkx Monsoon, take one, marker.

We're rolling.

Rolling, please.

So tell me your.

No.

Tell me your name and how you are known,

what people know you for.

My name is Jinkx Monsoon

and I'm most well-known for winning

season five of "RuPaul's Drag Race."

Man, I heard bestiality jokes on there.

Right, they talk about like, fucking anuses

and like, I don't know, fucking gay sex, I don't.

Okay, last question because I'm sure.

We should tuck

a little piece of hair back in.

One piece of my hair is out of place?

Burn all of the footage.

I can't imagine!

This is so funny to me because it's like,

where is the line that it becomes like.

Are you actually sticking to those?

All of your managers

want me to send you down, but okay.

Where is the line that my ridiculous nest of hair,

one part of it becomes, oh, that's too much,

we have to stop.

It's like, I just fucking put frizzed-out,

ridiculous hair on the top of smooth hair.

Where is the line that it's like,

that's too much, it's out of place.

We found the line.

It's that one little stick-out.

Okay, before I send you down.

Further request.

Am I looking at you or the camera?

Me.

Okay, my name's Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

and I'm the queen of Earth.

So audacious.

No, I've been saying that like, no.

People know me, I'm a drag queen, I was on TV once.

Did you--

Hmm?

Standard shot of the documentary,

eyes on.

Oh, no shit.

I'm sorry if I was disrespectful to you in any way before.

That kind of like, constantly irreverent thing does get old.

Like, if you're just kind of a dickhead

all the time, you know?

No, no, I mean.

That's fine, we're working.

There we go.

I think I got it.

Oh, it's a different color, fuck.

Can you tell me,

is it totally uncomfortable if your knees are right on here?

You want me to kneel?

No.

Just put your legs back over.

Okay, oh, I see.

The image was too seductive.

They're not even gonna listen to what I'm saying.

Barbara, we're looking good.

We're good to go.

Get the horse dart out and just shoot her in the neck.

Is this a romance book jacket photograph?

I'm trashy but thoughtful, mm.

What about this?

Yeah, I wonder where my wheelchair went.

This'll do.

I don't know, I've never done drag though,

'cause I'm a woman, biologically, from birth.

Came out a woman and still that.

Sound like a man.

So is that--

What would you do if I pulled down my pants

and had a beautifully-manicured vagina?

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ I don't wear wigs

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

Thank you guys so much, let's have an amazing show.

Congratulations, everyone,

this is the largest show that you guys have ever done.

Oh. Woo-hoo!

No pressure, no pressure!

This is the largest show you will ever do.

I just wanna thank everybody, first and foremost.

This is the largest show we have ever done.

It is.

And it warms my very black heart that it's right here

in my home away from home, London town!

Please welcome to the stage

the one and only, Miss Jinkx Monsoon!

♪ Darling, your love, oh I fear ♪

♪ Just like everything this time of year ♪

♪ It burns red and green

♪ Should I stop

♪ Should I go

♪ Is the season in your heart as cold ♪

When I was a kid I was very self-conscious

about how big my lips were.

♪ Now the holidays may come between ♪

My mom always said, "One day you're gonna be

"really happy that you have very big lips,

"and you're gonna make some girl very happy, too."

And that girl was me.

♪ When your love is red and green ♪

♪ When your love is red and green ♪

♪ Through your Santa Claus and your tree ♪

♪ Do you ever even think of me

♪ Some days I just don't know

♪ My menorah is the same

♪ But could never even hold a flame ♪

I don't think I ever thought that it was possible

to be a world-famous drag queen

at this level when I started it.

Now there's many, many famous drag queens

creating a lot of really great artwork

and a lot of them are my very good friends.

♪ Well, someday

My drag before going on "Drag Race"

was intentionally half-baked,

because I wanted all of my focus to be on the performance.

♪ A present for, a stocking for me ♪

It was a messy, slapped-together kind of look.

Ru just said to me, "You know, you have so much

"to offer with your character.

"If you want to be this quirky, tacky, disheveled mess,

"you have to do it at 100 %."

♪ You

♪ Darling, your love, oh I fear ♪

Even though I am still very quirky and tacky,

I think I'm as gorgeous as I've ever been,

nowadays.

More gorgeous than I've ever been.

The most gorgeous version of myself.

♪ Oh, darling, like you do

♪ When your love

♪ Is red and green

Generally when I'm getting ready,

like when I'm starting my makeup right now,

all I wanna do is just not have to do it.

It takes so long.

I love the final product

and I love the way I look in the end.

I just hate the process.

Doing this six nights a week,

covering yourself in makeup and painting yourself,

it just gets a little tedious.

Other times when makeup artists have tried to do my makeup,

I'm really unsatisfied with it in the end

because professional makeup artists who do like,

fashion editorial makeup and stuff,

when you ask them to do a drag queen's makeup,

I never think they put enough makeup on.

And there's some drag queens out there

who can just wear a little bit of makeup

and go for the more natural look,

but I really just don't like that on myself.

I like to look like a full transformation,

facial reconstruction has taken place.

Let's say all these front bright lights,

instead of 50 %, let's just cut these.

We'll take, yeah.

So we can walk on in this kind of dramatic.

This is the preset.

Yeah. Mine's soft lights.

Yeah.

So let's leave it like this until we get center stage.

So you kind of just barely see us in this light.

Then when we hit center stage,

that's when you can bring the lights up,

maybe we'll start 'em at 50.

Actually, right there, that's great.

Just kinda dim.

'Cause we sing "O Holy Night" and it's really somber.

♪ O holy night

♪ The stars are brightly shining ♪

Drag queens, they say whatever is on their mind

and they don't give a shit if it's politically correct

or if it offends people.

You know, drag is a satire

and a social commentary.

The character of Jinkx is supposed to be

kind of boozy and alcoholic.

I like to make jokes like I'm drunk even if I'm not,

because then if something goes wrong,

well, you can blame it on being drunk,

even if you aren't, you know?

And then they kind of expect that out of a drag queen.

Normally, a drag show is just in place

to try to sell more booze, so it's like,

kind of just expected that the drag queen's gonna be drunk,

so I kind of just give them what they want.

Like when I started drag at age 15,

lots of people acted like I was

the most negative stereotype of the gay community.

And now, thanks to there being a reality TV show

all about drag, drag queens are respected

in a way that they really weren't when I started drag.

♪ Divine

♪ Oh, now

♪ Oh, now

♪ Oh, now

♪ Ho, now

♪ Baby

♪ O night divine

I saw my first drag show at age 14,

and I feel like it changed everything for me.

Like, it changed my whole world

when I saw my first drag show.

♪ They said, you gotta give it to him ♪

♪ He never was tardy

♪ No one as sorry, no one as sorry as me ♪

♪ Ya-da-da-di

♪ You hung up and left me there ♪

♪ To put on a show all in despair ♪

♪ No one as sorry, no one as sorry as me ♪

♪ We'll never get to walk on the beach ♪

I was not a normal boy,

but I also came out at a very early age.

I was way too feminine

and way too expressive to hide it.

'Cause even when I thought I was trying

really hard to hide it,

everyone still saw a little femme-y gay boy.

So when I was like, well if people

are gonna just assume that about me anyway,

then I should stop worrying about playing this game.

It was trying, for a lot of time

and it was hard to go through

the American public school system like that,

but the more that I just kind of realized,

you know, there's no hiding it with me

and I'll be so much happier when I stop trying to hide it

or trying to be someone else,

the better my life got.

♪ Someday you'll meet another gal who'll throw you away ♪

♪ And she won't feel sorry

♪ Nearly as sorry as me

Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to my friends,

Oscar Wilde and Teeth.

I mean, look at those teeth!

Jinkx is very heavily based on my mom.

My mom doesn't like that.

I don't know about you, but I would be very embarrassed

to have fake teeth at such a young age,

you know, I would, I would.

Oh, shit.

Oh, dammit.

I'm not trying to say my mom was a terrible mom.

She had plenty of great moments.

But she also caused a lot of problems

for me in my teenage years.

My mom went through a phase of alcoholism

and went through a phase of just being very selfish.

And my way of working through that frustration

was to create a character out of it.

Mom, I can remember the words.

I'm a professional.

The reason I'm able to be a positive person

and able to keep my mind focused on, you know,

improving the world is because I get

all of my anger out on stage.

But there are plenty of people out there

who do not adhere to one strict gender, you know.

There are people who are genderless.

There are people who,

they prefer to be referred to as genderfluid.

They prefer to be referred to as gender non-binary.

They prefer not to be referred to at all.

Yeah, friends, I prefer not to be referred to.

Yeah, it's very awkward when we go to parties.

I have to say, "Have you met my friend?"

And we have to respect that.

We have to respect it. We have to respect it!

I, myself, I'm much more enlightened than most of you.

For me, the best thing is when

I'm fully done with makeup and people,

it used to happen more before I was on TV,

but people would think that I was

a real woman trying to be a drag queen.

Like I was a real woman painted up

and trying to impersonate a drag queen.

And I liked that because it made me feel

like I had fully transformed into a character

where people really didn't know

if I was a boy dressed as a woman

or a woman dressed as a woman.

I cannot become any more masculine than I am now.

♪ Coffee and wine

The older I get, the more I'm going to start

looking like a man, and that thought terrifies me.

My ability to shift between the genders

is the thing that's kept me from hating my body.

We have been conditioned for so long

to believe that because of your genitalia,

it's natural for you to act this way or the other,

and to do anything outside of that is unnatural.

It used to drive me nuts trying to feel confident

and feel good about myself dressed as a boy,

because ding-dong, I'm not a boy.

You know what, that's not my inner truth.

♪ Coffee and wine

♪ To give life meaning

I feel a responsibility,

not just as a drag queen but as a gay celebrity.

You have to be awake, if you want to be an artist

and not just someone pushing booze.

I have a much younger audience,

fan base, than I ever expected.

There's gotta be some substance

and there's gotta be something going on in the show

so that that 14-year-old boy in the audience

who's seeing their first drag show,

I wanna make sure there's something

that they can take home with them, that means something.

♪ Keep me in the java

♪ And

♪ Wine

Oh, thank you, thank you.

Well. So.

What happens is, is that when you're in drag,

you take your penis and your nuts,

and you squish them in your hands

and then you pull them all the way back between your legs

and stuff them up in your butthole.

And then you put on a pair of like,

a fucking roll of duct tape,

and five pairs of panties which are seven sizes too small,

and then you sit around in six pairs of tights,

in high-heel shoes, scrunching your toes,

and then you put a wig on your head,

which is like a thousand degrees and it's on really tight,

and then you have a face that feels

like you have a clay mask on.

And then when you're sitting around

not doing anything for several hours,

it starts to get annoying and painful.

And then you have a diva fit.

Hey, can we set this fucking shelf, please?

I'm fucking over it.

Michelle, can you start the show?

Can someone start the fucking show?

We've been fucking waiting around.

It's like fucking 11 o'clock,

and we haven't started the fucking show?

All right. Well, fuck!

You sell my T-shirt.

I didn't sign one single fucking headshot.

In a lot of the--

Sorry.

It's the corset.

We're like witches in more ways than one.

If you've ever seen the Anjelica Huston movie "Witches,"

where she's like, "You may remove your wigs,"

and they all pull off their wigs

and they have these horrible bald heads.

They kick off their shoes

and they have these big block feet.

It's like, that's about drag queens.

I mean like, half the extras in that movie

are men dressed as women and I think Roald Dahl

in his infinite wisdom just knew

what it's like to be a drag queen

and wrote a book about it and called it "The Witches."

As glamorous as this all looks, it's fucking painful.

It's really painful.

To create the hyper-Western concept

of the perfect female form,

we are constantly suffering from fever.

Our bodies are constantly confined by spandex,

which causes us to get very hot and to sweat a lot.

And then all the things we use to manipulate our bodies

into the female form is absorbing all of that,

so the most beautiful drag queen,

just right underneath their crust,

is nothing but disgust.

When I'm super busy in drag,

I don't shower with any regularity.

It's like pulling teeth to get me to take a shower.

When you're on the road and you're doing

show after show after show after show,

you don't have washing machines to wash your tights, so--

So, it looks really lovely, but like,

you're really glad this movie

isn't in smell-o-vision, 'cause it's like--

Eventually you start smelling like Gouda and corn chips.

Chicken for a few days

and then it starts smelling like something is wrong.

We smell like bile.

Like, filth.

Like a mole person.

Like it could get somebody else ill.

We're disgusting.

I can't believe anyone fucks us.

♪ Once upon a time

♪ Science opened up the door

You know, I get put into a box

of being a horror queen or an Elvira.

This is a stereotype that I personally am not offended by.

♪ Touch the creatures down below ♪

♪ And they grew up in a way

You know, and I kind of, you know,

no pun intended, dug my own grave on that one.

♪ Supernature

♪ Supernature

♪ Supernature

♪ Supernature

When I was growing up and like, going out,

I never did the gay thing.

You know, I primarily was a feral gay rat

raised by street punks.

♪ Supernature

♪ Supernature

♪ Supernature

The more gay culture has gotten, you know, more accepted,

gay is not as punk as it used to be,

so I wanna create a punk, cool, underground drag queen.

♪ Supernature

Oh my goth.

Can I get a fatherfucking hail Satan out here?

Hail Satan!

And I don't believe in God

and I don't believe in the devil,

but I do believe in you and me.

Day gigs should be illegal.

Yeah, this shit should be illegal.

We are designed for the night.

Oh, God.

Thank you so much, it's my Halloween costumes.

Feel free to try them on if you want.

Thank you so much, bye.

Do you have alts?

For Halloween, never.

I'm the fucking queen of Halloween.

Well, once Elvira dies.

But I'm looking at your toenails

and I'm concerned.

You should be.

Is that from dancing?

This is just old black nail polish,

but our pantyhose constrict toes so much

that they're full of callouses and corns.

The what to wear's always difficult in a day gig.

Why?

Because I think costumes on drag queens

during the day looks dirty.

It looks, I mean, it sounds oxymoronic,

but it looks too much.

In a spotlight you look like Barbie,

and in the sunlight you look like a birthday cake.

I did find a bag of cocaine in my

toothbrush bag though today,

which is kind of a shock. Did you fly with it?

Oops.

Oh my God.

I don't know anything about that, Occifer.

The fun about drag is that you can escape yourself

in a million different people.

I'm every woman, they're all in me.

Oh, day gigs.

It's just not right.

The great thing about Pittsburgh is that

they don't give a fuck who I am, you know?

Right after "Drag Race" it was

a sensation for maybe an hour.

Why the fuck you all up this early?

This is torture.

After "Drag Race" I had the opportunity

to move to Los Angeles like a lot of

my "RuPaul's Drag Race" sisters do, or New York,

or you know, even get out of the country,

but I look at Pittsburgh the way John Waters

looks at Baltimore, because it's like

an escape from all of this, you know?

Would you like some of my vodka, though?

Sure.

When I say that's a whole glass of vodka, I'm not lying.

Go ahead, have a little sip.

Pittsburgh's just an old industrial town

where you can still smoke in the bars, and I love that.

So I dropped out my freshman year.

Well, I didn't really drop out,

my counselor brought in my parents

and said it might be best if I left the school

because my visuals were a distraction to the other students.

So I left high school, then I came to Pittsburgh.

We were just a group of misfit Pittsburgh drag queens.

We became successful quite quickly

because I think what we were doing on stage

was reflecting who they were.

It's a rough, sloppy, rusted industrial town,

so I think they liked that we were rough

and punk and more in-your-face.

You know, it was never just a pretty dress

and the lipstick, you know,

there was always a political, a transgressive,

or a hyper-art side to what we were doing.

♪ Hail Satan

Just because we're drag queens

doesn't mean we all come from the same pasts

and we're on the same path.

I didn't want to be RuPaul, I wanted to be Divine.

You know, I was introduced to drag

by being something really bonkers and scary.

I call it visual terrorism.

9/11 in high heels.

Gay people are the one minority people don't really fear.

They can scare normal culture and that's fun, and needed.

Red wine before noon is gross.

Not gross enough not to drink.

Not a real drag queen unless you have no toes

and they're spilling over, ready to commit suicide.

It's called a suicide toe.

Ready to jump.

How clockable is this lace today?

Like, right up on it, yeah, you can see it,

but if you move away you can't.

It's a classic lace, then?

Yeah. Okay.

I don't wear costumes in a day gig.

A full face of makeup, of course.

I had the best night's sleep last night, though.

You got in last night?

Got in last night, watched this documentary

about child sex offenders.

Oh, I bet you were in heaven.

I was like, "Oh, why is this on A&E,

"they're not describing enough."

Now if I found a time machine

and I had sex with my six-year-old self,

would that be illegal?

Six-year-old?

I wasn't even that cute at six.

Not like--

You had only had half the procedures done by then.

You wanna go to a pageant tonight?

Sonique is performing.

Is it in this town?

No, it's in downtown L.A.

I have a 5:30 a.m. and it's Chad's--

But it's a T-girl pageant.

I know, I know, I know, I know.

Caitlyn Jenner--

Caitlyn Jenner is gonna be judging it.

I'll be there.

My shoe is slowly filling up with blood.

Oh, day gigs.

My foot fell asleep.

This is corporal punishment.

Can we get a golf cart?

Or any sport cart.

A go-kart.

A big wheel.

If Caitlyn Jenner was here we'd have a golf cart.

Think it's the only thing she's legally

allowed to drive nowadays.

Sit on the outside.

Maybe not.

Okay, this is like the Flintstones.

I'm like the fucking steak in the Flintstones, girl.

Oh my god, how tall am I?

I'm the tallest person I've ever.

You good?

Yeah, I think so.

I need that mic wet, wet, wet.

Wet as can be.

Yeah, give me as much reverb

as you can. Reverb to the point of echo.

I don't want that, though.

Tell them to shut it off.

Every time I get ready and I look in the mirror

I always say, "I'm never gonna look better than this,"

and then one year from that I'll look back at that

and I'll be like, "Oh God, what was she thinking?"

Then think that is the current standard of perfection.

It's never gonna get any better than that.

If I think I ever felt like there was no more growth

in this art form then I'd probably quit.

♪ I'm not alone

I like it to just reflect the insanity

that's going on up here.

Then it also proves to be very therapeutic

for me to perform it live,

because I think the stage is a great punching bag.

I mean, it's more legal than killing people.

♪ You're casting your spell and I'm hypnotized ♪

♪ You're a hellhound

I don't have the most fans,

but I think I have the best fans.

People who are fans of Sharon Needles

are usually introverted and damaged in some way

and I most definitely put that

in my music and in my songwriting.

♪ You're my Dracula, la, la, la, la ♪

Happy Halloween, hail Satan,

and as always, kill your parents!

Is there anywhere for Grandma to sit?

There's a bench over here.

How've you been, I haven't seen you in a while?

I know, since 340 I think?

Yeah, since 340.

Yeah.

Did you guys enjoy the show?

Sorry it was so short, but you know,

that's festivals, you know?

It was nuts in there.

They throw you on and they throw you off.

But the sound was really good.

No, it was great.

Yeah, now I have to pack up real quick,

grab all my Halloween costumes for my tour,

just got sent in at the front desk,

and tonight I'm meeting one of my all-time biggest icons.

Which one?

You'll never guess.

I probably won't.

Guess, Caitlyn Jenner.

You're not. Oh my god.

Say that again.

I love her, Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner!

Oh. Where are you meeting her?

One of my biggest icons that I really identify with.

You know, they all love it at first

and then change their mind real quick.

I don't wanna call her an idol

because there's nothing about her that I want to be,

but she's certainly one of

the biggest icons of our current time.

You ever seen a transsexual be so hated on?

It proves that transgender people

are just like us, we can hate them.

Times. I hate everyone, so.

'Cause people think they're

doing it for attention. They are a-changin'.

Happy Halloween, guys.

Bye, Aaron. Thank you so much.

Tell all my babies hi.

I will.

I'm still looking for your ice pops

but I think they're discontinued.

My what? Ice pops.

My fans know that I have an obsession with ice pops.

And cocaine.

And you're not even with a drag queen now.

False eyelash, shit bitch.

It was their cool mean girl table

and then me, The Princess--

It was not the cool table! And Madame LaQueer.

Let me ask you a question, like a witchy question.

Do you think of me as a friend?

Yes, of course, I think of you

as one of my best friends, actually.

Good.

One of my best sisters.

Good, then we're on the same page.

I thought I wanted to fuck him

but I know that that's just never a good idea with us

because I have a hard time maintaining

an erection for people I respect.

Yeah, I mean, I always say if I didn't use dating apps,

if I didn't use Grindr, I wouldn't meet anyone,

because literally when I'm on tour the schedule is,

get on the plane early in the morning,

get to the hotel, maybe have a couple hours to nap or eat,

then immediately start getting in drag.

So I meet promoters and I meet like, other drag queens

and I meet go-go boys and stuff,

but I don't meet many real people

who aren't in the business these days

unless I use a dating app.

I've realized it is a lot trickier,

especially because gay, I always forget about that.

It shrinks the population down.

If they know me, do they only wanna

hang out with me because they're a fan?

Sometimes I meet guys who don't know me

and they just really don't get it.

I try to explain my career to them

and they have zero idea what I'm talking about.

I'm starving for affection, Sharon.

Nobody will fuck me.

Oh my god! That's not true.

Well, don't sound desperate. Yes it is true,

are you gonna fuck me, bitch?

I don't think so.

Is Jiggles gonna--

Violet was tweeting that she wants to fuck you--

For the fame.

Is this bitch gonna spread her fat rolls

all over my beautiful fucking body, bitch?

You leave my bakery alone, bitch.

Are you gonna fucking stuff my hungry mouth

with your delicious Asia rolls, bitch?

No.

Go fuck yourself.

Leave her sweet buns out of this.

That's kind of what it is, it's like,

all right, that guy looks like he could test

the challenge of my whims in changing

and like, ridiculous expectations on every level.

That's gotta be a really special person.

Who's gonna graduate from the university of my pussy,

summa cum laude, and gonna donate to the alumni fund?

Not a lot of people at this, you know,

small, unaccredited college in the mountains.

You gotta let nature take its course.

Will you give me a kiss?

Jiggles?

Nope.

Lift your fucking mouth.

No!

Kiss me.

Kiss me. No!

That is rape. Kiss my gross-ass

smoker mouth. That is rape.

No, I'm saying kiss me.

Rape! What can I do?

No, don't shout rape when you're not getting raped.

That's a lie, kiss me.

Kiss me, you fucking fat bitch.

No, I don't want his curse. Why?

'Cause I'm not a lesbian.

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.

I'm not gonna turn around.

I'm gonna endanger this whole vehicle

until you kiss me. Oh my God!

Give her a sweet little sister peck on the lips.

Are you not my fucking sister, bitch?

Okay.

Thank you, God.

Now we'll do it on the lips next time

when my dingaling's out and hard.

How the fuck you doin', London?

Listen, I'm a junkie and I'm not gonna apologize for it.

I'm also growing out my hair.

Does it look nice?

Thanks so much.

Listen, the holidays for me are all about,

you know, good food, great relationships,

and then, well, trying not to fuck my dad.

And it's hard, you know, 'cause he's a really handsome guy,

but that's neither here nor there.

These days, would you say

that you're straight-up just a comedian?

No, no, no.

I'm an auteur who moonlights as a romance novelist,

but just hasn't written any books yet.

Listen, something they never teach in school no more

is that when Dorothy went to Oz,

she had to have sex with the Tin Man, the Scarecrow,

but the Lion wouldn't fuck her 'cause he was gay.

Did you know that?

Wait, are you 14 years old?

Fuck.

I feel like I'm just a Jessica Simpson

with the heart of Bill Cosby

and the legs of Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

That's not true, I don't know what that means.

♪ I had a shot of Vicodin

Wait, what?

What the fuck is that?

I mean, I don't know, do you think,

I mean, I'm not a comedian.

What do comedians do?

They have specials for one hour

where they wear a boring outfit with a microphone

and they say, "You guys, when I fuck my wife's pussy

"it just goes split, splatter, splatter.

"It makes all these splashy noises,

"and I don't know how to feel about that."

I mean, that's every comedy special

I've ever seen, but you know.

I don't know.

I like making people laugh but sometimes I know,

it's not that I know that I'm funny,

it's that what I'm saying is interesting

and I know that, even if I'm in a room,

I'm just in the wrong room.

But I know there's a right room.

Happy New Year's to you.

They say new year, new you,

and I have three New Year's resolutions.

I wanna find my dead cat and give it a proper burial,

I wanna call up Denise on the phone

and say I'm sorry for calling her

a cunt in front of her dead mom, and the last thing,

I gotta start flossin' again, but it's hard.

A satirist?

Can we try?

No.

You're so hung up on labels, why can't I just be a woman?

Don't put me in a box.

You can put me in a shopping cart but not a box.

That's comedy.

You guys should really think about not drinking so much.

Good night!

Which witch is which?

All right, so I can actually not sing,

but I like to sing in characters.

Good. Could we do like,

♪ Camptown races sing that song ♪

♪ Doo-dah

No, seriously. Yeah.

Like, old timey.

Yes. Okay.

Am I playing this?

Am I playing and we're singing?

Is that what's happening? I don't know.

We're gonna be eating sushi, too.

Amen to that.

Did you go to college for like, performance or anything?

Yeah, performance art.

For real? I used to be embarrassed

about it and now I'm literally making

thousands and thousands of dollars to do it,

so I'm not embarrassed anymore.

But it took a long time not to be embarrassed about it.

What'd you do, did you do stuff at like, ART?

No, no, no, I did stuff like this.

Like in a '90s beat, I'm like,

huh, huh!

That's it, to like,

dentist drills. Just C-curve central.

Like to dentist drills.

No, actually, we're digitizing footage

from my stuff I did in school

and it was actually, looking back, it's kinda cool.

Yeah?

But so I am in the weird transition part

where I'm famous for being a person

and now wanting to be famous for being an artist.

When Hollywood makes you, your grip snaps like a twig

on real and not real, important and not important.

Yeah?

You know, that scares me to death.

You know, generally speaking, well,

I feel like a lunatic sometimes,

but other times I feel bad,

I don't give a shit I feel like a lunatic,

and then I wanna retreat and just maintain, and I hate that.

It's insidious 'cause guess what allows

that kind of retreat, money.

Sure.

Eccentric people are eccentric.

If you're homeless you're just crazy--

'Cause they've never had to fight

or do anything more.

If you're eccentric with no money, that's crazy.

No, crazy with no money is just crazy.

Crazy with money is eccentric.

Yeah, that's it.

But you have to be functioning to be eccentric.

Like, you have to actually,

meet at 7:00, you gotta show up at least by 8:00.

You know what I mean?

Or otherwise, people cut you loose.

I have to be a clown or like, a goofball goon

because there's no other way to do it.

It's so grim!

Look at me, I am an insane person.

Thank God this is happening because it legitimizes it.

♪ Jesus Christ

But fuckin' eh.

Barbara, I call you back.

It's like, nuts.

That's why I feel like, oh, whenever I feel like,

I wonder if this is what Robin Williams was like,

'cause he's so manic and crazy

and probably a cocaine addict.

He's like, "Hanging it up!"

And then, boom.

Hanged himself.

Still like, getting over body shame stuff.

But it's society though, why is it a crime to be naked?

It is a crime to be naked.

I think the Vatican needs to pay

because all of my body shame issues I've been able to like--

Trace back to your Catholic roots?

Yeah, and like, get to a level

of objectivity that's kinda realistic.

You know, it's never gonna be totally objective if it's me,

but I'm able to see the same pattern

in lots of other people.

Mama, those people put me.

The Holy Trinity is not Father, Son, Holy Ghost.

It's fear, shame, and guilt.

You know what I think, my job going forward as an artist

is to incorporate some element of nudity

in every single thing I do,

because it's gonna take that much to make just a small dent.

Because there's nothing objectively wrong

with me being naked. Permeating everything else.

Here's my twist.

I have to love my body because I hate my body.

If I didn't hate my body I'd be at zero.

You wouldn't know. But hate is minus five,

love is plus five.

We're trying to get actually to zero.

Because my body is not gonna be lovable forever.

My body, if I don't shower three days from now,

will be disgusting.

It'll smell like shit.

Not a value judgment!

Not a value judgment.

In the Catholicism they say,

"Your body is dirty, you are worthless."

Every time.

You are naked, you are ashamed and afraid.

Garden of Eden, mama, it starts in day one.

The knowledge of good and evil

equals being shamed of your body.

The first thing you're aware of is,

I'm naked and it's wrong.

That is fucked!

Your partner.

♪ We too have paddled in the stream ♪

♪ From morning sun till night

♪ But seas between us broad have roared ♪

♪ Since auld lang syne

♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

I forget, ah!

♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

♪ And a happy

I wanna, kind of,

move through this, because we still

have to learn another one.

I'm gonna mush my weenie into your body

and it's gonna be sexual.

And also, I mean, I like the idea of it

also breaking down from being too fast.

That's a comedic element.

Not being able to do it. Not being able to do it.

And I can yell at them.

Left this time, boom. Left this time?

Boom, boom.

So you guys, this starts immediately.

So be in your first positions.

Okay, first position. I like your hair.

First position, you guys.

It's like, Hollywood hair. Katya.

Get in first position now.

Now.

I've fucking been in first position, bitch.

I want you to be a nasty--

Be a nasty woman.

A militant, diesel, dagger,

fucking crack the whip, dance instructor today.

Just for fun?

Just for an hour, yeah. Okay, okay.

That's hard for me, I'm gonna have to work on that.

Well, let's explore your range.

Okay.

All right, listen up, motherfuckers, here we go.

Yes!

Well like, we could even do like a.

Something like that.

Sure. It's easy.

Any of it, yeah. And it's percussive.

Boom, boom, boom, pew.

That's good.

Don't hurt yourself.

Girl, I know my truth.

I don't know, it's so weird.

It's great to feel sexy but it's also so stupid.

I can't stand like the, motivation Monday,

I put in my hard work today at the gym.

Gonna get a sexy body

and gonna share that to you on the internet.

I mean, great.

I'm doing that right now.

Oh, you know what, my drag is saying, "Hey, that's funny.

"I know we're still gonna do it,

"but we all get why that's funny, right?"

Oh God, these guys who are just like,

"Fit life, insta fit.

"Aspirational hunk of the day.

"Gym life, go to the gym,

"gym place, you know,

"muscle fitness, gym fitness, fitness life,

"fitness world, muscle gym fitness world,

"muscle gym fitness world planet."

How do they get all these hashtags?

If you look, there's a huge paragraph

and you realize it's all to grab attention to say,

"Look at me, I'm doing a good job."

I don't understand why they don't see

it's the same picture, every time.

Like "Groundhog Day."

Ordinary people are fucking weird.

Not bad, but they are fucking weird.

It looks like a giant Phi Phi.

Oh God, he's so sexy.

You just said you don't go for WeHo perfect,

yet you're drooling over...

That's WeHo 101 right there.

Is it really?

The ass...

He's just a little too stout.

Slay, fatty.

Come on, we gotta-- Do you guys know

if there's any drag queens who are Trump supporters?

Yeah, my friend Amy Vodkahaus,

from the original Haus of Haunt, voted for Donald Trump.

She's very proud of herself.

Is that like a subversive kind of dig, or?

No, she's Bosnian,

so she's got her Hillary Clinton issues.

Everybody's got their Hillary Clinton issues, mama.

Yeah, yeah.

But how did you guys feel

the morning after the election?

Oh God.

Next thing you know they're gonna

wanna film the drag process.

With closeups of our feet.

Do you wanna see me getting into drag, it's fascinating.

You wanna see the juxtaposition between beauty and ugly?

How about me in a sequins gown at the dump?

The subversion of it all.

The transgressive ideology.

Can't host, can't host.

Wait, say it.

How long have you been.

How long have you been dressing?

How long have you been dressing?

Looking for other sissies who like to dress.

I have a Dolly Parton wig, champagne teddy.

I keep it in an oak hutch.

I keep all my teddies in an oak hutch.

Mother always said, "Too much for the hutch."

All right, I'm going to work.

We're gonna get in trouble.

We didn't even get cigarettes.

My name is Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova,

but you can call me.

Katya!

Barbara, you fucking idiots.

Hi!

So, listen, oh gosh, we have so much to talk about

but we have even more to do.

These are my dancers.

And if you'll notice, if you have two working eyeballs

and a good sense of smell, they are indeed men.

Hello, governor.

If you've ever seen a developmentally disabled young woman

just splashing around at a local watering hole,

feeling herself, just spreading every limb

of her body in just a convulsive fit

of retardation, that's me.

♪ My first day of Christmas my true love gave to me ♪

♪ 10 pounds of ravioli

♪ On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me ♪

♪ Two Bob Ross Paintings

How am I doing, terribly?

I mean, I'm a niche, like, people coming off the street

were like, "Let's do dinner and a show tonight, Marty.

"We're in Atlantic City."

They came to my show, be like, "Huh.

"What is this?"

I mean literally, what is it?

Like your brain can't get to the next step

in order to process whether it's good or bad.

♪ 10 pounds of ravioli

Oh, fuck.

♪ My true love gave to me

♪ Six Slavic seamen

♪ Five NuvaRings

I saw Sandra Bernhardt in a sheer dress,

eight months pregnant.

She was on HBO in the television,

I was on acid in the living room.

She was scream-singing about something

and I was like, "What is this experience I'm seeing,

"unlike any other thing I saw?"

I was like, "That's what I wanna do."

Jesus Christ, I just wanna fuck you all night long.

When I was younger, going to these weird-ass shows

there was Cirque du Soleil, obsessed.

Then this Japanese butoh dance troupe,

doesn't get any weirder than this

when you're the parent of this wacko child by the way.

Herpes.

Football never did it for me.

I don't get it.

I don't understand.

It makes me feel like an alien.

I wanna give a small slice of that

to like, a weirdo, wacko kid.

♪ Four pregnant piglets

♪ Three roasted meat chunks

♪ Two Bob Ross paintings

♪ And 10 pounds of ravioli

♪ On the ninth day of Christmas ♪

Oh, you know what though?

I actually had a very embarrassingly like,

heavy-handed, metaphorical realization moment

on stage where I was like,

"Oh, I'm processing years of Catholic shame."

♪ Four pregnant piglets

Literally like said to myself out loud,

"This is the only reason I am not killing myself."

♪ Ravioli

Thanks, guys.

Woo!

Okay, you guys are best friends

because of Sharon?

Yeah. Yeah.

Say that, they won't hear me.

Oh, we're best friends because of Sharon Needles.

We met last year of October 16 and 17 at 340 in Pomona

and we're best friends since like,

we traveled to San Fran together on a bus.

Planes.

No hotel, like, we went on a bus together.

For Sharon.

As corny as it is, Sharon is the reason why I'm alive today.

Yeah, same.

She changed my life, knowing her, and because of Sharon.

I've met so many friends because of Sharon.

I had no friends, because of Sharon.

So yeah.

Yeah. Sorry.

I'm so sorry.

No, it's okay.

It's real, like, it's not fake.

We're not like those kind of, yeah.

There you go, darling.

There you go, yes.

There's no microphone?

I'll shut 'em up.

Okay.

Attention!

Shh! Quiet!

Because this is so special for the children,

for all the young people who love each other

on social media, they get to meet their tribe

right in person, and that is everything.

Here we go, now.

Let the DragCon begin!

I know how important it is to the fans

to take pictures with them.

I know what that feels like, to meet one of your idols.

Like when I was a teenager meeting my favorite drag queens,

it was extremely important to me,

and that was just getting to meet them randomly.

It's not like I wanna die or I have a death wish,

but like, wouldn't that be amazing,

if I died in a plane crash?

Well, you guys would be sad,

but they would replay all my episodes

on Logo for like, it would be great.

But I'm glad to be alive

and so let's do this song, it's called.

Well, I'm always just like, little kids,

if you're listening, don't wish for fame,

just wish for fortune.

'Cause fortune is like, way easier.

Fame is just really inconvenient.

♪ I was flying on an airplane

♪ And that airplane almost went down ♪

♪ Down, down, down

♪ All the people started screaming ♪

♪ But I smiled

♪ As I looked around

And I was like, oh my God!

Oh my God!

Woo!

Yeah!

Something about having to be

Jinkx and Jerick all at the same time

and receiving all that energy

while you're also trying to do

this tricky dance of like, when do I be Jinkx,

when do I make the cunty joke to someone

and make them laugh, and when do I turn

into Jerick and let them open up and share that moment?

Tell me things you like about mummy, darling.

I think you have a lovely face and a lovely dress

and a beautiful heart. That's makeup.

It's all fake.

The heart's real, unfortunately.

It's a pig heart.

♪ Legendary

You can't just walk

across the floor at DragCon.

I don't know, I guess it's like being

Mickey Mouse at Disneyland

and he's so busy taking pictures with people

that he can't go on Space Mountain.

♪ You know that's all right

All right.

♪ That's okay

Okurr.

♪ I'd be a legend if I died today ♪

I mean, I feel terrible complaining about my problems.

My life is so fucking lucky and I'm so fucking charmed

and everything is fucking so easy, really.

But all I can do is bitch and complain about it.

I hear myself, I'm doing it now on camera,

in a movie, I'm in a movie,

and my scene is gonna be me bitching about how difficult

my glamorous, ridiculously lucky life is.

♪ Ooh

♪ Ooh, ah, oh, oh, ah, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ah, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

♪ Ah, ooh, ooh

♪ Ooh, ah, ah, ooh

Everyone I've interviewed over the last,

is saying the same thing, you're exhausted.

Yes, it's true.

You are legendary already.

Okay.

Do we have that light?

Can we turn that light on me?

Thank you.

Can someone grab my phone?

Thank you.

Okay, I'm coming out.

Yes, please, yeah.

Okay.

Thank you, I hope I win.

Yes, yes, yes.

I love you so much.

Hi, how are you?

Alaska!

Hey, what's up?

Hi, how are you?

Yes, queen!

To the dressing room?

Hi, hi, hi.

♪ 'Cause you're gonna see me hanging in the Hall of Fame ♪

I love that.

Hi, Roxxxy.

New Year's Eve, 1979.

A lonely military outpost is about to have

its mind blown by an unexpected guest,

a leggy bombshell from the planet Glamtron.

Crash landing on Earth, the newly-named Alaska Thunderfun

is immediately captured by military men

eager to exploit her body's

out-of-this-world special powers.

Read this exciting, uplifting adventure

to discover the legend of Alaska.

So yeah, just tell me when.

Okay, my name's Lil' Poundcake.

I'm five years old but my mom told me to say that I was two.

I weigh 18 pounds.

I'm three foot five.

You're not my real daddy and you never will be.

Okay?

Okay, great.

My name's Lil' Poundcake

and I'm a straight-up motherfucking dickpig.

My name's Lil' Poundcake

and I'm a straight-up motherfucking dickpig.

Okay. So it's like.

But it's like this.

So it's like high but also is like,

can I just hear?

Can you throw like?

My name is Lil' Poundcake

and I'm a straight-up.

We can put Auto-Tune on it, too.

Yeah.

I'm just ridin' dirty.

That's hot.

I'm just ridin' dirty.

Ah!

I'm just ridin' dirty!

I'm just ridin' dirty.

My name's Lil' Poundcake and I'm a straight-up

motherfucking dickpig. And the hands

are molded, so they're creating a mold.

The whole thing's plush but the hands will be molded.

And they're like this. And it's gonna be yeah,

sticking the finger.

Like an American Girl doll.

Yeah, exactly.

That should be the slogan.

Like an American Girl doll.

Oh, should I show you stuff in my house?

Yeah, let's do it.

Okay.

I just got these.

These were custom, so I like, went in,

I talked to them, I like, I don't want a full wig,

I just want the piece

and then a big thing that I can just pop on top.

So they did them, they're very beautiful, and very large.

This is my RuPaul statue.

I bought it when they did the limited run of them

and I had to have one so I bought it.

It's one of my prized possessions.

I keep wigs on the stove,

just 'cause they're big

and I don't really have anywhere else to put them.

I'm thinking maybe the stove

doesn't get turned on a whole lot.

I don't, I do make tea, but that's on this one.

But the rest, I mean, I don't know, yeah.

I don't use the other ones.

This is the spare room where I just put drag.

This is what I'm gonna wear tonight, though.

It's like, long and poofy at the bottom.

I'm really excited.

This is a fox.

Oh, here, this is me on Christmas and this is my dad.

I look to be opening some sort

of Hot Wheels cars or something, which I loved.

I knew I was different all along,

like as early as I had consciousness.

I feel like my mom knew, but I think she also knew that,

I mean, we were living in Erie, Pennsylvania,

you know, in early '90s.

So she was very like, "You need to like,

"not play like a girl

"when you're out playing with your friends."

'Cause I always wanted to be the girl character.

I know it's shocking.

I became like a drag queen though,

basically at the very end of college.

And there was once that we did "Pericles,"

which is a little-known Shakespeare play.

This Russian director came

and he was like the resident director.

And he was like, "You read this."

At first I was reading the male roles.

He asked me to read the madam of the whorehouse.

And I started reading it, and he was like,

"But no, like this, like this."

So I did it in a really high voice

and I got the role and it was pretty epic.

By the end of the run they were like,

"Justin, you need to tone down your makeup

"because it's getting too grotesque and too dark."

I had blacked-out teeth, my lips drawn, wrinkles.

That was the bite of the bug.

Well then I moved to L.A. to be an actor,

'cause I wanted to get out of Pennsylvania.

I thought it was too small.

I was getting called a fag on the street

and I didn't like that and I was like,

"I need to go to a big city,

"either New York or L.A., I don't care which one."

My best friend happened to be living

in Los Angeles so that was it.

Well, Alaska Thunderfuck was a being

that beamed itself into my body.

I remember when I first moved to L.A.

and I knew what she was.

She was a glamazonian princess from the planet Glamtron

who crash landed on Earth and who needs to get

enough Twitter followers to get

her spaceship back up and running again.

And so she saw billboards of beautiful women

and was like, "That's what I'm supposed to look like

"to get through this world."

She does that through her twisted vision of how she sees it.

So like, she think she looks like fucking Marilyn Monroe,

'cause she does.

Jus?

Gabe is coming, I think Cory's coming too.

Oh, Cory's gonna be there too.

Oh my God!

Should I call you after we find out?

Well, yeah, okay.

But then it'll be a spoiler alert.

No, of course, yes.

All right, honey.

Well, I love you.

I love you, too. I'm watching the last.

Bye. Talk to you later.

May the best woman win. Bye.

I think that she thinks I'm not going to win

because of how the fan interaction online

has been in the last week.

'Cause I had a horrible episode last week

where I just looked like an asshole,

so that's all my mom is seeing.

So I think she thinks I'm not gonna win,

so I guess we'll see.

Oh yeah, I've been dreading it since we filmed it.

We filmed it over a year ago

and I've been dreading that episode coming out

and what it was going to look like

and how people were going to respond to it.

The response hasn't been great.

I get so many messages that are like,

"No matter what everyone online says, I still love you."

Which is like, so what are people saying online?

Like, it's that bad?

Yeah.

♪ It's Alaska, bitch

♪ Race

First time around on season five, I didn't win.

I came out of it very well.

And this time it's like,

I did really well in the competition

but as a person I just feel like,

I don't wanna hang out with that person.

That person just needs to chill the fuck out.

♪ I'm a Ru girl

♪ I'm a Ru girl ♪ What

♪ A motherfuckin' Ru girl

♪ All right, all right

♪ Who are you, girl

People think that I'm lying.

Like when I was there I was making decisions.

We had to make really difficult decisions.

I know in my heart that I didn't make any decisions like,

oh, I wanna fuck this person over so I can do better later.

I just made the best decisions that I could.

And I know that in my heart, but people say like,

"Oh yeah, sure girl," because of how it played out on TV.

♪ I'm a Ru girl

♪ What

♪ I'm a Ru girl

♪ Bitch

♪ A motherfuckin' Ru girl

♪ Who are you, girl

♪ I don't know

♪ I'm a Ru girl

I just have dreams about it all the time.

It's like PTSD.

And just like the psychic feeling of even a hundred,

it's probably thousands, of people who are trying

to tell me that I'm a terrible person.

Having that being told to you so much is like,

and then you see it on TV and you're like,

"Well, yeah, they're right."

And so then it's like, am I that?

Am I a bad person?

Am I that person?

And you start to believe it.

Drag is definitely armor.

I do get to work out a lot of the issues

that I have through the art and the character,

which is great, but I do also think

I need therapy after this process.

Like, seriously.

What's your like, worst fear about it?

Like, about tomorrow morning or late tonight.

I mean, my worst fear about it is

that it's going to ruin my reputation

that I've worked really hard for

and that it's gonna make people not wanna work with me

and not hire me and that I won't have a job anymore.

That's worst-case scenario.

'Cause like, this show is more than just a show to people,

it's a religion and it's a way of life

and it's a phenomenon and it's like the Bible.

So if the Bible says that you're a bad person

and you're a cunt and you suck and you're a liar,

then so it is written.

That's it, that's truth.

So I hope that doesn't happen.

Hello?

Hi.

How much longer do we have?

We still have to lip sync for our lives,

we all have to give our speeches.

It's a minute.

Because you're giving your speeches now.

Alaska.

Every single week she's come

and she has slayed the competition.

She understands how Snatch Game works.

You either know it or you don't, and she got it.

Katya.

You are the top three all stars.

My heart is pounding.

Ladies.

The time has come to crown our queen.

The winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars,"

the next queen to be inducted

into the Drag Race Hall of Fame is

Alaska!

Yes, yes!

Yes!

Justin!

Oh my God, Justin,

I have never been so happy for you, honey.

Congratulations, I'm so happy for you.

Did you already know?

Maybe.

Are you there?

Fucking hell, cock-sucking shit, what the fuck?

Nana's calling me now.

Okay, okay, okay.

Hello?

Well, congratulations.

Thank you, Nana.

Oh my God.

Yeah, did your mother call you yet?

She did.

It got disconnected, I don't know what happened.

Yeah, yeah, listen,

I want you to take that money and invest it.

You bet I am.

All right, don't go blowing it on everything.

Well.

I want you to invest it

for your future, for retirement.

I will, that's a very good idea.

I will definitely do that.

Just don't blow it on Popsicles.

Right, just candy.

You knew this though, didn't you?

Well, I don't know, maybe.

It's one of the great mysteries of the world.

Who knows?

Okay, someday you'll tell me.

Yeah, I'll tell you when you're 90.

On my dying bed.

No, I'll tell you when you're 90.

Hello?

Justin, so did you know you won?

Maybe a little.

It was so awesome.

Yay.

So happy for you, I'm so happy.

You got on the good video.

I guess it's like, I mean,

that's really exciting for them.

You know, I knew and I knew that

it was gonna be whatever it was gonna be,

but they didn't get to have

that moment on season five, you know?

They didn't get to have that and they do now,

and I'm sure they're just so fucking happy about it.

That's great.

Oh.

♪ Start your engines

♪ It's Alaska, bitch

♪ It was always my dream to get on the Race ♪

♪ So I let Sharon Needles sit on my face ♪

Going into reality TV, no matter who you were before,

you're putting it in someone else's hands.

I'm owning the evil queen persona

that has been thrust upon me, because what else can you do?

I'm finding power in it.

The winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars,"

the next queen to be inducted.

You have to take the worst stuff

that happens to you and make art out of it,

or it will kill you.

Alaska.

♪ This is for the ones talking shit on my page ♪

♪ I guess I'd be a dick too at minimum wage ♪

The worst things at that time was,

Alaska, you're nothing but a snake.

You're not who I thought you were, you're just a snake.

And now I sell shirts where it's me surrounded by snakes,

and I'm sitting in front of a thing

that has snakes all over it.

Now the snake is my spirit animal.

It's the only way to survive.

You have to take the horrible things

and make it into art and make it fun and love it.

♪ 'Cause I'm a Ru girl

♪ I'm a Ru girl

♪ A motherfucking Ru girl

You're my home and you're my people and I am your queen.

♪ I'm a Ru girl

♪ I'm a motherfucking Ru girl

♪ And I just won "All Stars 2"

Sharon. No, I like mine.

Have you always been a big fat awful person?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Brand loyalty.

'Cause I just think, especially now,

especially with Kim Kardashian, it's just too surface, man.

It's like, they don't give a fuck,

the little commenters on YouTube.

Some of those kids don't even listen to a fucking word.

It's like they watch it with the sound off.

They're like, "Oh my God, they look so good.

"I don't understand what she's wearing, though."

Or like, whatever, it's all they see is just surface shit.

I swear, maybe I'm just being way too harsh and critical

or just bitter and old or something,

but yeah, the kids are just so obsessed

they don't know how to talk to it,

all they know how to do is put eyeliner on.

So, you're going there for Christmas?

Right before and then I do a show there

and then leave on Christmas Eve.

Where are you going for Christmas?

All my family is going to

my brother's in Washington state.

Are you going or do you work that?

No.

Alaska, what are you doing for Christmas?

My mom was like, "I don't want anyone

"to talk about politics

"at the holidays." No, let's talk about it.

So out of respect I'm like,

"Okay, well I'm not going to,"

but it's also like, members of my family are like,

personally affronting my existence

and I don't feel comfortable not talking about that.

It's like, I don't wanna fucking see you.

I don't wanna fucking see your fucking face.

Did you go for Thanksgiving?

I did and no one came to my mom's house.

Oh my gosh, look who it is.

Fucking Donald Trump, and he's mad

he didn't get what he wanted for Christmas.

Oh, man, what the?

♪ Uh, uh, uh

♪ Girl, why you complaining

♪ You're not in India starving

♪ It's not like you don't have nothing ♪

♪ You're so damn spoiled, it's alarming ♪

♪ You got some parents that love you ♪

♪ A brother that bugs you

♪ So lucky that you got a rooftop above you ♪

♪ Christmas is cool, so get into it ♪

♪ You get what you get and you don't throw a fit ♪

♪ Christmas rocks, Christmas rocks ♪

♪ Christmas rocks, Christmas rocks ♪

♪ Look, I just got a pair of tube socks ♪

♪ Christmas rocks, Christmas rocks ♪

♪ Wanna bet me, I'll bet you a million bucks ♪

♪ Thank you Mom and Dad, I can't really be sad ♪

♪ 'Cause I guess Christmas really isn't isn't that bad ♪

Well, before the election

and just being a transgressive asshole that I am,

I would say in the press and I would say a lot

like, you know, "Let Trump win,

"let's return to fags being punk

"and being against the system," because you know,

we had eight years of Obama

and our fan base tends to be a little younger.

So our fans basically grew up with "Drag Race" and Obama.

So I was kind of like, "Oh God, bring Trump in."

Remind these kids, you know,

just how quick things can change

and how a new normal can sprout up overnight

and well, I take it all back now.

Oops.

Has the Trump administration changed

how I feel about my job?

A little, but not as much as how Orlando

has changed how I feel about my job.

I found out about the Pulse tragedy

on the Battle of the Seasons tour on the tour bus

and we had to go straight to Minneapolis

and do a show that night.

God, everyone was so freaked out that day, too.

It was really weird.

Michelle sang "Take a Bow" by Madonna every night

and she's like, "Will you all come on stage with me?"

And we were just a mess.

It was a messy-ass show.

But that was the only show my mom came to see,

so it was really nice, you know?

Oh, I'm so sorry, I don't think I ever got

that sad about Orlando for awhile.

Well, it sucks.

I forgot about that day, too.

It was so crazy.

It was so crazy I ate meat.

You ate meat?

Yeah, I just didn't give a fuck,

I went to Jimmy John's and had a BLT, it was so good.

And you're a PETA,

well, you're a well-known vegetarian.

Who cares?

That pig was really mean.

No, the Native Americans believe

that there are two-spirit beings who are men and women

and their function in society is healers

and truth-tellers and soothsayers and that's what we do.

We put on fantastical costume

and dress and we go out

and we make a spectacle and we tell the truth

and we exorcise people of their demons.

That's what we actually do.

So did you always know that you were a witch like that?

How long ago did you find out?

Well, I didn't realize that's what I was doing

when I started, I just had to do it.

I was called to do it.

I had to.

I remember you said that

on the show, "This is my calling."

And I was like, "Oh, hundred percent agree."

It is.

It's a calling.

We don't choose to do it, it makes no sense.

Well, now kids choose to do it.

Choose to do it, but I couldn't do anything else.

Yeah, exactly.

I literally couldn't work at Starbucks

'cause I would be so bad and afraid at it.

But it's like, for some reason,

slamming my fucking gross dick-pussy

into the ground a million times

is like a cathartic experience that people love but--

Well, some people love it.

General public seems to think it's okay.

You've been panned critically.

Yeah, and pandered to.

Just across the board.

You have like, a 2 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

Thank you for two, I was gonna say one.

You're so generous, snake.

It is now that we must band together.

We must unify, we must rally, we must join up

arm and arm and protect one another,

so that no matter where this world goes next,

at least we'll have each other.

And what's the best way to unify a group of people?

What's the best way to rally people together?

It's with a rousing anthem.

Being a drag queen is kind of like,

it's a clown stripper.

You're half clown, half stripper.

I think it's very important to have clowns

and to have people willing to like,

make fun of themselves for the sake

of making a better community

or to make fun of the people who are bullies

and are adversaries so that we know

that we're just as strong, if not stronger than them.

I've always been really nervous

about being too truthful or to say and speak

and be and do as I really am in here.

The second you start editing your work

for the perception of other people is impending doom.

There's a reason why successful artists

get to where they are and you gotta go with your gut.

Through Sharon, I learned to not give a fuck,

and through Alaska I learned what you can achieve

when you commit yourself fully to something,

and from Katya I learned not to be

brainwashed by my society anymore.

Has the perception of drag changed, yes.

Do I think they're ever gonna allow them

to be in mainstream media, never.

I guess I see a world where it's not

a goal to become mainstream.

It's a goal to just be pure.

That's actually the goal.

Drag is realness.

In a world where it's like complete bullshit

on the television at all times.

On the billboard, in the newspaper,

on Instagram, everything is fake,

but drag, going to a drag show, that's something real.

We live in a society that still is so rigid

and still has so many constraints on how

you're supposed to be allowed to express yourself.

It's a business to brainwash people.

We live in a capitalist society.

Any trick to get people to spend money on

what you want them to spend money on is fair game.

And to see someone who's so not brainwashed

gives us hope.

It's what drag is at its core, is being a truth-teller,

is holding a mirror up to this society

that we live in and - Look at that.

Isn't that fucking something.

Let's laugh at it, let's celebrate it,

but also take the fucking piss out of it.

Let's regurgitate it and interpret it and make it ours.

Make it human, make it fucking real.

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair, I don't wear wigs ♪

♪ This is my hair

♪ This is my hair