RUPAUL: Even before I was born, my mother had predicted I would become famous. It’s as though you were provided a stage name at birth. METRO WEEKLY: In researching you, one of the things that I found interesting was that RuPaul is actually your given name. When the show is over, we go and get booked in another show and do another character.” It’s as though Earth were a stage play and we were all playing a character. “Some people take the human experience very seriously and really get into character. “The truth is we are all spiritual beings having a human experience,” says RuPaul, who will appear on Friday night at Town and again on Sunday at the Capital Pride Festival. Yet, beneath the makeup, beneath the glamour, lies a quiet, unassuming man who is at once kind and soft-spoken, opinionated and fiercely intelligent, comfortable not only with the persona he has created but with the path the universe has set him on.Įrika Jayne Accuses Kathy Hilton of Using Anti-Gay Slur That irreverence is the fuel that still powers RuPaul’s outrageous ship. “She’d love that I fuck with people’s heads and that I do it with love and in a way that isn’t nasty. ”I think she’d say, ‘Right on, Ru, right on! Give ’em fuckin’ hell, baby! You rock!'” says RuPaul. RuPaul’s mother passed away 16 years ago, but the performer is certain she would be proud of her son-turned-drag-icon. She was mad I was wasting her good makeup.” “She wasn’t mad that I was playing with girl’s stuff. “She’d catch me with all her makeup on and get mad,” RuPaul recalls. “My mother was a very rebellious, question authority-type person, and she instilled in me ‘Don’t let other people’s opinion stop you from doing whatever you wanted to do as long as you don’t hurt anybody.'”Īccording to RuPaul, Ernestine Charles always knew her 6’7″ son would be a star - though she probably didn’t expect the star to go supernova as a result of well-coiffed wigs, designer gowns and six-inch heels. 17, 1960, the performer credits both the guidance of the universe - “I am a spiritual being” is a constant refrain during an hour-long phone conversation - and a strong-willed mother for his eventual success. Until then, fans can get their RuPaul fix through her newest dance album, Champion.īorn RuPaul Andre Charles in California on Nov. The second season begins filming in July and debuts on Logo next January. For users who find their desktops littered with aliases, and for those whose Docks are full to bursting, DragThing can be a great space saver.RuPaul would no doubt hope her GLBT fans will continue to make her latest television endeavor, the reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race, appointment viewing. Other new features include the ability to navigate more than five levels deep when you control-click on folders in a dock, support for custom DragThing sounds, and OS X support for labels. In another time-saver, you can also now set hot keys to control individual docks. The tab you move over with your mouse is even automatically selected for you, making it easy to get to important items without using much screen space. When you slide your cursor over them, the dock slides out to reveal the icons within. This new version is even more OS X savvy than its predecessors, with a slick trick for minimizing its own individual docks à la OS X’s default Dock: when the Show Dock As Drawer preference is selected, only the tabs of your DragThing dock will appear along the edge of your screen. So we’re happy to report that with version 4.5.2, DragThing is still our favorite shareware file launcher. ![]() We’ve long promoted DragThing as a fantastic Finder enhancement that gives users a way to organize their desktops via floating “docks” full of icons that represent programs, documents, and even URLs.
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