‘We fall in love with the flaws’: RuPaul’s Drag Race judge on what makes a winner

RuPaul Drag Race’s Michelle Visage believes drag has always been political. She describes it as a “big f*** you”.

“A man putting on drag is a political statement. Anybody doing whatever they want in drag has always been a political statement,” Visage told the ABC.

Visage, a self-described drag queen, says her love of drag has practically been lifelong.

“Nobody was into drag the way I was into drag,” she recalls.

She’s been going to drag shows since she was in her teens and remembers when people in the 80s were dismissive of drag as a legitimate performance art.

“I’d be like, why don’t you want to go to see these drag shows? And they’re like, ‘Girl, they’re drag queens.'”