![]() The great popularity drag has experienced since the release of Drag Race has generated an expansion of the understanding of this artistic expression as much as it has expanded the varied ways in which drag can be done. There are many different styles of drag in Spain.” The important thing is not whom we kiss, but to respect each other.” She adds: “The current drag scene is very varied. The runner-up of the Spanish version of RuPaul’s Drag Race affirms that the role of a drag performer is “to report, to make people have a good time and to forget a little about their life dramas and mainly to make people think. But I’m very happy with what I’ve done in the show.” “In some challenges I got a little carried away by nerves, I could have given a little more of myself in some challenges. She reveals to us how she was betrayed by nerves at times, but still she is happy with her trajectory. At the meet and greet, for example, we thought that few people were going to come, but there were a lot of people, they were very excited and some of them were very nervous too.” Now surfing the crest of the wave after her striking trajectory on Drag Race España, Sagittaria is enjoying public recognition while touring around Spain with the other contestants. They have already held parties, artistic gigs, exhibitions and also two theatre performances “in which each one of us expresses our voice as a sexual dissident migrant here in Spain”. Their goal is to boost both the voice and the Latin aesthetic in Madrid’s nightlife. She is one of the members of Casa Drag Latina, a drag house founded by Nativa, a Mexican queen who lives in Spain and, due to the lack of space and opportunities for Latin American migrants, decided to create a house which currently has drag artists from Ecuador, Brazil and Peru. The work I do with my drag is thinking over the history of migration here in Spain and combining it with anti-racism, and everything that drag entails such as comedy or for vindictive purposes.” To Gadyola, it’s her claim that sets her apart: “I’m an anti-racist drag queen. We are in art centres, museums, galleries, and we are doing things to change the mindset of the most conservative, homophobic and racist people.” “ we do a very organic activism because we are not in the Parliament, we are in the streets. A fan-favourite to be cast in the upcoming second season of Drag Race España, Gadyola was born in Peru and migrated to Spain when she was 10 years old. We are heading to a new world in which classifying drag queens as fashion, pageant or comedy queens is becoming obsolete. When asked where else she wants her career to take her, she answers: “My main goal is to get to the Vatican and become the first transvestite pope in history.” She was invited to participate in the TV series Veneno and Drag Race España, the two biggest productions in Spain when it comes to LGTBQ+ television. Samantha is my baby, a baby built on obscenity, rudeness, and very little shame,” she explains to us. It started out as an innocent project for a high school job and has turned into another extension of myself. “Samantha Hudson is a faggot turned woman and a woman turned trash. ![]() Alongside these historical names you will also find the name of Samantha Hudson, who some years ago upset the Catholic Church in Mallorca, Spain with a parody music video entitled Maricón that was her high school project. On a more serious note, if you happen to google people that have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church throughout history you will come across a list with well-known names such as the likes of Martin Luther, together with less known aristocrats from some centuries ago. ![]() In this case, they are not much worried about world peace, but about getting some cash. In this tale, all you can see on the comic strips are wigs, lots of sequins, makeup, and a bad bitch attitude that reins over the villainess and, surprisingly, also over the alleged superheroine. In this comic-inspired, glamorous fantasy, three drag queens decided that the best way to get some quick cash was dealing with some mobsters and taking their money.
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