![]() ![]() ![]() That people literally just don’t know better. There was a surprising amount of animosity, even at last night’s live finale, toward contestant Derrick Barry. I wish I hadn’t worn leggings on the last episode. The only one was my leggings on the last episode. In my mind, it was weird when I wasn’t doing it, like, why wasn’t I here before? What was it like watching yourself on the show? If there’s a picture of RuPaul wearing a bikini, I’m like, Dad, put some clothes on! I don’t really have a drag mom, but whenever I write on social media about RuPaul, I always call him Dad. Would you consider RuPaul your drag mother? I ordered a makeup kit off of Ben Nye.com, TK-7 makeup kit, which is their darkest makeup kit, and I started doing drag from there. I watched the first episode, and I started Tivoing every episode - this was back when Tivo was a thing. I moved to New York City to be a comedian and an actor, and one day I was flipping through Tivo and I saw RuPaul had a new show. ![]() I didn’t do drag before RuPaul’s Drag Race. When I changed my name to Bob the Drag Queen, everything changed for me. I’m just going to become Bob the Drag Queen. my name for three years, and I was like, I’ve had enough of this. It is a little irreverent, and pokes fun while being original. And that’s how I ended up with the name Bob, Bob the Drag Queen. So I made my name as simple as possible, and I also thought it was really funny. The true story is my old drag name, no one could remember it, and everyone always says the wrong thing. Most drag queens don’t have an interesting story about how they got their drag name. It’s kind of another acting challenge on the show, but this one really counts, you know what I mean? There’s just so much going on in that moment, it’s hard to articulate all of the emotions. Then you’re also there with your friends who you’ve been with on this journey the entire way. It’s a combination of feelings all culminating into this one moment: There’s happiness, there’s joy, there’s intimidation. I pretty much immediately started crying as soon as I found out. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he thanked his friends and family, and reminded everyone to buy his new single on iTunes, “Purse First.” When Vulture spoke with Bob, whose given name is Christopher Caldwell, the morning after, he talked about why he knew he would win the competition, the origins of his phrase, “purse first,” and the political statement of drag. Violet Chachki, last year’s winner, pinned a crown to her wig, as he learned along with the rest of America that he’d won season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Bob the Drag Queen walked onto to the dais at Stage 48 last night in a floor-length brown sequined dress. ![]()
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