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The House Of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
Oct. 28th, 2024 12:24 amThe Blurb On The Back:
From international drag queen superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul comes his most revealing and personal work to date - a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir.
From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s chameleonic nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul. It is this adaptability that has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.
Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental other, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes in Atlanta and New York and finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living - a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of a chosen family, the importance of harassing what makes you different and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
RuPaul Charles is a drag icon, actor, podcaster and the host and producer of an international drag show competition franchise. Although this memoir intends to reveal the real RuPaul and he talks a lot about a traumatic childhood through to the beginnings of his drag career and how he met his husband Georges LeBar, there’s a therapy filter at play here, which creates a sense of distance so I came away feeling like I hadn’t seen the real RuPaul.
From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s chameleonic nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul. It is this adaptability that has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.
Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental other, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes in Atlanta and New York and finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living - a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of a chosen family, the importance of harassing what makes you different and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
RuPaul Charles is a drag icon, actor, podcaster and the host and producer of an international drag show competition franchise. Although this memoir intends to reveal the real RuPaul and he talks a lot about a traumatic childhood through to the beginnings of his drag career and how he met his husband Georges LeBar, there’s a therapy filter at play here, which creates a sense of distance so I came away feeling like I hadn’t seen the real RuPaul.
