Before RuPaul: The history of drag | What the History?!

Published: 28 June 2023
on channel: American Experience | PBS
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"RuPaul's Drag Race" premiered on television in 2009. In 2016, the show won its first Emmy, a feat it has replicated in every single subsequent year. Clearly, drag is popular. But what exactly is drag? And how did it find its way into the limelight? In this episode of WHAT THE HISTORY, host Sami Jarroush serves the tea on drag.

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This episode of WHAT THE HISTORY?! is inspired by the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary CASA SUSANNA: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...

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