Spottycat44's New Sanctuary: January 2021

Thursday 21 January 2021

Top 10 Favourite Drag Race Queens: #3: Peppermint

Continuing my Top 10 Queens from the first 10 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race

#3:

Peppermint

@Peppermint247

Peppermint is a history making Queen as the first contestant to come onto Drag Race as an out and open Transgender Woman and while her record is not as impressive as some other queens she s the first Trans Woman to make the final 4 on Drag Race finishing as first runner up. She is in elite company being from a season where the other final 4 are ANDS Sasha Velour and Hall of Fame Members Trinity "The Tuck" Taylor (All Stars Season 4 co-winner) and Shea Coulee (All Stars Season 5 Winner) She is also a Drag Aunt to Drag Race Hall of Famer Monet X Change (Co-winner All Stars 4) and Bob the Drag Queen (ANDS Season 8).

Although she has not been invited back to participate on Drag Race after season 9 she has gone on to be an actress having a guest appearance on FX's Pose and Originating the role of Pythio in the Broadway musical inspired by The Go-Gos "Head Over Heels" landing her another first, the first Trans woman to originate a role in a Broadway performance.

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Thursday 14 January 2021

Gone Cruising

Top 10 Favourite Drag Race Queens: #4: BenDeLaCreme

Continuing my Top 10 Queens from the first 10 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race

#4:

BenDeLaCreme

@bendelacreme

BenDeLeCreme is one of the most successful and popular Queens in Drag Race herstory, winning Miss Congeniality in Season 6 after making the top five. This after only being in the bottom a total of twice (Both times with Darrien Lake as their first Lip Synch was the season's double save), racking up 2 wins, 3 High finishes, 2 safes and 1 other low ranking.

When she returned for All Stars 3, after declining All Stars 2, she was on track to win that season handedly and guarantee her spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame, as the first 4 episodes had her one of the two winners all four times, twice losing the lipsynch for your life, once winning the lipsynch and one double win. She took an episode out of the top by being merely safe and came back in the sixth episode once again winning not just the challenge but the lipsynch itself only to reveal that she had written her own name in white-out on the lipstick instead of eliminating one of her fellow competitors. This performance netted her three unique accolades The only queen to ever win four consecutive challenges, the only queen to win 5 challenges in a season and the only queen to ever win Snatch Game twice.