Would Carlotta, Australia’s most celebrated drag queen, have made it on RuPaul’s Drag Race?
- Written by Joanna McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
After the first season last year wobbled on its heels, the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under began last weekend.
In becoming the global beacon of drag, Drag Race has set new ideals for what it means to do drag. But while Drag Race may have brought drag into the global media centre, in Australia drag has long been celebrated in...





