The Olympics of drag is heating up – a new ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ begins this August, starring queens from across the world, including our own backyard!
Logie nominee and ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under’ season two runner-up Kween Kong will burn the torch once more for Australia, and she’ll be joined by a stellar line-up of some of the world’s best drag queens, including Alyssa Edwards (USA), Athena Likis (Belgium), Eva Le Queen (Philippines), Gala Varo (Mexico), Kitty Scott-Claws (UK), Miranda Lebrao (Brazil), Nehellenia (Italy), Pythia (Canada), Soa de Muse (France), Tessa Testicle (Germany) and Vanity Vain (Sweden).
The new series also has a timely ‘Olympics of Drag’ theme – a nod to how ‘Drag Race’ is referred to in the drag community, due to the intense challenges, preparation, skill and physicality required to take part.
Kween Kong joins this iteration of ‘Drag Race’ not long after another one of our own, Hannah Conda, become a runner-up on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World’, proving that down under queens have what it takes to compete on an international scale.
The new series of ‘Drag Race Down Under’ will premiere later this year, in time for the party season – hosted by Michelle Visage for the first time in the 15-year history of the show’s franchise. Rhys Nicholson will also return on the main panel, alongside ‘Down Under’ drag royalty.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ premieres 16 August on Stan.
This story originally appeared on our queer sister site, FROOTY.
