If I could, I would cover RuPaul interviews every week. It’s not that I’m a crazy RuPaul super-fan, but I just love his interviews SO much. The only reason I don’t cover RuPaul’s interviews all the time is because people don’t think to interview him all that much. Either that, or RuPaul just doesn’t do the media promotional tour like other stars. He’s not chatting with The Hollywood Reporter or Variety. He’s not giving an exclusive to People Mag. I covered his interview with New York Mag back in March, and it was SO good. And now he’s chatting with NY Mag again, this time following the first-ever Emmy nomination for RuPaul’s Drag Race. You can read the full piece here, which I would recommend because everything that comes out of his mouth is glorious. Some highlights:

His reaction to getting his first Emmy nom: “Well, my agents called me up and told us that we had been nominated, and my first thought was I was happy for Logo getting that kind of recognition. Logo is a corporation. The industry, which is a corporation, recognizing another corporation is good for business. It’s great. But, like I said before, I’ve lived my life and worked my career outside of the system, off the grid, so for me to start being inspired by what other people think of me is not what I’m about.”

The Emmys are junior high school: “You know, in ninth grade, I won best dancer and best Afro. And I indeed had the best Afro and was the best dancer, but that’s not what got me the award. What got me the award was I was hanging out with all the right people, and life doesn’t change much when you leave junior high school. It’s the same.”

A spectacular George Clooney reference: “Well, I know that probably having me on the ballot reflects what’s happening with the times. You see certain actors who have been bachelors their whole lives — real f–k machines. By the time they’re 50, they have to settle down, marry someone, and have a child because, if they don’t, they’ll be portrayed in the press as being an old latch, or a creepy old guy who’s preying on young poon. So it’s an image thing. It’s like politics. There’s a certain way you can play the public to where they don’t catch on to your ways.”

Trump & the lowest common denominator: “The truth is, you look at the selection, you see what people are doing, and you see, Okay, the subconscious mind, it’s still going for the lowest common denominator. Yes, Trump is this weirdo and he’s creepy, but the saddest, most worrisome part of this is that there are millions and millions of people who are devotees! What I’m trying to say is that people put on this face because it makes them look good, but underneath lurking in the subconscious is this other face that you’re thinking, Ooh, that’s f–king gross! And most people act from that subconscious, gross place.”

What he thinks of Hillary Clinton & the Democrats: “I f–king love them. I have always loved them. And let me just say this: If you’re a politician — not just in Washington but in business and industry, you have to be a politician — there are a lot of things that you have to do that you’re not proud of. There are a lot of compromises you have to make because it means that you can get this other thing over here. And if you think that you can go to f–king Washington and be rainbows and butterflies the whole time, you’re living in a f–king fantasy world. So now, having said that, think about what a female has to do with that: All of those compromises, all of that sh-t, double it by ten. And you get to understand who this woman is and how powerful, persuasive, brilliant, and resilient she is. Any female executive, anybody who has been put to the side — women, blacks, gays — for them to succeed in a white-male-dominated culture is an act of brilliance. Of resilience, of grit, of everything you can imagine. So, what do I think of Hillary? I think she’s f–king awesome. Is she in bed with Wall Street? Goddammit, I should hope so! You’ve got to dance with the devil. So which of the horrible people do you want? That’s more of the question. Do you want a pompous braggart who doesn’t know anything about diplomacy? Or do you want a badass bitch who knows how to get sh-t done? That’s really the question.

[From Vulture]

RuPaul also has a surprisingly philosophical take on what’s happening between Donald Trump, his supporters and the structure of the GOP, and how “there are people who are rejecting the forward motion of mankind. And they don’t want to be present for what’s happening because they don’t want to change.” It’s really profound, no joke. He also talks about the tragedy at Pulse in Orlando and that moved me to tears. But what he said about Hillary being an outsider to the system and succeeding in a male-dominated society… damn. RuPaul is the best.

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