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RuPaul To Be Honored With Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

RuPaul is finally getting his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

“WOW! Just found out! Dream come true!”
“Sweet Cheeses! My heart is beating so fast right now! – RuPaul to Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame”

Also chosen this year by the Walk of Fame Selection Committee are Kirsten Dunst, Gina Lollobrigida, Linda Carter, Simon Cowell, Ryan Murphy, Taraji P Henson, Petula Clark, Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, Weird Al Yankovic, Minnie Mouse, Niecy Nash, Mary J Blige, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and posthumous stars to Steve Irwin and Bernie Mac.

It’s not well known, but celebs chosen for the honor have two years to schedule their star ceremonies or they expire. Additionally, a sponsor is needed for each star as the cost for installation is $40,000.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is one of the top tourist attractions in Los Angeles.

It’s been a big year for RuPaul what with winning the Emmy and MTV awards, landing on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, celebrating RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s highest ratings ever, plus guest spots on Broad City and Girl Boss, and marrying longtime bf Georges.

Reminder: RuPaul’s Drag Race airs it’s season finale tonight at 8PM on VH1.

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News Round-Up: June 15, 2017

Some news items you might have missed:

• RuPaul stars as cover girl on Entertainment Weekly this week for the LGBTQ issue. Speaking of his 8 year hiatus from his glamorous alter-ego: “I thought, ‘Could it be that this is not meant for me?’ It was this horrible existence. One day, my friend Larry Tee called me and said, ‘Ru, what the f—k are you doing? You are a star. Get your ass back to New York and get your s—t together.’ And I did…I’m going to go back to New York and give those bitches exactly what they want from me.”

• The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to impose new sanctions on Russia while simultaneously blocking the president from lifting those penalties.

• Homocon journalist says gays only care about “pop music and going to the beach,” adding “they probably don’t know what the Second Amendment is.”

• The Washington Post has had record readership thanks in great part to exceptional reporting on the Trump administration.

• Queerty reviews the best day pool parties in Las Vegas. Who wants to get wet and wild?

• MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow covers Rolling Stone Magazine: “We have a mantra when it comes to this administration: ‘Don’t pay attention to what they say, focus on what they do.’ And that is very helpful, because it’s easier to cover a fast-moving story when you’re not distracted by whatever the White House denials are.”

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News Round-Up: April 20, 2017

Some news items you may have missed:

• Jerry Herman’s classic Broadway musical Hello, Dolly! returns to the Great White Way tonight at the Shubert Theatre in a brand new revival starring a reportedly delicious Bette Midler. I made my Broadway debut in the last revival back in 1995 (I’m on the far left above) when Carol Channing made a spectacular return to the role of “Dolly Levi.” Wishing this new cast all the best for a fantastic run!

• TIME Magazine names Gavin Grimm, Sarah Paulson and RuPaul to this year’s “100 Most Influential People” list.

• Adam Medrano, the council member who chairs City Hall’s LGBT Task Force, has made LGBT youth homelessness a top priority. His leadership has led to the creation of Outlast Youth, a collaborative effort intent on finding beds, counseling, health care and job training for homeless LGBT youth.

• On the other end of the spectrum in Texas news, Governor Abbott says he wants to sign a transgender “bathroom bill.”

• Turning this year’s Pride Parade in Los Angeles into an anti-Trump march is making it tough to attract the event’s usual sponsors.

• CNN spoke to to two men who describe being detained, beaten and tortured in Chechnya as part of the country’s violent crackdown on homosexuality. Watch below:

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News Round-Up: March 29, 2017

The cast of What Happens at the Abbey

Some news items you may have missed:

• West Hollywood gay bar, The Abbey, is getting it’s own reality TV show, What Happens at the Abbey (above pic) a la Vanderpump Rules. The show premieres on E! May 14th at 10pm.

• RuPaul has some advice for any bachelorette parties who want to celebrate at gay bars: “Check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

• A gay HIV/AIDS activist will seek the Democratic nomination to fight for a Texas congressional seat that has been held firmly by 32 year incumbent, Rep. Joe Barton.

• Tens of thousands of New Yorkers, tired of footing the $146,000 daily cost of protecting the First Lady, have signed a petition demanding Melania Trump move into the White House.

• The Republican-controlled House just voted to kill internet privacy rules from the Obama era, meaning internet providers can now sell your browsing history to the highest bidder.

• Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus blocked an anti-transgender “bathroom bill” from reaching the floor.

• Rep. Maxine Waters takes on Bill O’Reilly’s racism with some straight talk: “Don’t allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people to intimidate you or scare you.”

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Podcast: Bette Midler On Broadway, RuPaul Gets His Own “Origins” TV Series

In this week’s headlines on The Randy Report podcast:

• Reports say Bette Midler’s performance in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway is a killer, and that was almost the truth

• An 18 year old gay rodeo cowboy says he’s not going to be corralled back into the closet

• RuPaul is getting his own “origins” TV series

• Gloria Gaynor is headed to the Library of Congress

• Taiwan could be the first nation in Asia to legalize marriage equality

All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report. Hit play below.

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JJ Abrams To Produce TV Series Based On RuPaul’s Early Days

Drag queen, Emmy Award winner and ‘Supermodel of the world,’ RuPaul, will get his own origins story on the small screen via JJ Abrams.

According to Deadline, the series will cover Ru’s early days in a punk band, “gender fuck” club kid, and nascent career highlights such as being a featured dancer in the music video for the B-52’s “Love Shack.”

Of course, since then it’s been fab glam-ness for the man who’s conquered the mainstream with music, TV, and his own MAC makeup campaign.

No word yet on which network will air the series.

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RuPaul Announces He’s Married!

Georges LeBar and RuPaul Charles

Promoting the 9th season of hit reality series, RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul Charles appeared today on talk show Hollywood Today Live. And during the interview, Ru surprised with news about his longtime partner, Georges Lebar.

Talking about their 23 year relationship, which stretches back to 1994, Ru was asked if they would ever get married, and that’s when he surprised everyone.

“You know what?” he said. “I don’t think I’ve said this on television before. We are married.”

“I met him on the dance floor at Limelight in 1994 on his birthday,” he explained. “So we got married on his birthday on the anniversary of when we met… so this year in January.”

Congrats to the happy couple!

Watch Ru share the news below at the 1:25 mark.

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News Round-Up: November 15, 2016

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Mark-Paul Gosselaar beefed up for his new role as the captain of the first baseball team to hire a female pitcher on Fox’s Pitch. Batter up!

• Donald Trump announces the leader of a white nationalist movement to be chief strategist in the White House. What could possibly go wrong?

 • Sen. Barbara Boxer files legislation to repeal the Electoral College as Hillary Clinton nears 1 million more votes than Donald Trump in presidential election.

• Gwen Ifill, co-host of PBS Newshour passes away at 61 after a battle with cancer. She will be missed – what a class act.

• Trump supporter shoves anti-Trump protester down stairs at peaceful rally in Ohio.

• RuPaul on the Trumpeter as prez:

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RuPaul: “The Biggest Obstacle Is Overcoming The Limited Perception Of Yourself”

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Speaking to GQ Magazine, RuPaul shares his thoughts on overcoming the negative voices (or “saboteurs” as he calls them) in our own heads that become our greatest obstacles.

Looking back on my career, all the people I’ve met who are so talented… I think that the biggest obstacle is overcoming the limited perception of yourself.

A lot of people who have been victimized are stuck in the idea of perceiving themselves as a victim. Or as a starving artist, or as someone who’s not good with numbers or business or money. And that perception of yourself is what holds you in place. A lot of those people I came up with—who are, by the way, way more talented than me—didn’t have the ability to shut out the saboteur.

And you see it on our show play out every season where a kid is given a challenge and they say, “Oh, but I’m not a comedy queen,” or “I don’t know how to act,” and it’s like, actually, you do, but you have to move the blockage from that blessing so it can come through. Years ago my therapist told me, “The power that you have in drag, Ru, is available to you out of drag.”

With 100% certainty, I agree.

I’ve met tons of successful people in my life. Some have been vastly talented, some not so much. But overcoming the idea that you’re “limited” or “stuck” is a far more difficult wall to climb than not being “as talented as.”

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Radio Show: The Randy Report – RuPaul, Barbra Streisand & Whoopi Goldberg

My latest radio show on BlogTalkRadio:

This week in LGBT news:

• Out singer/songwriter Olly Alexander and his band Years & Years release new song for upcoming Bridget Jones film

• Craig Jungwirth indicted for terrorist threats via social media against gay community in Southern Florida

• Bombing in NYC gay neighborhood of Chelsea

• RuPaul makes history with win at the Emmy Awards

• NCAA pulls 7 championship games from North Carolina over anti-LGBT HB2

• Barbra Streisand’s Trump parody of “Send In The Clowns” is a hit at LGBT fund raiser for Hillary Clinton

• Whoopi Goldberg shares, “Transgender people have been with us forever.”

• More trouble behind the scenes of Logo TV’s “Finding Prince Charming”

• Brian Justin Crum killed it this week with Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” on America’s Got Talent