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Topline: Elliot Page comes out
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Bianca Del Rio skewers ‘Drag Race’ on ‘Hateful Hags Network’
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‘Happiest Season’ is the cheesy Christmas movie we deserve
A coming-out story and a holiday rom-com formula shouldn’t work together—but they do
A divinely illustrated history of drag
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Topline: Mike Tyson and the RCMP
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