Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 8 recap: Paying respects to the legendary legends

Five All Stars winners’ spirits are in the room for this week’s design challenge

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 7 power ranking: Ru crime genre

Who stands tallest in this season’s latest improv challenge?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 7 recap: ‘Mama is here to straighten shit out’

It takes a wake-up call from RuPaul to snap the cast out of their spiral

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 6 power ranking: Studio gals

It took a Rusical to finally spice things up this season, without putting a frontrunner in danger

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 6 recap: Don’t fuck with Joan, fellas

A Rusical challenge puts the season back on the right track

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 5 power ranking: An unfinished journey

One queen barely survives elimination thanks to another’s choice

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 5 recap: Snatched away

A queen makes an unceremonious—and frustrating—exit

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 4 power ranking: Top of the ratings

Whose TV pilot presentations will land them high-profile time-slots?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8,’ Episode 4 recap: Pilot program

The queens team up for Must-She TV—but will they get a full-season pickup?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Xtra News Flash

Jeopardy! Master Mattea Roach, Montana drag ban, Manitoba city saves queer books, Ontario councillor resigns over flag ban, RIP Tina Turner and all things ‘Barbie’ movie

6 queer and trans stories for your Friday

By Maddy Mahoney

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8,’ Episode 3 power ranking: Let’s get Wild

We get our third new maxi-challenge winner of the season

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8,’ Episode 3 recap: Supermarket, swept

The latest edition of the ball challenge inspires some wonky judging

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ premiere power ranking: Living for the fame

The first two episodes give us a decent understanding of who our frontrunners are

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ Episode 2 recap: Live from the werk room

The second part of the season premiere is an improvement, largely thanks to a very special guest

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8’ premiere recap: Uninformed voting

Enthusiasm for this new season is diminished by the reveal of a baffling format change

By Kevin O’Keeffe

History

British drag has always been radical

In the wake of drag icon Paul O’Grady’s death, it’s time to excavate Britain’s radical drag history

By Jake Hall

Xtra News Flash

Queer Met Gala looks, censured Montana state rep sues, new drag dinner competition, queer youth mental health, Tony Award noms and Twitter oral sex misinformation

6 queer stories we’re watching: May 2

By Bhagyashree Chatterjee, Phoebe Fuller

Comedy

Intergalactic beauty Juno Birch’s advice for mere mortals

“Delusion is the key to confidence,” says the trans drag alien probing North Americans, er, North America this summer

By Russ Martin