TV Show: RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/p>\n
Creator<\/p>\n
RuPaul (Rupaul Andre Charles)<\/p>\n
Created for:<\/p>\n
Primarily – at least in the beginning, now it\u2019s more mainstream – for gay men\/drag queens and people interested in\/passionate about drag culture.<\/p>\n
Materials:<\/p>\n
Television (Video, Audio, etc)<\/p>\n
Metaphors:<\/p>\n
Pageant\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Impact:<\/p>\n It caused a lot of cis\/heteronormative people to become more interested in LGBTQ+ communities\/allyship. It also brought drag culture to the mainstream and helped drag earn more respect as an art form\/mode of self expression.<\/p>\n How was this impact created:<\/p>\n The show became very popular because of the personalities of the drag queens and the competition format. Having a beauty pageant also promoted the idea of drag queens as beautiful which shifted the way people viewed the marginalized community.<\/p>\n Did it form a public\/couterpublic:<\/p>\n I think that a counterpublic (drag) became more of a public as a result of the show. The drag community itself remains a counterpublic, but the show has a massive fanbase which brings it more into a public sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TV Show: RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race Creator RuPaul (Rupaul Andre Charles) Created for: Primarily – at least in the beginning, now it\u2019s more mainstream – for gay men\/drag queens and people interested in\/passionate about drag culture. Materials: Television (Video, Audio, etc) Metaphors: Pageant\u00a0 Impact: It caused a lot of cis\/heteronormative people to become more interested in… Read More »Publics and Counterpublics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}