Update: Don’t sashay away! The BBC’s decision to cancel Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is sickening in all the wrong ways

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The hyper-flamboyant and hilariously filthy show is an inclusive, celebratory platform for queer culture. The report also notes that The broadcaster’s choice to nix it is giving stupidity The BBC is canning RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – a decision that, in my household, is expected to bring the number of regularly watched programmes on the Beeb down from one to zero. It’s a decision that is expected to no doubt please enemies of LGBTQ+ culture, but otherwise seems inexplicable. For a start, Drag Race UK regularly pulls in 1 million viewers a week, which hardly seems like a show in its death throes (even if this is down from a previous high of 1.5 million). RuPaul’s Drag Race is also a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Since the US version started in 2009, it has brought tons of performers to national, or even global, attention who would otherwise still be plying their trade in provincial gay bars. Jinkx Monsoon from the US is now starring in Oh Mary! in London’s West End; the UK’s La Voix made it on to Strictly; and Bimini Bon-Boulash, who “stepped their pussy up” to astonishing effect in season two, has made records, modelled and written a book.

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