Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul's Drag Race and the Last Century

<b>A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show <i>RuPaul's Drag Race</i> as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog <i>Tom and Lorenzo</i> <p/>NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick<br>A <i>New York Times</i> New & Noteworthy book<br>One of <i>Logo/NewNowNext</i>'s 11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring</b> <p/>From the singular voices behind <i>Tom and Lorenzo</i> comes the ultimate guide to all-things <i>RuPaul's Drag Race</i> and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture.<i> Legendary Children</i> centers itself around the idea that not only is <i>RuPaul's Drag Race</i> the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, <i>Drag Race</i> became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but also an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work, and reach out to one another--and how they always have--and every bit of it is tied directly to <i>Drag Race</i>. Each chapter is an examination of a specific aspect of the show--the Werk Room, the Library, the Pit Crew, the runway, the Untucked lounge, the Snatch Game--that ties to a specific aspect of queer cultural history and/or the work of certain legendary figures in queer cultural his