An audience member asked what advice the Queens have for people who live in fear of being their true selves Maddie said that she grew up in a really small town in the country and she really questioned her own identity and Maddie said that she talked about this in multiple
Interviews and it was quote frustrating because they would always purposefully not talk about it in the article but Maddie said that she felt like she was quote living a double life because she had to hide her drag from her family because she was worried that they would
Disown her and she also questioned for a while whether she was actually a transwoman because every resource she found online said that you had to be either gay or trans if you did drag but Maddie realized that gender was quote totally arbitrary and went on a gender
Journey and met other people within the community and she realized that she was a heterosexual man that liked doing drag and luckily her family was surprisingly supportive of her but having a chosen family who support you is just as important
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Love Maddy! Subscribed to her channel, she makes brilliant videos interviewing the queens — I enjoy her deep research on the guests and her complimentary looks of each queen she is interviewing. ❤❤❤
My favourite rudemption story is the fans with maddy. Soooo many drag race fans were sooo against her being on the show but now, she's one of the most loved queens outside of the show…
Every gender or sexuality journey is valid, just because you find you’re cis and straight in the end shouldn’t invalidate all that you went through. It also brought Maddy more of an understanding of the community and what we go through, you couldn’t get a more wonderful ally. She doesn’t just have empathy, she has sympathy!
THAT'S A MAN NOT A WOMAN STAY OUT OF OUR BATHROOMS SPORTS AND NOW OUR PAGEANTS YOU'RE A MAN NOT A WOMAN STAY OUT OF OUR SPACES
Maddy is one of my fav queens every not only because of her journey, but she's so fucking talented too
Maddy was like a fad to me when she started, but now, she is the entire moment!
Maddy went through Questioning and came out with a different answer, that's all. I consider myself agender and I feel her about the arbitrary thing. I don't know why this isn't more known about her, she's talked about it many times.
I remember reading about this last year and it really flipped my opinion of Maddy. I do think that really do drag and go it well you have to be queer but that doesnt mean gay, trans, non-binary, etc. Maddy is straight but bc she's had that gender and sexuality journey then she's also queer and has that understanding of the queer community.
I'm bad with words so sorry if that doesn't make sense but what does make sense is "Maddy for AS10!"
Drag is a beautiful art and everyone can do it. The people who say you can’t do. It is mostly gay men who things drag is one thing, but is for everyone it doesn’t matter your gender. ❤️❤️❤️ and I know they don’t be people not agreeing with me but drag is for everyone
Thank god someone understands that you don’t have to transition if you like to do drag or you are feminine.
She used to sell tgirl D on Craigslist for roses and donations but that's a whole other convo
I feel ya sister –
also shines light on the jokes she makes about people thinking she’s a beer and sports straight guy
Originally! Drag was straight guys portraying women on a stage because of the era, so there
Maddy out here being one of the most iconic queens in youtube. We need her back for All Stars.
We love seeing Maddy getting her flowers 💐
I live for her
I was a concert in Brighton UK where Gotmik was complaining about Maddie being on the show. “It’s not a place for straight men” and someone shouted back “that’s rich coming from someone who was a straight women until 4 years ago” glorious and correct, drag can and should be for anyone who is a performer
You're very hot and cute with drag
The last picture.. her makeup is just whoow
Could really care less about this queen. Dont care about their journey and i dont have to! Win win!
Knowing where the Drag Race fandom started off with Maddy to where she is now??? On Twitter they announced Trixie is hosting Pit Stop again (which LOVE Trixie obvs) but Maddy's tweet about not doing the Pit Stop this season got so many likes, with tons of comments about how we all wanted to see her host. When season 14 first dropped the promo her rise was almost unthinkable, and here she is now. And her platform is all about lifting up queer voices with professional research and vicious reads
I fully think Maddy will win all stars one day
So CrossDresser
That’s a transvestite not a drag queen get it fucking right!
I literally love maddy the way she interviews queens on her show to how she conducts her self in a world who find her drag “confusing “ she’s honestly a icon in the making and can’t wait to see who she inspires next
I can't say this enough
DRAG IS FOR EVERYONEEEEE
I would rather interact with a heterosexual who's gone on the gender journey and become an amazing ally than a gay person who actively harms our community.
She's a king and a queen, we have to stan
puuurrrrrtt
Just like there are trans women that are lesbian, there can be cis het men who enjoy a feminine gender expression to express their creativity and art with. It’s heteronormative to think as a cis het male you cannot partake in femininity. I say this also because I believe gender is a spectrum and Maddy may be somewhere that leans feminine but chooses to not transition because transition is not for everyone.
I love that for her, gender and drag is all just for show and it's great that as a het dude she can express herself in drag
I want to be a drag queen but I’m a woman and I’d only just be eccentric 😒
Kerri almost got another one….
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We are so fucked as a society.
Maddy is a necessary piece of drag culture. Periot
isn't a straight man dressing up as a woman just a transvestite or a cross dresser?
I love her sm
She gonna come gay trans or one of the they them ppl
I never understood why American audiences were so fcking backwards about this. For the last 60 ish years the most famous drag queen in Australia was also a straight man (not one with very good views on everything but thats a seperate issue). So for me to see American fans bitching about Maddy when I knew Dame Edna had existed before any of them were even born was WILD
I would've loved if Maddy said "as a straight man, this question ain't for me. But as a straight Drag Queen, this question is for me"