Recommendation: Don’t say anything shady about drag queens unless you are willing to fight tooth and nail. They will descend en masse with more corrections than a New Yorker copy editor reading “teenager” instead of “teen-ager.” After RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 lost the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program to The Traitors, Hollywood Reporter journalist Chris Gardner tweeted “the team from Drag Race (including all the queens) cleared out and headed to the lobby.” Well, check the footage: This is an objectively correct statement. But it is also a subjectively shady one, and the queens let him know. One by one, seven different queens from the most recent season of Drag Race replied, and nobody should be surprised that they were all the messiest (complimentary) girls in the cast: Morphine Love Dion, Amanda Tori Meating, Xunami Muse, Plane Jane, Dawn, Megami, and Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige.
bitch we just LOST this isn’t a
— MORPHINE ???? (@morphinelovemua) September 16, 2024
pageant let a bitch untuck and get her tequila the fuck?? https://t.co/Z1mZTAZpIb
Fresh off an Emmy loss, they complained Gardner made it seem like they were leaving the Emmys altogether, rather than just getting a drink during a commercial break after losing an award. “all we did was go get a cocktail during a commercial break like a lot of others do,” Xunami wrote. “Mind you all of production and the cast stayed till the end, to support the academy.” Dawn was a bit more concise, simply writing: “Girl it’s not that serious I had to piss.”
It was a commercial break are we allowed to go piss girl ????
— Amanda Tori Meating (@AmandaTori69) September 16, 2024
There was even a community note added to Gardner’s tweet that didn’t necessarily run contrary to his report but did add the context, “It was a commercial break.” Perhaps the more damning tweet came from Mhi’ya, who gave the only true fact check of the night, noting that not “all the queens” left: She and Geneva stayed! Now there’s a difference. Gardner later tweeted twice that the queens had returned. What, can’t a queen just get a drink around here after her season (not her, Robin) loses an Emmy?
You know, it’s so interesting for me to experience these sort of situations where people, for the purpose of creating discourse online, which seems like a form of currency in this new age, will log in to create a scenario that satisfies their fantasy. Cuz all we did was go get a… https://t.co/wGvIwVkBhq
— Xunami “ijbol queen” Muse (@XunamiMuse) September 16, 2024
It was a commercial break and the girls wanted a drink. We all stayed until the end of the ceremony. Take your pseudo journalism elsewhere
— Plane Jane (@the_planejane) September 16, 2024
Babe, this was on the commercial brake 10 minutes after the award??? Why are you trying to stir controversy?
— Dawn ???? (@upuntil_dawn) September 16, 2024
Girl it’s not that serious I had to piss https://t.co/Tm8KdtmX9z
— Dawn ???? (@upuntil_dawn) September 16, 2024
Leaving out the context that it was a commercial break and we went to get drinks in the lobby, but were there the entire night… So…
— Megami thee Stallion™️ (@MegamiNYC) September 16, 2024
That’s a lie! It was a commercial break and i myself stayed in my seat and also Geneva!
— Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige (Queen Of Flipss) (@QueenOfFlipss) September 16, 2024
Here’s your proof! pic.twitter.com/FpXLN2UG86
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