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June 29, 2018
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“It’s just two people having a conversation about something they feel very strongly about.â€
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June 29, 2018
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June 29, 2018
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June 28, 2018
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An up-and-down season comes to a satisfying conclusion (except for some butterflies).
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June 28, 2018
The 100 Greatest
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June 21, 2018
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This season’s reunion show takes a surprisingly emotional turn.
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June 14, 2018
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We size up the finalists ahead of the big finale, trying to figure out who’s likely to prevail.
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June 7, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: Gemini Season
The competition is whittled down to just four queens.
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May 29, 2018
Here Are 11 Minutes of Unfiltered Tracy Morgan
Enjoy.
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May 24, 2018
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Recap: Swipe Up for Glamour
We’re down to a remarkably great top five.
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May 17, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: These Violent Delights Have Gaggy Ends
The queens go
Westworld.
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May 10, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
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In a Cher-themed episode, the girls make the leap from lip-syncing to singing live.
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May 4, 2018
Monique Heart Talks Success on
Drag Race
: “You Need Money!â€
“You have to look like you belong there and you fit the part.â€
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May 3, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: You Can Take My Snatch
We’ve got ourselves a tough episode to swim through, mermaid-style.
May 3, 2018
Every Snatch Game Impersonation on
RuPaul’s Drag Race
, Ranked
Of all the Snatch Game performances throughout
Drag Race
herstory, which one is the very best?
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Apr. 26, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: Pros and Drag Cons
All hail these merch-peddling artistic geniuses.
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Apr. 19, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
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Miz Cracker is surely the front-runner now, no?
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Apr. 12, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: Pale Blue Ball
To infinity and beyond, queens!
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Apr. 11, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Season-Finale Recap: Hangar In There
A bizarre, convoluted, and self-congratulatory finale.
overnights
Apr. 5, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Recap: Fun, Friends, Maybe More
You really need to watch
Untucked
this week, too.
overnights
Apr. 3, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Too Sexy for Shampoo
This is the
Citizen Kane
of reality-TV villain edits.
Mar. 30, 2018
Kacey Musgraves Is a Gay Icon and the World Needs to Know
A journey through her queer discography.
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Mar. 29, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
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The Vixen is here to mix it up with dramatics, honey.
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Mar. 27, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
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This is one of cycle 24’s better episodes, but there’s still plenty of tomfoolery.
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Mar. 22, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Season Premiere Recap: Dime-store Girls
Let’s meet our fresh-faced queens, shall we?
Mar. 21, 2018
Love, Simon
? Don’t
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: A Debate on the Little Gay Movie That Could
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang weigh in on the Queer Twitter Drama surrounding the queer romantic comedy-drama.
overnights
Mar. 20, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Undercover B*tch
Never underestimate
Top Model
in doing wrong by its contestants.
chat room
Mar. 16, 2018
Drag Race All Stars 3
Champion Trixie Mattel on a Once-in-a-Lifetime Moment
“All last night I was saying on a loop, ‘I can’t believe that just happened.’â€
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Mar. 15, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Season-Finale Recap: You’re a Winner, Baby
Is it Shangela, Kennedy, Trixie, or BeBe Zahara Benet?
overnights
Mar. 14, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Babes Who Book
Who image architects the image architects?
overnights
Mar. 8, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Recap: Screen Actor Children
Will the Hall of Fame inductee be Bebe Zahara Benet, Shangela, Trixie Mattel, or Kennedy Davenport?
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Mar. 6, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
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Mar. 1, 2018
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Can a reality show about drag queens jump the shark?
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Feb. 27, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Crop It All Out
Tyra gives the models a crash course on proper selfie-taking.
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Feb. 22, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Recap: Survival Art
We’ve officially reached that fussy stage of getting granular with our remaining queens.
Feb. 21, 2018
Queer Eye on
Queer Eye
: The Case For and Against Antoni Porowski
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang weigh in on the single issue threatening to destroy the queer community.
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Feb. 21, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Tyrannized
Even for reality TV, this is a manipulated farce.
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Feb. 15, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Recap: Circle Loses the Square
BenDeLaCreme just delivered one of the best Snatch Game turns
Drag Race
has ever seen.
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Feb. 13, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Drag Her
In
ANTM
, “queer pride†means “wearing outré bottom lashes as confetti explodes in your face.â€
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Feb. 8, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Recap: Ho Thyself
Kennedy has emerged as a Queen for All People.
overnights
Feb. 6, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Stacked Competition
Don’t these girls know that teeth and beauty don’t mix?
overnights
Feb. 1, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Recap: Diva Behavior
No other TV show can give you such bursts of queer joy.
overnights
Jan. 30, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Scared, But (Not) Fierce
This episode is incredibly tough to watch, for all the wrong reasons.
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Jan. 25, 2018
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
Season-Premiere Recap: The Hookers Are Here
We’re happy to report that
All Stars 3
has us gagged.
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Jan. 23, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: But Make It Trademark
It’s makeover time!
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Jan. 17, 2018
America’s Next Top Model
Recap: Call Me Mother
Is Jeana already the front-runner for cycle 24?
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America’s Next Top Model
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Thank goodness Tyra is back.