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This afternoon my loyal photographer Dr. Jeff and I attended a press event for tonight’s finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where the contestants posed for photos and sat down for brief one-on-one chats. Check this post shortly for many more photos and some video shoutouts. In the meantime, stay out of the comments if you’re not watching tonight’s show. VIDEO: …

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen last night’s news show themed episode. Otherwise jump in and dish the challenge and the elimination.

Following up on the wildly successful second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race comes a new reality series from Ms. Charles in which the first series’ contestants makeover bio-women as drag queens.

Here’s the finished video whose making was the subject of the last challenge on the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The winner was already revealed by commenters on Monday’s shout-out post, but dig in here and dish the final challenge, the reunion show catfight, and Tyra’s oh-so-dramatic collapse. Photo via Rich Juzwiak’s illuminating behind the scenes story from the reunion.

Late this afternoon, JMG staff photographer Dr. Jeff and I attended a press conference for the contestants of season two of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where the above five queens sent their love to the readers of this here website thingy. The finale is tonight. I know who won! I think! SLIDESHOW: Here’s Dr. Jeff’s great photos from the event. Some …

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen Monday’s episode. Otherwise, let’s dish this week’s challenge and rather satisfying elimination.

The Big Gay Sketch Show nails it in this skewering of RuPaul’s Drag Race. (Via – AfterElton)

“There has been so much controversy sometimes about what I’ve said or done because I believe there are no mistakes because God is the only one who can judge us. That’s the reason I deleted my Twitter account because I said on there that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other, and …

Three white elementary teachers in Los Angeles have been suspended for handing out photos of RuPaul, OJ Simpson, and Dennis Rodman as joking examples of black heroes for the children to carry during a parade marking Black History Month. A district spokeswoman said the teachers at Wadsworth Elementary School, where the majority of the students are Latino, could have made …

Season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race debuts tonight on Logo at 9pm. We all got a little too wrapped up in last season, with some of you screaming bloody murder when we discussed the eliminations before you got around to watching your damn ass DVR. (I’ll admit that I screamed a little when I ran into Nina Flowers on the …

RuPaul is promoting the second season of her hit LOGO series Rupaul’s Drag Race with a dig at Sarah Palin. If you recall, I got ridiculously engrossed in last season’s show – to the point where I actually squealed a little bit when I met the out-of-drag Nina Flowers on the dance floor at the Black Party. Season two begins …

Spoiler alert: If you didn’t watch it last night, the winner is revealed in this clip.

I haven’t blogged about it because it’s so NSFW, but there’s huge fad sweeping Japan in which videos featuring gay porn star Billy Herrington are mashed-up over racing techno beats, with little baby heads popping up over the actors’ naughty bits. Japan is weird, y’all. (Check out my pal Brian O’Brian’s way NSFW post on this phenomenon over at Fleshbot.) …

Yesterday an old friend reminded me about 1989’s Pickle Surprise, which is Wigstock:The Movie director Tom Rubnitz’ strange bit of absurdity starring Lady Bunny and RuPaul. I remember Rubnitz’ equally strange Strawberry Shortcut being a favorite at Fort Lauderdale’s Cathode Ray video bar. Rubnitz died of AIDS in the early 90’s. NOTE: For those that don’t know, here’s how Urban …

I didn’t do a recap of RuPaul’s Drag Race last week after Ongina’s very untimely departure. And while last night’s hour-long Absolut infomercial was certainly tedious in portions, there were a few highlights – most notably Charo’s terrible “Spooning leads to forking” joke. No spoilers in this clip. Y’all know who went home.

The NYT City Room blog reports that RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Ongina has hand-delivered a $25,000 donation from the MAC Cosmetics AIDS Fund to NYC’s Hetrick-Martin High school, which serves LGBT students who’ve had difficulty in regular public schools. The school is noted for being a space where students do not have to conform, where girls can declare their orientation …

JMG reader Wayne sends us his video mash-up of NYC’s recent Prop 8 protests with a RuPaul track from the upcoming album Champion. According to RuPaul, Let’s Turn The Night was written during the Prop 8 protests in West Hollywood. UPDATE: Eric Leven points out that there’s a shot of me at the 1:30 mark. I’m in a brown jacket.

Judging by buzz around the blogosphere, LOGO seems to have its first bona fide hit in RuPaul’s Drag Race. This clip, which is also an elimination spoiler, shows Ongina’s tearful revelation of her two years living with HIV, something her family did not previously know about.

Since I got yelled at for doing so last week, I won’t give away who got booted on last night’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, but let’s just say it was the one I most wanted to go. Last night’s challenge was for the contestants to “channel their inner Oprah” and play talk show hostess, but what it mostly seemed to reveal …