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Over 25 years after “Supermodel,” RuPaul is Vanity Fair's cover girl ...

From the article, Ru refused to address the trans flap that has marred his career in recent years:

Yeah, I don’t want to talk about that. It’s a lose-lose situation. There’s not one thing I can say that will make people feel better about it. I know what I am. I come from a place of love. I’m not here to make people feel bad.

He also talks about his new series, AJ and the Queen:

This show isn’t about a drag queen in a kids show. This is about a kid in a drag queen’s show. It’s edgy, and it has some dark themes in there. It was something I was eager to explore. To prove to myself that I’m not dead inside. I proved to myself that I could pull those emotions up. It’s intoxicating.

More here.