The drag queen and powerhouse entertainer shares a first look at the cover of his memoir, “The House of Hidden Meanings.”
from a kid knocking about the streets of 1970s San Diego to the most famous drag queen in the world has been much mythologized. Not least by RuPaul himself: Just listen to the spoken-word intro to his 1992 breakout hit “story of how RuPaul became RuPaul? That’s one that the 12-time Emmy Award-winning entertainer has kept deliberately close to his chest over his decades in the spotlight.
What may initially surprise readers is the fact that the book focuses entirely on the first 40 years of his life, ending well before the worldwide phenomenon ofbegan. But equally surprising is its raw, introspective tone. A chapter covering his late teens dabbling in hard drugs and losing his virginity is striking not for the candor with which he describes what happened, but simply for his remarkable way with words—as a writer, his sparse, elegant prose makes it all the more powerful.
Yet it’s also—very much intentionally—leavened with the wisdom RuPaul now has, looking back on the unruly years of his young adulthood. “The book is calledtells you what’s going on, and I wanted it to look back on the past and uncover the hidden meaning behind each event,” he says.
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