‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ spoilers find that fans of the show have been waiting 8 long months for the 14th season to arrive and already controversy reigns as audiences are divided over one specific contestant. While many have cried “Shantay, you stay” to Maddy Morphosis, the first straight, cisgendered male contestant to compete on the show, many more have decided she should “Sashay away” as she does not belong on the show.
Like it or not, however, Maddy will be a part of the 14th season as filming was completed in mid-2021, even though the season will not air until January 7, 2022.
So, why is Maddy, who uses the pronouns she/her when in drag, causing so much furor in the world’s most open and accepting community?
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Spoilers: Audience Divided As Season 14 Premieres Next Week With First Straight, Cis Male Contestant
Some have shown bitter disappointment in Ru’s decision to cast Maddy, saying that having a straight, cisgender male competing on the show is a massive blow to the queer community. They believe other identities within the LGBTQIA+ sector, such as trans queens, drag kings or differently abled bodied queens should have been given representation first.
“It’s weird for me as a bi person to know that cis straightness is probably going to be talked about meaningfully on the show before bisexuality/pansexuality,” wrote one commenter on a Reddit thread devoted to the controversial casting.
However, Maddy’s casting doesn’t make her the first queen on the Race to date women. Drag Race UK series one star, Scaredy Kat had a girlfriend, who would also perform as a drag queen with the name Pussy Kat. Pussy Kat is not alone in being an AFAB (assigned female at birth) queen. Victoria Scone is the first contestant on a Drag Race franchise (alsio U.K.) to be a cisgender woman.
However, both Scaredy and Victoria are members of the LGBTQIA+, with Scaredy not comfortable to accept the label of pan or bisexual but did say he could be attracted to anyone, and Victoria identifying as a lesbian.
Maddy, known as “Arkansas’s Most Overrated Drag Queen” does, however, have fans who say featuring her on RuPaul’s Drag Race could potentially open up some viewers’ minds up about gender and masculinity as a whole.
Maddy, herself, took to Instagram after hearing the backlash to her casting to say, ‘I’m just a drag queen who happens to be straight.’
She added: ‘I’m not here to show the world that “straight guys can do drag.” For anyone saying that I’m representing an underrepresented group, I appreciate you, but straight men are not a persecuted and excluded group within the drag community.’
The lengthy post concluded with Maddy expressing her intentions, “If there’s a message that I hope to convey to people, it’s that you don’t have [to] inhabit the box society puts you in just to be comfortable in your own sexuality. I think one of the best things to come out of my casting is that it’s kicking up a lot more talk-about representation in the drag scene. And I hope that it helps lead to more marginalized groups being showcased and represented.”
We can all see how Maddy does and how she is accepted by her fellow queens when RuPaul’s Drag Race returns to VH1 on January 7 at 8pm ET
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