Watch RuPaul fronting an underground punk band in 1983

This video is from July 1984 when I was 23 years old and had just moved to New York City. When I watch it, it weirds me out because of the naïveté and the folly of youth, not to mention the arrogance of youth that I express here. Yes, I did eventually “take off like a stick of dynamite,” but so much happened between then and when things finally happened for me. I wish I could shake this kid and say, “honey, you shouldn’t be so arrogant” because ultimately, the city spit me out by December 1984 a

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