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The announcement of the cast for Ru Paul's Drag Race Season 9...

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RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition which documents RuPaul and his search for America's biggest Drag superstar. The competition employs a panel of judges of famous guest faces to critic the contestants on different tasks throughout the show. RuPaul's Drag race has spanned 8 seasons, with a 9th just announced. The show's popularity soared and now holds the title of most viewed programme on Logo-TV  and is now aired worldwide. The show embraces diversity and openly welcomes and celebrates the LGBT community with a great platform for some of the most fabulous Drag Queens that give the Lady Boys of Bangkok a run for their money! Previous winners are as follows: Bebe Zahara Benet - Season 1 Tyra Sanchez - Season 2 Raja - Season 3 Sharon Needles - Season 4 Jinkx Monsoon - Season 5 Bianca Del Rio - Season 6 Violet Chachki - Season 7 Bob the Drag Queen - Season 8 You can really se...

From Liza to Ladyboys….The Origins of Cabaret

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From Liza to Lady Boys….The Origins of Cabaret The sights, the sounds, the girls, it’s hard not to get wrapped up in the infectious atmosphere of a blazing hot cabaret performance, the place where audience and show meet in the middle to create an intimate, one of a kind experience. Cabaret shows may give off an air of contemporary culture, such risqué and seductive performances couldn’t have been popular in the past, when lips were stiffly locked in an upright position. Well cabaret is in fact an art form steeped in history, evolving and changing throughout the last century to culminate in the Lady Boys of Bangkok show you know and love.Etymologically speaking the word cabaret’s first recorded use was in 1655, likely derived from the Middle Dutch word for tavern ‘cambret’, this is because cabaret actually refers to the performance venue such as a restaurant, night clu b….or the one and only Sabai Pavilion.     The word in...