Spring 2024 Cover Story: Canada’s Reigning Queens
Story and interviews by Christopher Turner
Photographer: Fernando Cysneiros
Since RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered back on February 2, 2009, drag artists from all seasons of the show and its many spinoffs have become superstars on the global circuit. Drag Race was a game changer, and its alumni now tour the globe, dominate social media, walk international fashion runways, play major concerts and festivals, and have become a very real part of our lives. Canada’s Drag Race is no different.
What better way to celebrate than with a little photo shoot. For the first time, all of Canada’s reigning queens, plus Brooke Lynn Hytes, Canada’s Drag Race’s most iconic host, were gathered together in mid-February in Toronto for one epic photo shoot and Q&A. Read on to see the pics and hear what each of the queens had to say on secrets from their season, returning to the Drag Race world to compete again, role models, the best advice they’ve ever received, what drag means to them, what they would be doing if they weren’t in drag, and much more.
