Miami Is Burning: Local Drag Queen Wins Spot on RuPaul's Drag Race

Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to...

By Kyle Munzenrieder

July 28, 2009

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Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race.

She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to take the 12th spot on the show. On the show, the girls compete by lip-synching, dancing, wearing fancy costumes, snatching trophies -- y'know, drag queen stuff -- and in the end, one is crowned queen of the queens.

"While RuPaul's Drag Race took a look at the outrageous world of drag, it also revealed the courage, perseverance, and humanity of nine men who have overcome and endured the hardships of a masculine-dominated society that mocks and makes fun of men who act like women," says the news release. The second season is set to debut early next year.

Anyway, above is Ms. Wild doing her best Britney Spears to "Circus."

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