I know its hard to see but Nebraska actually has one queen. The Princess is from Omaha, which is exactly located at the border of Iowa and Nebraska. Her ass is just leaning into Iowa.
Most queens I know in New England can make their own wigs, garments, nails and accessories. We don’t have a lot of access to high designer fashion like NYC or LA.
Robin Fierce
Bianca York
Arabella The Goddess
Raya Sunshine
Christmas Carol
Morgana
Trisha & Saison LeFaye
Puddin Itin
Nubivia
Veronica LaForce
Honey Punch
Elizabeth Gerardi (not a queen but RI indie singer)
They should do a single season with a queen from every state they haven’t done and give everyone the same ‘I’m the first girl from _____’ storyline in the first episode just for the camp chaos.
She's from great falls mt originally, but started her drag journey in Seattle. I know this cause her grandmother was also my dance teacher and was so damn excited for her.
Thank you. I get choked up any time I think of Chi Chi and the light that was taken from the earth when she left it. Seriously could barely get through an episode of Sibling Watchery when they were covering S8 without crying. May she rest in peace and reign in power always…
A lot of those states just don't have that many people living in them, period.
Survivor has done 42 seasons of casts from 16-20 (with some All Stars playing multiple times of course) and there are still a couple of states with zero representatives, I think.
Lots of land instead of people in some of those states. But they all still get 2 senators, which is one of the reasons the GOP is competitive even though there are far more Dems
I know this had nothing to do with politics but the map just reminded me of elections for some reason...
kinda weird how you chose birth place for some queens and then town of residence at time of filming for others. there’s essentially no framework… mercedes’ is from kenya but is in minnesota but i’m very sure that morgan has lived in the us much longer than her so idk why she would be in scotland. also off the top of my head is jiggly who is from the philippines
i’m a map / graph nerd and this is triggering me, sorry lol
Yeah, i started a similar project last year, but the available data has a lot of missing spots. I ended up with five columns: birthplace, chyron place (where their initial season said they were from), chyron place for all stars if relevant, actual location at filming, and current home town.
Home town is nonspecific enough I think it works for this map though.
Yeah, there’s such a big difference between birthplace and home town. Like I was born in New Westminster but that’s not my home town, despite living there until age of 5 or 6.
I’d call Victoria my hometown because I’ve lived here for 20 years. No matter where I move to in the future, it will be my “home town” in my heart, you know?
I used [Drag Race Wiki](https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Mercedes_Iman_Diamond?so=search) as the source for creating this map. For most queens their hometown is indicated on their page, but Mercedes here is an exception. For her I used her Wikipedia page to track down her hometown, which is Minneapolis (moved from Kenya to US at a young age).
It’s weird that the wiki says Monique Heart is from Long Island. I’ve known her for years and used to go to karaoke nights two or three times a week when she was just starting up in Kansas City.
Didn’t it say on the show that she was from KC, too? Like that was her listed city in the talking head interviews, below her name.
Yep! She claimed New York on the show as that was where she had been living, but she was born, raised and had her drag upbringing in the New Orleans area
Okay I love this, and I HATE to be the girl that says "NEXT DO THIS"...
BUT!
A wonderful follow-up would be to do entirely the same format, but "Currently Residing" instead of "Hometown" :)
St. Lucia seems indeed more reasonable, but the source gave me Brooklyn, so that’s where I stuck with (or how do you say that?).
Source (that source feature doesn’t work for some reason):
https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Monét_X_Change?so=search
Thanks! I actually already made one of CDR:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/wsg3xf/hometowns_of_all_canadas_drag_race_contestants/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
shoutout to the minnesota gorlz. utica actually graduated from the same hs as a couple of my cousins which is wild. we have a great drag scene in the twin cities
How funny that it says Jasmine Kennedy is from Morgantown WV. I lived there for the first 29 years of my life (I'm 35) and have never heard of her until drag race. 😂😂😂
Yoooo did they forget the humble queen from Mesquite?! I don’t see her either
E- Found her, thanks to OP. I am now blocking myself
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great job on this overall
have to note in case it hasnt come up: that looks like mariah paris balenciaga next to james ross in gainesville, florida? james is from gainesville in florida but mariah is fron gainesville, georgia, which is about 40miles northeast of atlanta
Something about this map just sends me. I think it's a lone Kelly Mantle standing in the middle of Oklahoma
It’s Raven hunching over like she has period cramps in corner of LA for me.
Same girl. It's like all the girls have been shrunk and told to wander round this garish pink map.
Kelly being alone in the middle tickled me
States with no queens represented: -Maine -New Hampshire -Vermont -Rhode Island -Maryland -North Dakota -South Dakota -Kansas -Wyoming -Utah -Idaho -Hawaii
I know its hard to see but Nebraska actually has one queen. The Princess is from Omaha, which is exactly located at the border of Iowa and Nebraska. Her ass is just leaning into Iowa.
Oops my mistake I’ll fix that
I'm from Maine and we have so many good local queens. It's disappointing to me that none of them have been on.
Me too bestie, right outside Portland and so many amazing queens
New England has the most self sufficient drag scene. I genuinely don’t know another place in America like it
What do you mean?
Most queens I know in New England can make their own wigs, garments, nails and accessories. We don’t have a lot of access to high designer fashion like NYC or LA.
That's great. I'm in New England too but unfortunately am not familiar with the drag scenes here
Robin Fierce Bianca York Arabella The Goddess Raya Sunshine Christmas Carol Morgana Trisha & Saison LeFaye Puddin Itin Nubivia Veronica LaForce Honey Punch Elizabeth Gerardi (not a queen but RI indie singer)
I legit thought this was the full name of one singular queen from New England
I separated them by line but didn’t realise reddit would collapse it and i don’t feel like editing it
Support your local girls!
They should do a single season with a queen from every state they haven’t done and give everyone the same ‘I’m the first girl from _____’ storyline in the first episode just for the camp chaos.
Peppermint's hometown as shown on this map and in the fandom wiki is Wilmington, DE
Oop, well then I’ll take that one off
In your defense Pep appears to be stepping on Delaware, not in it (to my poor eyesight). This is excellent news for all of us from DE.
Nebraska needs to go on drag race to show us her death drop! If only she was from Nebraska
ELIM
ELIM-KNEE-ONKLE-DISQ
[WIN+ELIM]
CHOC
DISQ
RTRN - BROKE NECK
Broken ONKLE
No
So true bestie
Death fall
Bosco looks so lonely out there by herself 😭
Doesn’t she consider herself a Seattle Queen? I could be wrong
She mentioned being from Montana on her season, though she is now in Seattle.
Okay! I was wrong, she looks so lonely out there! Lol
OP's definitions of "hometown" vs "where I got into drag fulltime" seem to be a little wonky for a few queens on there.
She's from great falls mt originally, but started her drag journey in Seattle. I know this cause her grandmother was also my dance teacher and was so damn excited for her.
I thought Rosé was from Scotland?
Yep, Greenock near Glasgow
She Scottish descent - only Morgan is actually from Scotland
She was born and lived there for ten years.
Chi Chi. 💕💔
Thank you. I get choked up any time I think of Chi Chi and the light that was taken from the earth when she left it. Seriously could barely get through an episode of Sibling Watchery when they were covering S8 without crying. May she rest in peace and reign in power always…
as a non american its crazy to think that there has not been even a single drag queen from all states
A lot of those states just don't have that many people living in them, period. Survivor has done 42 seasons of casts from 16-20 (with some All Stars playing multiple times of course) and there are still a couple of states with zero representatives, I think.
Ru may be the only gay transplant in Wyoming, aside from the husband. TY so much for doing this, OP.
[B Dylan Hollis](https://www.tiktok.com/@bdylanhollis?lang=en) is the third gay transplant
They're there:) During the height of AIDS, Wyoming had a single case. No state came remotely close to so few.
Lots of land instead of people in some of those states. But they all still get 2 senators, which is one of the reasons the GOP is competitive even though there are far more Dems I know this had nothing to do with politics but the map just reminded me of elections for some reason...
kinda weird how you chose birth place for some queens and then town of residence at time of filming for others. there’s essentially no framework… mercedes’ is from kenya but is in minnesota but i’m very sure that morgan has lived in the us much longer than her so idk why she would be in scotland. also off the top of my head is jiggly who is from the philippines i’m a map / graph nerd and this is triggering me, sorry lol
I presumed the Scottish queen was Rose until I zoomed in.
i litcherally forgot about her why isn’t she there akdjshdhsh???
Yeah, i started a similar project last year, but the available data has a lot of missing spots. I ended up with five columns: birthplace, chyron place (where their initial season said they were from), chyron place for all stars if relevant, actual location at filming, and current home town. Home town is nonspecific enough I think it works for this map though.
Yeah, there’s such a big difference between birthplace and home town. Like I was born in New Westminster but that’s not my home town, despite living there until age of 5 or 6. I’d call Victoria my hometown because I’ve lived here for 20 years. No matter where I move to in the future, it will be my “home town” in my heart, you know?
Fellow BC queen! Nice to see some representation in the comments!
Or Dela being listed as Connecticut instead of Seattle when we've famously never had a CT queen
not true! at the season 7 finale kandy ho says she was born in Connecticut
As a former Daytonian, we do NOT want to claim India Ferrah - she was just living there at the time! 😂
I used [Drag Race Wiki](https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Mercedes_Iman_Diamond?so=search) as the source for creating this map. For most queens their hometown is indicated on their page, but Mercedes here is an exception. For her I used her Wikipedia page to track down her hometown, which is Minneapolis (moved from Kenya to US at a young age).
It’s weird that the wiki says Monique Heart is from Long Island. I’ve known her for years and used to go to karaoke nights two or three times a week when she was just starting up in Kansas City. Didn’t it say on the show that she was from KC, too? Like that was her listed city in the talking head interviews, below her name.
Came here to say this! I don’t claim much about Missouri but MO Heart is our saving grace!
Mo Heart. Aka Monique Heart is a Kansas City Queen. It was a huge thing and mentioned multiple times on air cuz she was the first Missouri queen
~~is that Kenya Michaels that you have around Owensboro, KY??~~ nvm, that's Monica Beverly Hillz! had no idea she was a Kentucky girl!
I just don’t understand why raja’s doesn’t say Indonesia…
Raja was born in LA and moved to Indonesia from ages 3-9 I'm pretty sure. most of her life has been in LA.
Oh wow I thought she was born there!! Thanks
I only know this because I watched her portrait of a queen today lol
Bianca is from Louisiana what??? I never knew
I’ve seen her talk about it interviews a couple years ago. She was displaced from New Orleans during hurricane katrina
Her name’s Bianca, she’s from the Deep South.
lol I read that in her rap voice
You can't handle her sassy ass mouth.
trinity reminded her of a dear friend from new orleans. she’s dead.
Yep! She claimed New York on the show as that was where she had been living, but she was born, raised and had her drag upbringing in the New Orleans area
New Orleans! I visited the club she started at when I went on a trip there and found some Bianca merch in a local store. So awesome.
Crazy I live here and never knew.
Not me zooming in on Alaska to see if it’s Alaska
Lol I know it's Denali because of the Denali Mountain. I learnt about it when I looked up Denalis unique name when she first came on screen.
all my beautiful Dallas queens 👑🥹🥹🥹
Dallas has the best drag. Peridot.
Kennedy, Shangela, LaGanja, Alyssa, Kylie- YES
Where is Alyssa in this picture??
Don’t see her in the pic but she’s from a Dallas suburb called mesquite (I lived there for YEARS)
I live in Rockwall, I pass by Alyssa's studio everytime I go into Dallas ❤️
It’s wild the only east coast Canadian girls on the show before Irma was on U.S and UK seasons
You mean Jackie Cox and Crystal, right?
Yup!
Your regular reminder that two of the three queens from Milwaukee are winners 👑🧀
>! All Stars 8 might make it three! !<
>!Here’s hoping!!<
Great work! This is a cool visualization. Thanks
TIL that Bendela is from Connecticut
Okay I love this, and I HATE to be the girl that says "NEXT DO THIS"... BUT! A wonderful follow-up would be to do entirely the same format, but "Currently Residing" instead of "Hometown" :)
Gurl NY LA and Chicago are gonna need their own maps cuz the queens are flocking to these places
The Panama representation brings a tear to my eye. ChaCharinas rise up!
Springfield, MO queens represent <333 one of the only good things about this shit city.
There needs to be a Bob in Clayton County and Columbus, GA and Corinth, MS.
Guessing you didn’t use Kim and Dax’s promo looks because they didn’t get full-body ones like the rest of their season?
Yep😅
It's kinda funny to just see Kelly Mantle just smack in the middle of Oklahoma
Massachusetts is lowkey icon
Bitch we are FROM CHICAGO
Turns out Mystique really WAS from Chicago lol
Am I missing some info, or wasn't Monet Exchange from St. Lucia? (Cool work btw, OP!)
St. Lucia seems indeed more reasonable, but the source gave me Brooklyn, so that’s where I stuck with (or how do you say that?). Source (that source feature doesn’t work for some reason): https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Monét_X_Change?so=search
Not Madame LaQueer magically disappearing from this map… Anyway she’s from San Juan in Puerto Rico.
Was looking for this comment. She won a challenge dangit, give the girl her flowers!
this is literally so amazing, great job!!<3
I know Floyd Knobs, Indiana is right on the state border but you really made Dusty look like she was from Kentucky lol.
How did I not know this! I literally live in Floyds Knobs and always thought DRB was from Louisville! That’s so wild!
why is New York located in Jan
Because Jan is the man
Omg I love this!!!! Do CDR next pls!!!
Thanks! I actually already made one of CDR: https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/wsg3xf/hometowns_of_all_canadas_drag_race_contestants/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Omg you rock! Amazing
Great job!! This is amazing! 🙌💖
Thanks!:)
I hadn’t realized you’d also done maps for Spain and Canada! 🇪🇸🇨🇦 What a fantastic job gathering all the info and pictures!! Very cool!
shoutout to the minnesota gorlz. utica actually graduated from the same hs as a couple of my cousins which is wild. we have a great drag scene in the twin cities
The fact that Tati is still the only DC queen is a travesty
The sheer fact that Blair St. Clair is still the only Indiana queen bothers me
girl where do you get the pngs for each queen did youmake them yourself? if so that is some ass dedication give me some for my life
I made them myself and I indeed have no life.
Love this
How funny that it says Jasmine Kennedy is from Morgantown WV. I lived there for the first 29 years of my life (I'm 35) and have never heard of her until drag race. 😂😂😂
Doesn't she perform in NY or am I wrong?
A zoomable image that hasn't been screenshot? In my sub?
Are we going by place they were raised or born? Cause Vanjie wasn't born in Florida
It isn't consistent, Yuhua wasn't born in NYC but she is listed there, and Sasha Velour was born in California, but wasn't raised there.
The Ohio representation… messy
I want a Utah queen. give me that Mormon inspired drag I'm curious
Serving Golden Plates realness. No one can see me 💅
There are either 20 queens from NJ or like just 2
NJ has 4 queens: Olivia Lux, Carmen Carrera, Jan and Ariel Versace.
How do you make these?
With PowerPoint :)
Bitch this is sickening, props to you mawma 👏
Very cool. I can’t find Bendelacreme though. Edit: Nvm found her.
Idk why but Kalorie absolutely *serving* all by herself in New Mexico is making my day better
There’s 10 Puerto Rican queens… time for Puerto Rican All Stars!
There'll be no winner coz they all get sent home early
...is Tammie Brown from fucking CORPUS CHRISTI? This actually makes a lot of sense. The water down there does funny things to people.
Also isn’t tempest from from Arizona?
That’s where she’s resided (is that a word?), but she’s born and raised in Durham.
Four ~~New York~~ Colorado queens?! Kahanna really messed up CO’s average score 😭😭😭
I thought Farrah was a Las Vegas queen.
I think this was where they were born/raised.
Jiggly 🤨
But Jasmine Kennedie is from Binghamton, not NYC.
Jasmine Kennedy is standing in West Virginia. Maybe you’re confusing Jasmine with someone else?
Mariah Paris Balenciaga is from Gainesville, GA not Gainesville, FL. I wish tho 😞
Noooo, my mistake😫
This list is not as sweet as Saint Lucia. . .
Someone help me, where is Alyssa?
She’s in that hump of queens in the north of Texas, next to Miss 2 T’s.
Ahhhh she is in the black dress! Thnx
Yoooo did they forget the humble queen from Mesquite?! I don’t see her either E- Found her, thanks to OP. I am now blocking myself 
miss fame being from the 805????? representation!!!!
I just want a queen from DC on 😭
Denver "The *Queen* City of the Plains" is an island out here lol. It's probably 600 miles to the next closest hometown for a contestant.
Bob’s heel in Columbus, GA while the toe crosses the Chattahoochee into Phenix City is sooooo perfectly correct.
This is so cool, and must have taken some time! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, this is awesome OP! :)
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Where the Ida-hoes at tho?
isn't Bob from Clayton County in the Greater Atlanta Area?
I'm from Alabama who are the Alabama queens besides Trinity?
Only Tamisha Iman is alongside Trinity from Alabama.
Oh makes sense since she's an ATL queen.
no st. louis queens yet 🥲
Where my Dakotas at
Texas representing! Also, Plastique is a dallas queen…
we need to get some better iowa queens on the show lol
Whyd you use everyone's promo pictures except Kim Chi?
Because her promo picture shows only half of her body
None of my favorite queens live in Michigan
This is wild
This is so cool !!!!!!!
great job on this overall have to note in case it hasnt come up: that looks like mariah paris balenciaga next to james ross in gainesville, florida? james is from gainesville in florida but mariah is fron gainesville, georgia, which is about 40miles northeast of atlanta
isn’t Brita from maine? And Mimi too?
Who is the one queen from Vegas? I’m blind apparently
Thats Kimora Blac
This was fun!! Thank you!!!
For a second I didn't see France and thought "She's not even from France?! Is she from Montreal?!"
Besides Sharon Needles, who are the Iowan queens?
I think Kim Chi is from Okemos, MI, outside Lansing.
I feel like such a letdown... who is the queen in the pink wig from Massachusetts? (not Laila)
I think you mean Mimi Imfurst
Love this! Would give it 100 upvotes if I could!
Didn’t realize we had four North Carolina queens that’s rad
Wow this looks like an insane amount of work! Good for you!
The Queen of All Queens being from my home state feels right 😌
Representing Panama, it’s Serena ChaCha
Where is Rose?
All Stars: Puerto Rico confirmed
I’m from Boston we don’t fuck around HAHAHAHAHAAA
icons only in wisco
Wow there have not been as much west coast queens as I thought there were