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The House of Hidden Meanings
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'The awareness didn’t take long. It came on strong and clear and loud, almost instantaneously. This was where I belonged. When you hear your story told through someone else’s mouth, you know you’ve arrived at the right place.
This was where I belonged.
It felt like a fantastical trick had been played on me. Georges was the one in rehab. And yet I was also hitting rock bottom.
I had walked right into the house of hidden meanings.
I took a seat.'
An extra star for Mean Mother Charles.
This was where I belonged.
It felt like a fantastical trick had been played on me. Georges was the one in rehab. And yet I was also hitting rock bottom.
I had walked right into the house of hidden meanings.
I took a seat.'
An extra star for Mean Mother Charles.
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Reading Progress
October 20, 2023
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October 20, 2023
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March 7, 2024
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March 7, 2024
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11.0%
"“Libra represents the twelfth house of Scorpio’s hidden meanings,� he told me, as if this were hugely important. After the drugs wore off, I realized it was nonsense. But it was beautiful nonsense, and it stayed with me forever, maybe because I liked the way it sounded—the house of hidden meanings."
March 7, 2024
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15.0%
"I remember her watching Jacqueline Onassis with absolute wonder and amazement; she must have been thinking That is one bad bitch. She had overcome the most horrific thing imaginable—holding her husband’s brains in her hands—only to bounce back, marry a billionaire, and keep on living her life."
March 7, 2024
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22.0%
"I smoked some weed sprinkled with angel dust—which wasn’t hard to come by in those days—out in the canyon, then staggered home. But I couldn’t make it past the retaining wall in our front yard to actually enter the house; instead, I started doing somersaults off the wall onto the sidewalk. She came outside, looking at me suspiciously.
“What’s wrong with you?� she said.
“I’m just happy,� I told her."
“What’s wrong with you?� she said.
“I’m just happy,� I told her."
March 8, 2024
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39.0%
"Later, I would find out that I didn’t have as much in common with other gay people as I assumed I would. The only thing we really had in common was that we preferred dick. My tribe was bohemian people, some of whom were gay and others of whom were not. The point was, we had an ideological alignment that superseded our sexuality."
March 8, 2024
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40.0%
"I had grown up watching Monty Python, which I loved because of their willingness to poke fun at gender, politics, and religion—everything that was sacred in the American consciousness."
March 8, 2024
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42.0%
"'How do you put into words the way it feels to find your people, to belong, to finally be understood, to know the connective tissue that binds you invisibly to others?'
Can I get an amen in here!?"
Can I get an amen in here!?"
March 10, 2024
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47.0%
"I always felt both male and female. Counterintuitively, I felt more masculine in drag than I did out of drag, because I knew that I could command more power that way—power being a currency that was typically conferred to men. As a feminine Black man, in violation of society’s norms by virtue of just existing, drag was a way to reclaim the power I had always been denied."
March 13, 2024
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51.0%
"The story in my family went like this: When my mother was pregnant with me, she went to see a psychic, who told her that the baby she was carrying was a boy and that he was bound to be famous. With that in mind, she gave me the name RuPaul because, as she put it, “Ain’t another motherfucker alive with a name like that.�"
March 13, 2024
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54.0%
"“We’re dating,� Floyd said. I looked at them in surprise. “You two?� They nodded confidently. I suspected that they’d fooled around the night before and had decided to extend their goodwill tour by paying me a visit. The relationship would last no longer than a week. But it cemented my friendship with Jon, who would come to assume a more formal name: Bunny Hickory Dickory Dock, or Lady Bunny for short."
March 13, 2024
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55.0%
"'I put Bunny herself into drag for the first time at the 688 Club, for a Boy George costume contest that she ended up winning. In drag, she looked a little bit like Dusty Springfield, who she idolized from her years living in the UK.'
OMG. I can't stop quoting this book, which shows such a different side of RuPaul. (Raunchy as fuck, btw). Mama Ru has the t-shirt. We wear it with pride."
OMG. I can't stop quoting this book, which shows such a different side of RuPaul. (Raunchy as fuck, btw). Mama Ru has the t-shirt. We wear it with pride."
March 14, 2024
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61.0%
"Back then, I would shoot with a crumpled-up cigarette wrapper over the lens, to smooth out everyone’s edges and give the film a particularly gauzy look."
March 15, 2024
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74.0%
"My body was built for drag. My proportions were just right for it: long, long legs and a tiny waist that I didn’t have to cinch. I didn’t need to wear stockings. I’d put on a bra, or even just a pair of rolled-up socks in a bra, and call it fashion. I’d wear short skirts or tube dresses that I could whip up on a sewing machine, do big Donna Summer hair, big lined lips, huge eyelashes, and trashy earrings."
March 15, 2024
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81.0%
"But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I’d done to make it all work. I’d mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney’s family-friendliness."
March 15, 2024
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90.0%
"As far back as I could remember, my mother had said she wanted to be cremated. “Or better yet,� she said, “leave my body on the curb, and let the city bury me. I’ve paid enough fucking taxes.�"
March 15, 2024
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March 15, 2024
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March 15, 2024
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non-fiction
March 15, 2024
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gay-interest
March 15, 2024
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I have this here. I'm excited to read it.
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