RuPaul:Doesn’t Think He’s a Gay Icon

Monday January 24, 2011

ACTOR, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter RuPaul doesn’t consider himself a gay icon.

The star of RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag U says it’s none of his business how people perceive him.

“That’s for someone else to consider me that. I consider myself someone who enjoys life,” he said.

“I love to laugh. I love to dance. It’s my job to know I have a choice in the matter of how I see things. Whether I see the glass half full or half empty. That’s where my part comes in. As an icon? I probably am. That’s none of my business. What other people think of me is none of my business.

“I love that people enjoy what I do. That is such a blessing. I am such a fortunate fortunate person and I’m so grateful for all the gifts I’ve been given.

“I love that if people can get off on what I’m doing and it enriches their live, then right on, but that is not the impetus for why I do it. I do it because I love colors and laughter and dancing, music and creating things. And I would do that if people dug it or not. In fact, I became famous in 1993 but I had been doing this stuff for eleven years before that happened, and had I not gotten famous, I’d still do it because I love it.”

RuPaul, 50, also denied reports that he suffered a heart attack.

“They got it a little bit wrong. I didn’t have a heart attack. I actually had a fart attack,” he said.

“I had a strawberry Yoo-Hoo and a chili cheese dog and it just blew my mind, and everyone else’s too.

“No, I didn’t have a heart attack.”

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