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Bianca Del Rio. Bob the Drag Queen. Sasha Velour. NYC drag queens have always had an outsized influence on RuPaul's Drag Race, which seems to expand with every season (three queens of season nine's top five are locals). The reason our divas work so well on the Olympics of Drag is because NYC is already its own drag race—you have to be at the top of your game if you want to work seven nights a week among contemporary icons like Horrorchata, Marti Gould Cummings and Untitled Queen.
So it's pretty much guaranteed that the competition will be tight at Lady Liberty: Snatch Game on Friday, February 16. The popular drag pageant goes full-celeb for this edition, and competitors face off for the chance at $500 courtesy of This Free Life and $500 to Dermablend. Shade: Queens of NYC star and Time Out favorite Brita Filter co-hosts with last season's Lady Liberty (and recent performer on The Voice) Rosé. Between the two of them, there's enough Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Idina Menzel and Moana impressions to keep the night going for hours. Here's the lineup so far:
Ari Kiki as Selena
Jackie Cox as Fran Drescher
Christopher Palu as Liza Minelli
Poppy as Joan of Arc
Zarria as Tiffany Haddish
Lemon as Paris Hilton
Miz. Diamond Wigfall as Britney Spears
Cory as Tilda Swinton
Chola Spears as Janis Joplin
Lady Liberty: Snatch Game is at Ace Hotel's Liberty Hall on Friday, February 16 at 9pm, with a $5 cover.
And can we please get a halfway-decent Nancy Grace impression already?
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