Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to datea brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance.A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.Central to RuPauls success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the worlds largest television franchises, RuPauls ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul.Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breath taking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.Here in RuPauls singular and extraordinary story is a manual for livinga personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.If were all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare. From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to datea brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780008614942

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The House of Hidden Meanings: The highly-anticipated memoir from the international drag superstar and pop culture icon

RuPaul

Published by Fourth Estate (2024)

ISBN 10: 0008614946 ISBN 13: 9780008614942

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