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There is more LGBTQ programming on television than ever before. So much so, that it’s easy to forget that just a decade ago, things were very different. Sure, there were already gay characters on TV around the early 2000s. And reality shows like
Survivor had openly gay contestants. But until
RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered in 2009 on a fledgling cable network called LoGo, there wasn’t a truly successful series made by queer creators, starring queer cast members, and made specifically for a queer audience. It’s not an exaggeration to say that
RuPaul’s Drag Race changed