Performer appeared in closing ceremony of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a mainstay of city’s drag scene Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Maxi Shield, 51, was one of the most famous faces in the city’s night-life, and rose to global fame after competing on season one of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, which aired in 2021. The Sydney star ...

If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. The season’s 8th episode will be entitled “Snatch Game Of Love: Island Edition,” and that means the Snatch Game is ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 26: Drag Icon Maxi Shield poses against the cycle way construction site (along Mardi Gras parade route on Oxford st) on February 26, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney ...

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under star Maxi Shield has died at age 51 of an undisclosed cause. Vanity, a friend of Shield’s, announced the star’s death via Instagram, saying, “We are all mourning the loss ...

Maxi Shield, a Sydney-based star of Australia’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, died over the weekend six months after announcing a throat cancer diagnosis. She was 51. Shield, who offstage also used ...

Season 18 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is deep in the competition, and episode 10 promises the kind of curveball Drag Race fans live for. We’ll see a third design challenge with a supermodel icon on the ...

Australian drag performer Maxi Shield has died at 51 years old after a battle with cancer. She had been undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy since August of last year. Shield was a veteran of the ...

The Haus of Misdemeanor is speaking about the importance of celebrating who they are: Black, gay, drag queens. This is the message they are spreading to everyone. This group says that for them, it's ...

Go behind the scenes of the fierce competition series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in a new episode of “Untucked: RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Season 18, Episode 8, airing on Friday, Feb. 20 at 9:30 p.m. ET on MTV, ...

Competition reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” puts a group of performers through what the series has dubbed “The Olympics of Drag.” Weekly episodes feature challenges ranging from comedy and acting to ...