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Originally posted by 2014
Guys I have a question. And please don't think I am being ignorant.
Simply wondering how is Michelle part of the LGBT community? I know she judged a drag queen show, but she has kids so ...
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Here is the T with Michelle's involvement with the LGBT community.
She has been a massive advocate supporting various causes every since she got any money and clout in her media accounts, if you manage to listen to her old radio shows from years before she ever was on drag race supporting and updating on the status of LGBT rights has been a topic she pushed for years before she found her way back to any tv screen.
She also supported LGBT media culture and artists on those shows, like she even mentioned she had Perez on when he first started out.
Since her early 20s she was involved with the ball circuit in new york as a vogue-r. The ball circuit is the deep deeep gay underground and is where voguing originates. She was even coached on how to vogue by the Ninja drag house who to this day are known as the best vogue-rs in the world. She was one of the first biological women involved with the ball community in New York and an active part of it. This women fought, marched and slept on the streets back when gays couldn't get a job or benefits simply because they were not straight.
She credits drag queens and the LGBT community of making her the woman that she is today and giving her an outlet out of depression.
Out of all the house she's also the only one who already donated her fee to an LGBT charity and vouched that her possible winnings would go to LGBT youth charities as well.
This is just me skimming. The amount of things she's done to benefit the LGBT community is astronomical, so seeing anyone say that they don't 'buy it' really pisses me (and I'm not saying you just a few twats on twitter). Some people don't get that her links to the LGBT community run deeper than simply being 'Rupaul's friend and judge on a panel'.
When she said that the community is her family and runs in her veins, she wasn't being flippant, which is also why her breakdown over Perez's antics in the garden really struck me so hard that I started tearing up. She has literally known people who died because they were vilified by the public for just being gay, so being Perez seek out this vilification for attention and then having someone like Nadia saying 'he's just being a typical flamboyant gay' must be beyond crushing to her.