Attention ladies who might be thinking of throwing their next bachelorette party at your local gay club or bar: RuPaul has an important message for you.

In a new interview with DinnerPartyDownload, a listener asked RuPaul, “What are your thoughts on bachelorette party etiquette at drag shows/gay bars?”

Mama Ru said, “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

You know, this is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them. So I’m a brown-skinned gay man. You know, I do drag. Early on, I learned that I could do it well and make money. So people automatically ask me about beauty tips. And I get kids who write me and say, “I wish you could do my makeup for my prom?” Or, “I wish you could do my makeup for my wedding?” I’m like, “Bitch, I’m not a makeup artist. I’m an enter-taint-er! OK?” But people don’t know how to place me in their consciousness. They think “Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That’s what gay guys are, right? You’re an accessory for my straight life.” Just because your limited view is that everyone’s there to serve you and that you’re the only person in the world. It doesn’t work that way.

“But on the one hand, a bachelorette party going to a gay bar, in a way, could expand their consciousness,” responded co-interviewer, Brendan Francis Newnam.

RuPaul replied:



But if they’re going as a group of girls, traditionally — not always, but traditionally — they’re going as a group of girls as a way of saying “Oh, let’s go together, let’s go together!” So that they don’t really have to go outside of their wheelhouse. They’re tourists. It’s not really saying, “You’re fierce, and I’m going to respect you, you queen, for who you are.” It’s like they’re there as a party clown.

“How do you think they should express their appreciation in a more respectful way do you think?” asked interviewer, Rico Gagliano.

To which RuPaul replied, “Oh, I can tell you in one word: cash. Cash.”

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