We all know the RuPaul Charles is making a hell of a lot of money. With RuPaul's Drag Race, DragCon, and all of the affiliates, she's bringing in a real coin. Many of us also know that Charles owns a ranch in Wyoming with his husband Georges LeBar. But now, in a new interview, the queen of drag is giving people a little more insight on the operation and the fracking that happens there. Wait, what?
First things first, the LeBar ranch is a whopping 60,000 acres. Yes, you read that right: 60,000 acres. That's larger than a dozen national parks in America, a point that interviewer Terry Gross made in a recent interview for NPR.
"Yeah," Charles responds. "Yeah. It's a lot."
"What are you doing with them? I mean -- that came out a little weird. But I mean do you have, like, horses or cattle or a farm or ..." Gross asks.
"Well, a modern ranch, 21st century ranch, is really land management," Charles explains. "it is -- you lease the mineral rights to oil companies. And you sell water to oil companies. And you then lease the graing rights to different ranchers. So it's land management. Yeah."
"So what was it like for you to live on a ranch?" Gross presses on. "I mean, you're so, like, New York, Atlanta." But more than a few Twitter users cuaght something that Gross clearly did not.
\u201cHOLD UP. (Non-COVID content) @RuPaul was just on @NPRFreshAir and shared that he & his partner own 60,000 acres in Wyoming & they "lease mineral rights ... and sell water to oil companies" and Terry Gross did not follow up with one question about the fact that RuPaul is FRACKING\u201d— Rory Solomon (@Rory Solomon) 1584301282
"HOLD UP," Rory Solomon wrote to Twitter Sunday. "RuPaul was just on NPR's Fresh Air and shared that he and his partner own 60,000 acres in Wyoming and the 'lease mineral rights ... and sell water to oil companies' and Terry Gross did not follow up with one question about the fact that RuPaul is FRACKING." That's ... exactly what happened.
Obviously, Twitter let Ru have it.
\u201c\u201cRuPaul is fracking\u201d https://t.co/gxmlGTxCY7\u201d— JP (@JP) 1584328220
\u201cRuPaul is queering fracking and I think that's beautiful\u201d— Sturgeon's Law (@Sturgeon's Law) 1584331829
\u201cRuPaul when he sees someone drowning in the Hudson and when oil companies use his land for fracking\u201d— Will Kellogg (@Will Kellogg) 1584326498
\u201cRupaul fracking while throwing a climate change themed ball episode of drag race is the neoliberal hellscape ive become accustomed to\u201d— Lily Raynes (@Lily Raynes) 1584328608
\u201c\u201crupaul is fracking\u201d is exactly as impossible for my brain to parse as \u201celizabeth warren holocaust tattoo\u201d and yet both are true and both will be forgotten completely by next sunday\u201d— zooey \ud83d\udc00 (@zooey \ud83d\udc00) 1584326598
This is as crazy as the time that Charles said he saw someone drowning and did literally nothing.
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