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Patricia Quinn Was Not a Fan of Aiden Zhane's Snatch Game Performance
It wasn't the best 'RuPaul's Drag Race' moment out there for sure.
April 06 2020 12:54 PM EST
May 26 2023 1:35 PM EST
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It wasn't the best 'RuPaul's Drag Race' moment out there for sure.
Aiden Zhane did herself no favors when she chose Patricia Quinn for her "Snatch Game" character on RuPaul's Drag Race. Her season 12 competitors warned her against it in the Werk Room, but she stuck to her guns based on the fact that she had, in fact, met the star, most known for her role in Rocky Horror Picture show. That proved to be not enough material for the judges, landing Zhane in the week's bottom two. And apparently, it wasn't enough for Quinn herself.
In a series of screenshots of Facebook posts posted to Twitter, Quinn distances herself from Zane and condemns the portrayal.
"I was o thrilled when I heard that one of the little bitches on RuPaul's Drag Race was going to impersonate my bestie Patricia Stephens," Gregor Gillespie wrote in a post. "I was excited because he wasn't portraying "Magenta" -- but her as a person and that's what made it exciting because he had a massive opportunity to share the Magic of Patricia to a big audience."
"Well boy was I wrong," he continued. Gillespie called the performance a "complete antithesis" of who Quinn is and said it "failed to capture the most basic of things about her such as her notable voice." As Gillespie tagged Quinn in the post, she had a few things of her own to say.
"Disgusted beyond belief," she wrote in a comment. "Liar. I do not know this utterly untalented person shite." (Punctuation added by Out.)
Quinn continued in another post: "He called me a drug addict!!!!!" she wrote. "And knew nothing about me. [You're] disappointing!"
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Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.
Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.