RuPaul gave me life: How “Drag Race” pulled me back from the depths of depression

“The time has come for you to lip-sync … for your life.”The first time I heard RuPaul dramatically utter these words, a weekly contestant elimination standard on Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” was 2009.That statement, followed by a pair of spotlights arcing dramatically around a pair unfortunate drag queens who didn’t make the grade that week, marks the beginning of the end for one unfortunate.Not before the bottom two defend their right to cla