RuPaul's Drag Race Celebrates 200 Episodes With a Ball & Party

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RuPaul's Drag Race play 15 queens Sasha Colby and Marcia Marcia Marcia told E! News what fans missed successful those shorter episodes and what's to travel present that they're astir backmost to afloat length.

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Two 100 laps aboriginal and inactive going strong.

RuPaul's Drag Race just crossed a large milestone, truthful to observe the reality competition's 200th episode, MTV threw RuPaul a televised ball and a enactment astatine Heart WeHo connected Feb. 24.

Among the Drag Race royalty successful attendance were play 15 sisters Sasha Colby and Marcia Marcia Marcia, who exclusively told E! News what the infinitesimal meant for themselves and the LGBTQ community.

"Two 100 episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race means 200 times that radical could larn to not beryllium ignorant," Sasha explained. "Two 100 times wherever we got to yet beryllium normalized, our creation got to beryllium celebrated, and radical who are truly hard-working resistance queens get to person their flowers."

For her part, Marcia Marcia Marcia reflected connected what Drag Race's bequest means amid anti-drag authorities successful immoderate states.

"With everything going connected politically close now, I deliberation for a franchise similar this to person reached a 200th occurrence is simply a truly large deal," she noted. "It is tangible impervious that radical successful this state emotion resistance and that radical emotion queerness. Anybody trying to soundlessness that oregon negate that is blatantly incorrect."

Sasha went connected to triumph the night's main situation connected TV and followed it up with a unrecorded resistance amusement successful West Hollywood. She besides shared what fans have missed retired connected due to the network's shortened, 60-minute episodes.

"We had an astonishing speech with the Old Gays," Sasha recalled. "We each got to inquire definite questions to them and truly conscionable speech one-on-one to recognize if we are fortunate capable to get old, it's a blessing. Especially for america queer people."

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She continued, "Hearing the facts, the proposal they gave america was truthful great. Going done beingness without regrets. Not feeling similar you held back, which is simply a truly large happening aboriginal connected successful life. Hearing that astatine that constituent successful the contention was truly effective."

Still, erstwhile the 90-minute episodes instrumentality March 10, fans tin expect more of the amusement they cognize and love (Drag Race, which archetypal premiered connected Logo successful 2009, has aired super-sized episodes alongside aftershow Untucked since its determination to VH1—its location earlier MTV—in play 10 successful 2018).

"It's gonna get truly good," Sasha confirmed. "The momentum's gonna prime up. Hopefully, it'll springiness aged schoolhouse Drag Race seasons—a batch of shadiness and a batch of fierce drag."

See however play 15 of RuPaul's Drag Race plays out, Fridays connected MTV.

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