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RuPaul‘s highly anticipated new memoir The House of Hidden Meanings was announced back in October of 2023, but the queer icon’s tell-all has already skyrocketed to the top of on Amazon’s bestselling LGBTQ+ Biographies list ahead of its release.
With the release date and cover revealed late last year, Mama Ru’s revelatory memoir gives his fans a behind-the-scenes look into the first 40 years of his life — before he co-created Drag Race. Spanning 256 pages, The House of Hidden Meanings covers everything from RuPaul‘s early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego, navigating his “complex relationship” with his absentee father and “temperamental” mother, to finding identity in the punk and drag scenes…