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Yuhua Hamasaki
Yuhua Hamasaki is the stage name of Yuhua Ou, a Chinese-born American drag queen, singer, actor and reality television personality who came to international attention on the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Ou was born on March 1, 1990, in Guangzhou. They moved to New York City when they were seven and started doing drag on the club kid scene under the name Yuhua. They later added Hamasaki after Japanese idol Ayumi Hamasaki. Ou holds a business management degree from Pace University. Career Before ''Drag Race'', Hamasaki was one of several drag queens appearing in Katy Perry's performance of "Swish Swish" on ''Saturday Night Live'' in May 2017. She also designed outfits for other ''Drag Race'' alum prior to her appearance on the series, including Aquaria, Bob the Drag Queen, Peppermint, Aja, Jiggly Caliente, Alexis Michelle and Monét X Change. She has won multiple pageant titles including Miss Fire Island, Miss Fire Island All Stars, Miss Stonewall, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road; it continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub as well as being one of China's three largest cities. For a long time, the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders, Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Due to worldwide travel restrictions at the beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aja (entertainer)
Venus Nadya Oshun, known professionally as Aja LaBeija, better known mononymously as Aja () (born January 4, 1994) is an American rapper, reality television personality and drag queen best known for competing on the ninth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and on the third season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Aja released her debut EP, ''In My Feelings'', in 2018, followed by her debut studio album, ''BOX Office'', in February 2019. Her second EP, ''ALL CAPS'', was released in June 2019. She released '' Nail in the Coffin'', a Halloween-themed EP, in collaboration with Shilow later that year. She recently starred as a contestant on the third season of ''Legendary'' on HBO Max, where she finished in 6th place with the House of LaBeija. Early life Aja was born on January 4, 1994, in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She was raised by adoptive parents. She used to suffer from PTSD and anxiety, attributing her to a "broken family" situation, but stopped having panic attacks afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Wonder (company)
World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions with a key focus on sexuality, erotica, and the sexual subculture. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, and VH1 with credits including the ''Million Dollar Listing'' docuseries, ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', and the documentary films '' Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures'' (2016) and '' The Eyes of Tammy Faye'' (2000). World of Wonder is perhaps best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known LGBTQ production is ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', having managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul for many years before this, eventually producing the fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity The Tuck
Ryan A. Taylor, known professionally as Trinity "The Tuck" Taylor or just Trinity the Tuck (born December 10, 1985),Taylor in is an American drag queen and recording artist best known for competing on the ninth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and for winning the fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', shared with Monét X Change. She went by Trinity "the Tuck" Taylor on her original season, but on the first episode of ''All Stars'', she indicated that she would henceforth go simply by Trinity the Tuck. Trinity recently competed on the seventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', the first all winners edition of the franchise. Early life Taylor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Trussville and Springville, Alabama, attending Springville High School. Shortly after her birth, Taylor was raised by her grandparents due to her mother contracting HIV and subsequently dying. Her drag mother is Jordan Kennedy. Career Trinity was named Miss Pulse by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mila Jam
Mila Jam is an American transgender singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and LGBTQ activist. Early life and education Jahmila Adderley, known as Mila Jam, was born in Aurora, Illinois, on February22, 1989. She was raised in Columbus, Georgia, by her mother, Stephanie Adderley, an IT technician, and Phillip Adderley, a CEBAF lab technician. She attended Columbus High School. Before continuing her career in New York City at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, she performed in several national stage productions and televisions commercials. Career Mila Jam performed as the popular YouTube impersonator Britney Houston. She was known for creating parodies of popular videos and posting them on YouTube within days of the original videos' releases. She began creating her parodies while in the national touring company of ''Rent''. Several of her parodies have over a million hits, with her parody of Rihanna's song ''Umbrella'' having over two million. For her parody of the Puss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laverne Cox
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series ''Orange Is the New Black'', becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for ''Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word'', making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBSs ''Doubt''. Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show ''I Want to Work for Diddy'', and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series '' TRANSform Me''. In April 2014, Cox was honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayhem Miller (drag Queen)
Mayhem Miller is the stage name of Dequan Armand Johnson (born February 9, 1982), an American drag performer and actor, best known for competing on the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' (2018) and the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' (2020). Early life Johnson is from Riverside, California. She got the drag name "Mayhem Miller" from Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's sex tape. She started doing drag on May 10, 2002, the same year as fellow ''Drag Race'' alumna Raven and the year after Morgan McMichaels, whom Johnson worked with before ''Drag Race''. Johnson's other drag colleagues are alum Detox and Delta Work. She auditioned for ''Drag Race'' every year beginning with season two. Career Mayhem Miller was announced as one of fourteen contestants for the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on February 22, 2018. She was declared the winner of the episode one sewing challenge. In episode three, she was in the bottom two and lip synced "Celebrity Skin" ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hole (band)
Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 in music, 1989. It was founded by singer Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson. It had several different bassists and drummers, the most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur. Hole released a total of four studio albums between two incarnations spanning the 1990s and early-2010s and became one of the most commercially successful rock bands in history fronted by a woman. Influenced by Los Angeles' punk rock scene, the band's debut album, ''Pretty on the Inside'' (1991), was produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, and attracted critical interest from British and American alternative press. Their second album, ''Live Through This'', released 1994 by DGC Records, which featured less aggressive melodies and more restrained lyrical content, was widely acclaimed and reached RIAA certification, platinum status within a year of its relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebrity Skin
''Celebrity Skin'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on September 8, 1998, in the United States on DGC Records and internationally on Geffen Records. It was the last album released by the band before their dissolution in 2002. Hole intended for the record to diverge significantly from their previous noise and grunge-influenced sound as featured on ''Pretty on the Inside'' (1991) and ''Live Through This'' (1994). The band hired producer Michael Beinhorn to record ''Celebrity Skin'' over a nine-month period that included sessions in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. It was the band's only studio release to feature bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. Drummer Patty Schemel played the demos for the album, but was replaced by session drummer Deen Castronovo at the suggestion of producer Beinhorn. This issue created a rift between Schemel and the band, resulting in her dropping out of the tour and parting ways with the group, though she received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lip Sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , the same as the word ''sink'', short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals. Audio for lip syncing is generated through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema speakers, or other forms of audio output. The term can refer to any of a number of different techniques and processes, in the context of live performances and audiovisual recordings. In film production, lip syncing is often part of the post-production phase. Dubbing foreign-language films and making animated characters appear to speak both require elaborate lip syncing. Many video games make extensive use of lip-synced sound files to create an immersive environment in which on-screen characters appear to be speaking. In the music industry, lip syncing is used by singers for music videos, television and film appearances and some types of live perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is a primary care center located at 356 West 18th Street in New York City, New York. Callen-Lorde also provides comprehensive mental health services at The Thea Spyer Center, located at 230 West 17th Street. Callen-Lorde is dedicated to providing medical health care to the city's LGBTQ population without regard to ability to pay. It is named in honor of Michael Callen and Audre Lorde. The facility offers a variety of services, including dental care, HIV/ STD testing and treatment, mental health services, women's health services, transgender hormone therapy, and medical case management support. Callen-Lorde is also home to the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) program, which serves youth between the ages of 13 and 22 in an on-premises clinic and a fully equipped medical van. Callen-Lorde is the only primary care center in New York City created specifically to serve LGBTQ communities. Callen-Lorde's grassroots heritage dates back nearly 50 years t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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