“Join the Ruvolution” as 14 new queens go head-to-head on the mainstage in the thrilling two-night split premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 16. Five Latine queens including Geneva Karr, Megami, Mirage, Morphine Love Dion and Xunami Muse make RuPaul’s Drag Race “herstory” as the cast with the most Latine queens in a single season of the show’s history.
Geneva Karr, the “Diva Más Latina” is the first queen born in Mexico to compete in the main “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchise. Geneva’s RuPaul’s Drag Race bio reveals that at a young age, she immigrated to the United States with her family in search of better opportunities after seeing her parents struggle. The “Diva Más Latina” currently resides in Brownsville, Texas.
Megami is a proud, self-identified “Nuyorican,” a term used to describe a Puerto Rican New Yorker, who proudly refers to her drag as “geek-chic.” Megami started her career as a cosplayer at conventions like Comic-Con, where she began implementing a high-fashion approach to her character designs. Her “Meet the Queens” revealed that “Megami means ‘goddess’ in Japanese.”
Mirage Amuro, a queen of Indigenous and Mexican descent, hails from Sin City– Las Vegas. Mirage proudly refers to herself as the “Legs of Las Vegas.” Las Vegas’ renowned showgirls heavily influence Mirage’s aesthetic and performance style.
Morphine Love Dion is the first Nicaraguan queen to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race and is the self-proclaimed “Latina Goddess” from Miami. Morphine boldly integrates her Latine heritage by taking inspiration from Kali Uchis, JLO and Shakira. Before her RuPaul’s Drag Race debut, Morphine was featured in Bad Bunny’s music video for “Caro.”
Xunami Muse, originally from Colón, Panama, is the second queen from the Central American country to compete in the show’s franchise. After moving to New York, Season 13 finalist Kandy Muse became her “drag mother” where she helped nurture Xunami into the fierce queen she is today.
Season 16 is full of twists with the split premiere adding an anonymous rank voting system named “Rate-A-Queen,” allowing the queens to rank their fellow competitors, determining their placement for the episode.
After 11 years, the show reintroduced immunity, an advantage that could save a contestant from elimination on the next episode, originally scrapped in Season Five. The two premiere winners were granted “immunity potions” that could help save themselves or a queen of their choice from a future elimination.
Watch these fierce Latina queens hit the mainstage on Fridays at 8/7 CT on MTV and other streaming platforms. The race to become America’s next drag superstar has only just begun, so racers start your engines and may the best drag queen win.