Price remembers her child as quiet but very focused and dedicated. Symone’s mother, Regina Price, 54, worked with children with disabilities, and her father, Eddie Gavin, 53, was a factory worker at Virco Manufacturing Corporation. , a small city that she described as “quiet and Southern.” She remembers being a “very, very shy kid” and felt different, she said: “I always kind of felt like I didn’t really belong.” “I wanted everyone to know who I was,” she said.) (On the first episode of the season, she walked into the show’s workroom wearing a mini dress made of Polaroids of herself. “If you sprinkle all those women together and put a dash of my mother you get Symone,” she said.īy the time she made it to the final round of contestants to participate in the 13th season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a reality-show where drag stars create looks and compete in challenges, she had been carefully crafting this aesthetic for years. “We, as queer people, that’s kind of our thing,” Symone, 26, said from her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by posters of women she looks up to. She started storing the images on the camera roll on her phone, taking note of the clothing, shoes and makeup - not to recreate the looks, but rather to honor her idols through homage in drag. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna. For years, Symone - the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin - has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women.
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