Sharon Needles

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    Sharon Needles blasts Katy Perry, mainstream pop industry: 'They use drag queens as puppets'

    “I think Miley's more of an ally than, say, Katy Perry, who most definitely panders to the gay community,” says Sharon Needles, before reciting some of Perry’s more offensive lyrics.

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    Drag Queen of the Damned: Sharon Needles Shares Her Sickening Halloween Soundtrack

    Sharon Needles is the great Gothic scream queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the supernaturally cool Season 4 winner who during her victory speech uttered one of the show’s most genius lines: “If anyone boos you offstage, that is simply applause from ghosts.”

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    Festival Realness: The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ All-Stars Make Their Rock Fest Debut at Beach Goth

    Only at Beach Goth — a dizzyingly diverse festival curated by Orange Country garage/surf/psych band the Growlers, and featuring everyone from Bon Iver and James Blake to Tricky, TSOL, and even TLC — would the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race fit right in. So it was there, on Saturday at the Observatory in Santa Ana, Calif., that Drag Race divas Adore Delano, Ginger Minj, Sharon Needles, and Alaska 5000 — all singing live — donned some day drag and made their proper, official rock festival debut.

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    Watch ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Stars Christen New L.A. Boutique With Live-Stream Music Showcase

    The grand opening of PEG: The Store takes place tonight, Thursday the 9th, in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District, with a live PEG Records musical showcase featuring some of your favorite RuPaul’s Drag Race stars. Season 6 top three finalist Adore Delano, Season 5 top three finalist Alaska 5000, Season 4 winner Sharon Needles, and Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon will all be in attendance, singing (not lip-synching) for their lives. 

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    Sharon Needles Strips Down for Yahoo Music Performance

    Sharon Needles, the Season 4 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is one of many Drag Race alumni flooding the marketplace with original music – most recently with her sophomore album, Taxidermy. “I’m more Courtney Love than Courtney Act,” Sharon jokes, rocking a stained G.G. Allin T-shirt and Blade Runner/Adam Ant warpaint, and a Pete Burns wig, as she visits Yahoo Music to publicly perform stripped-down, so to speak, for the very first time. All of these elements (except maybe Britney) are evident

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    Video Premiere: Celebrate Black Friday With 'Drag Race' Star Sharon Needles

    Whom better to spend Black Friday with than the princess of darkness herself, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 winner Sharon Needles?