![]() She loved adding elements of camp and glamour to this everyday character. At the onset of her drag evolution, Goode’s first “persona” was that of a 1950s housewife. The ensembles in question have evolved in both design and concept. Later, as Goode ascended to the hallowed work room of Drag Race, she made a point to specifically wear looks made by her mother, “'Cause girl, you're on Drag Race, you got to have a storyline. In her teenage years, that meant one a week to stretch funds. Geggie has made a majority of the drag looks Goode has worn throughout her career. (The result of which was a yellow raincoat and a painted bag worn for Drag Race’s Bee Mini challenge). Sparked by something seemingly average, like a mural of the Morton’s Salt girl in her hometown of Chicago, the budding drag queen would design an ensemble that her mother, Kristi Geggie, would then bring to life. ![]() Goode loves to turn the mundane into capital-F Fashion it’s what garnered a great deal of her initial following. Now glittering with the aforementioned pebbles, the dress does, in fact, look as if it sat beneath a sprinkler all night-in the most fabulous way possible. “And that's just going to be adorable.” Goode is describing a look she wore at a recent drag performance that features a near transparent bustier top (whose fabric she fell in love with on a recent trip to Mood as it disappeared against her skin). “I was like, ‘Oh my God, if I glue all of these all over a dress, it's going to look like I'm a little pixie covered in dew drops,” she muses. “I do identify as a trans, non-binary person, but I prefer she/her pronouns,” she said, adding that she will be known as Gigi Goode “from here on out”.“I saw a transparent fish tank pebble that looked like a dew drop,” model and drag artist Gigi Goode recounts. “I’m just going to look a little bit more feminine or born a female. Without getting into too much detail, which I may or may not do – I don’t feel like it’s anyone’s business but my own, I just feminized the parts of my face that I felt needed feminisation. ![]() “It depends on the person and what they feel they need to feminize their face. “I knew that I wanted this to be a journey I was going on by myself, on my own, without any input from the outside world,” she said. ![]() Years later and among her realisations, watching the television show Veneno, which charts the life of trans singer Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez, gave her the blueprints to be “who I’m supposed to be”. This was the first time, she said, that she had spoken about her gender-fluidity. In the Drag Race werk room, Gigi Goode, then 21, told her fellow queens that she felt “both and neither” and she “teeters between male and female throughout my whole life”. “If the world hadn’t shut down,” Goode added, “I really wouldn’t have to process it further.” “I would say that I’m leaning more towards the non-binary side of that. “On Drag Race, which was almost two years ago, I came out as gender-fluid, which I still very much identify with,” she said. The coronavirus pandemic, Gigi Goode said, was a “crucial” moment to let her breathe and, at last, reflect on her gender identity after having so little time when the episodes of Drag Race “were airing”. ![]() “Right at the beginning of the year, I decided to begin the process of hormone replacement therapy,” she said in the eight-minute-long video, “which for those of you who don’t know, is the process of taking oestrogen and testosterone blockers as a means of bringing in the woman and pushing out the man.” Gigi Goode says the pandemic gave her time to pause and realise she is trans ![]()
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