Drag queen character RuPaul has revealed he’s constructing a “fortified compound” in preparation for an impending civil struggle.

The 63-year-old, whose actual identify is RuPaul Andrew Charles and whose present is commonly credited with selling drag queens into in style tradition, made the extraodinary revelation in a profile with The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow, explaining that he was “fearing the absolute worst” in regards to the prospects of civil struggle:

RuPaul is braced for battle. “I’m fearing the absolute worst,” he stated. “We are moments away from fucking civil war. All the signs are there.” He continued, “Humans on this planet are in the cycle of destruction. I am plotting a safety net.”

He was referring to a fortified compound being constructed on the sixty-thousand-acre ranch of his husband, Georges LeBar, in Wyoming.

“I wouldn’t call it a bunker,” he stated. However it’s designed to resist calamity. “It’s a lot of concrete and a lot of things. I keep thinking about these castles that I’m going to bed to.”

Over the course of the interview, the host of Ru Paul’s Drag Race additionally offered his views on gender and unsurprisingly he thinks it isn’t an actual idea.

.@ronanfarrow spends time with the world’s most well-known drag queen, RuPaul, who’s without delay a public determine and a very personal particular person. When requested how he’s doing, he usually responds, “I don’t see how that’s any of your business.” https://t.co/egEBu4lo3M

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 1, 2024

“Gender is a concept that we come up with, in our minds and our egos,” he instructed Farrow. “My genitals are male. But I can be whatever I can. I feel I’m everything. You are everything. You are male, female. Sometimes I feel more male than others.”

“If a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library, listen to her because knowledge is power, and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you. So listen to a drag queen!”

—RuPaul’s #Emmys speech pic.twitter.com/14VLicse38

— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) January 16, 2024

Earlier this 12 months, Charles used his acceptance speech on the Emmy Awards to defend the rise of Drag Queen Story Hours, the place males costume up as girls and browse intercourse tales to impressionable younger youngsters.

“Listen, if a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library, listen to her,” Charles stated as he accepted the award. “Knowledge is power and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you.”