*RuPaul’s fourth book will be a memoir that will hit bookshelves next year.
Titled “The House of Hidden Meanings,” the book will unpack RuPaul’s rags to riches journey starting from his early life as a Black queer kid in San Diego, Rolling Stone reports.
“RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography,” reads a synopsis of the book, per Metro Weekly. “From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.”
“The House of Hidden Meanings” focuses on RuPaul’s life and career before he launched his Emmy-winning reality series “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
“I’ve always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface,” RuPaul said of the book in a statement. “Here, the focus is on my own life — as RuPaul Andre Charles.”
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RuPaul said writing the book was “very cathartic.”
“I feel like I’ve kept up a poker face and held my cards close to my chest my whole life, and I still do that, because it’s a protection mechanism,” he added.
“It’s one of my navigational tools in life: to remember who you are, and then to share it with everyone—especially in a world where people are sometimes looking to tear you apart and to use your kindness against you, to say that you’re weak. But the opposite is true. Your vulnerability is where your real power is,” RuPaul shared.
“The House of Hidden Meanings” will drop on March 5, 2024.
RuPaul’s first book, 1995’s “Lettin’ It All Hang Out,” was also an autobiography.
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