Lettin It All Hang Out: An Autobiography

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Summary: Deeply moving
Review: I read this book for fun, and came away from it deeply, deeply moved. Having read Gender Shock, Transgender Warriors, Stone Butch Blues and been blown away by Boys Don't Cry, RuPaul was the next logical step in my exploration of this new frontier in gender study. This beautiful man knows more about love and tolerance than I could ever hope to know in a month of Sundays. The book IS fun -- it is also love, peace, healing...and hope. We should all be so lucky as to have someone like RuPaul in our lives. And no matter what he is or is not wearing, he is oh so easy on the eyes!

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Summary: I know Ru's life like I know my own after reading his book
Review: RuPaul -
Let me count the ways that RuPaul has affected my life and many others, from Her starting career, Her Albums, Her Site and Her New Television Show.
She tells us all in Her book - How She did it and how for you to achieve it - So Read IT !

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Summary: Keeping It All Tucked In
Review: Thank you RuPaul for writing this book! What a treasure it is. I'm not sure how much non-fans, and hetero's will appreciate it, but for me it has been a lifeline! Anyone who has been through the wringer (and man does Ru have stories for you), is a drag queen, has a sense of humor (RuPaul is wickedly funny, tough never mean), or wants to learn more about Ru should pick up this book ASAP. Ru has been very brave in letting us into his mind, life and soul. There are many life lessons to be learned along the way and a whole mess of laughs too! What a suprise to find it published by Diney! This is also a great how-to-be-a-drag-queen book. Ru tells ALL her secrets and gives tips on releaseing the inner drag queen in us all. Finally he is revelaed to be a person of great strength, integrity, bravery and also very wise. I wish we all could be a bit more like "little Ru-Ru". Full of pictures, wit and wisdom this is a MUST buy!

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Summary: Supermodel of the World!!
Review: Thank you RuPaul for writing this book! What a treasure it is. I'm not sure how much non-fans, and hetero's will appreciate it, but for me it has been a lifeline! Anyone who has been through the wringer (and man does Ru have stories for you), is a drag queen, has a sense of humor (RuPaul is wickedly funny, tough never mean), or wants to learn more about Ru should pick up this book ASAP. Ru has been very brave in letting us into his mind, life and soul. There are many life lessons to be learned along the way and a whole mess of laughs too! What a suprise to find it published by Diney! This is also a great how-to-be-a-drag-queen book. Ru tells ALL her secrets and gives tips on releaseing the inner drag queen in us all. Finally he is revelaed to be a person of great strength, integrity, bravery and also very wise. I wish we all could be a bit more like "little Ru-Ru". Full of pictures, wit and wisdom this is a MUST buy!

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Summary: Keeping It All Tucked In
Review: Very uninformative, at least untitillating. Who were/are Ru's lovers? Was he ever an "escort"? Is he top or bottom? He delivers some pious blab along the lines of Tolerance and Being Who You Are, but it feels like a studio cover-up bio of a Rock Hudson figure from the past. Ru is "outrageous", but why? In LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT his revelations are much less bizarre than what we know about Liberace or Andy Warhol, or even what we speculate about Siegfried & Roy. There must be SOMETHING transfiguring that sent him down this life-path, for better or worse. But we aren't given a clue. (HIDING MY CANDY by The Lady Chablis is much more forthcoming on the psychogenesis of crossdressing and homoeroticism.)