Mercedes Iman Diamond, the Glossary
Mercedes Iman Diamond is the stage name of Curran, a Kenyan-American drag performer who competed on season 11 of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race.[1]
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57 relations: Adam Joseph, Attitude (magazine), Bianca Del Rio, Billboard (magazine), Britney Spears, Bustle (magazine), Diva Worship, Donald Trump, Dotdash Meredith, Drag (entertainment), Drag queen, Drag show, Eldridge Industries, Ely, Minnesota, Entertainment Weekly, Gay Times, Get Out, Good God Girl, Get Out, Grease (musical), Hearst Communications, Here Media, Hey Qween!, Houston Chronicle, IMDb, Ivanka Trump, Jaidynn Diore Fierce, James Brown, Kahanna Montrese, Lavender (magazine), LGBT people and Islam, Lip sync, Living in America (James Brown song), Minneapolis, Minnesota Daily, Mombasa, Muslims, No Fly List, Out (magazine), Paris Is Burning (film), Queerty, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Racial profiling, RuPaul's Drag Race, RuPaul's Drag Race season 11, Rusical, Screen Rant, Social media, Stroke, This Is Africa, Trump: The Rusical, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Entertainers from Minneapolis
- Gay Muslims
- Kenyan LGBT entertainers
- Kenyan Muslims
- Kenyan emigrants to the United States
- Muslims from Minnesota
- People from Mombasa
Adam Joseph
Adam Joseph (born Adam Joseph Hodges; January 10, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter, and music producer.
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Attitude (magazine)
Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Stream Publishing Limited.
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Bianca Del Rio
Roy R. Haylock (born June 27, 1975), better known by the stage name Bianca Del Rio, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer. Mercedes Iman Diamond and Bianca Del Rio are American drag queens.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.
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Bustle (magazine)
Bustle is an online American women's magazine founded in August 2013 by Bryan Goldberg.
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Diva Worship
"Diva Worship" is the third episode of the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.
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Drag (entertainment)
Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.
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Drag queen
A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.
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Drag show
A drag show is a form of entertainment performed by drag artists impersonating men or women, typically in a bar or nightclub.
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Eldridge Industries
Eldridge Industries, LLC is an American holding company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in New York City, London, and Beverly Hills.
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Ely, Minnesota
Ely is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
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Gay Times
Gay Times (stylized in all caps), also known as GAY TIMES Magazine and as GT, is a UK-based LGBTQ+ media brand established in 1984.
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Get Out
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut.
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Good God Girl, Get Out
"Good God Girl, Get Out" is the second episode of the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Grease (musical)
Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
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Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Here Media Inc. is an LGBT-oriented media company.
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Hey Qween!
Hey Qween! is a talk show series on WOW Presents Plus, hosted by Jonny McGovern.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
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Ivanka Trump
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman.
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Jaidynn Diore Fierce
Jaidynn Diore Fierce is the stage name of Christopher Williams, an American drag performer who competed on season 7 of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race. Mercedes Iman Diamond and Jaidynn Diore Fierce are American drag queens, American gay entertainers and RuPaul's Drag Race contestants.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.
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Kahanna Montrese
Kahanna Montrese is the stage name of Tyrone Hardiman (born March 25, 1993), an American drag performer most known for competing on season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. Mercedes Iman Diamond and Kahanna Montrese are African-American drag queens, American drag queens and RuPaul's Drag Race contestants.
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Lavender (magazine)
Lavender is an American biweekly print and online magazine, part of Lavender Media, Inc., published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the LGBTQ+ community.
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LGBT people and Islam
Within the Muslim world, sentiment towards LGBT people varies and has varied between societies and individual Muslims, but is contemporarily negative.
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Lip sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced, the same as the word sink), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
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Living in America (James Brown song)
"Living in America" is a 1985 song composed by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight and performed by James Brown.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
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Minnesota Daily
The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions.
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Mombasa
Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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No Fly List
The No Fly List, maintained by the United States federal government's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), is one of several lists included in algorithmic rulesets used by government agencies and airlines to decide who to allow to board airline flights.
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Out (magazine)
Out is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States.
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Paris Is Burning (film)
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston.
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Queerty
Queerty is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay- and LGBTQ-oriented entertainment and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib.
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Ra'Jah O'Hara
Benni Miller (born Bennie Roy Miller; December 31, 1984), better known by the stage name Ra'Jah O'Hara, is an American drag queen best known for competing on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2019 and the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars in 2021. Mercedes Iman Diamond and Ra'Jah O'Hara are African-American drag queens, American drag queens and RuPaul's Drag Race contestants.
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Racial profiling
Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence.
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RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the fifteenth season, MTV.
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RuPaul's Drag Race season 11
The eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race aired on VH1 from February 28, 2019, to May 30, 2019.
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Rusical
A Rusical (portmanteau of "RuPaul" and "musical") is a musical theatre challenge recurring across the ''Drag Race'' television franchise.
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
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Stroke
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
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This Is Africa
This Is Africa is an English-language bi-monthly business publication owned by the Financial Times and edited in London.
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Trump: The Rusical
"Trump: The Rusical" is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race, which aired on VH1 on March 21, 2019.
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Viral video
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.
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WDIO-DT
WDIO-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.
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Whatcha Packin'
Whatcha Packin is an aftershow for RuPaul's Drag Race and its ''All Stars'' and ''Down Under'' spin-offs, hosted by Michelle Visage, who acts as a main judge for all three series.
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Whatcha Unpackin?
"Whatcha Unpackin?" is the first episode of the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Work Bitch
"Work Bitch" (edited for radio as "Work Work") is a song by American singer Britney Spears released as the lead single for her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013).
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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See also
Entertainers from Minneapolis
- Alice Elizabeth Doherty
- BeBe Zahara Benet
- Charles Askegard
- Dora Dean
- Johnny Fox (performer)
- Lili St. Cyr
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Utica Queen
Gay Muslims
- Abdellah Taïa
- Abu Nuwas
- Al-Ahwas Al-Ansari
- Alireza Shojaian
- Arsham Parsi
- Ayman Sikseck
- Daayiee Abdullah
- Faisal Alam
- Haaz Sleiman
- Imran Ahmad Khan
- Kazim Ali
- Khader Abu-Seif
- Khalid Abdel-Hadi
- Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
- Mawaan Rizwan
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Mohsin Zaidi (author)
- Mousbah Baalbaki
- Muhsin Hendricks
- Nur Warsame
- Omar Sharif Jr.
- Prince Abdul Azim of Brunei
- Rachid O.
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Saleem (playwright)
- Saleem Kidwai
- Sister Boom Boom
- Sohail Ahmed (former Islamist)
- Tan France
- Tofik Dibi
- Very Idham Henyansyah
- Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
Kenyan LGBT entertainers
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
Kenyan Muslims
- Aasif Karim
- Abdalla Mwidau
- Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed
- Abdul Majid Cockar
- Aboud Omar
- Aboud Rogo
- Ali Korane
- Ali Mazrui
- Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
- Allidina Visram
- Amina Mohamed
- Awadh Saleh Sherman
- Bali Mauladad
- Basheer Mauladad
- Basher Hassan
- Chirau Ali Mwakwere
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
- Habib Salih
- Hafeez Manji
- Irfan Karim
- Jamal Mohamed
- Malik Obama
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Mohamed Yusuf Haji
- Mohammed Abduba Dida
- Muslim Kanji
- Najib Balala
- Noordin Haji
- Omar Ahmed
- Ragheb Aga
- Rama Salim
- Saad Musa
- Salim Lone
- Sarah Onyango Obama
- Sauda Rajab
- Shakeel Shabbir
- Shehzana Anwar
- Yusuf Hassan Abdi
- Zahid Sadiq
Kenyan emigrants to the United States
- Ali S. Asani
- Aliphine Tuliamuk
- Amram Musungu
- Benjamin Onyango
- Bernard Lagat
- Brad Marshall
- Celeste O'Connor
- Edi Gathegi
- Edward Cheserek
- Elkanah Kibet
- Emmanuel Bor
- Gabriela Trzebinski
- Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
- Hamida Dakane
- Hillary Bor
- Joseph Chirlee
- Kennedy Odede
- Lawi Lalang
- Leonard Korir
- Liaquat Ahamed
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Makau Mutua
- Malik Obama
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Michael Tolaydo
- Mugo Gatheru
- Mwende Katwiwa
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Omar Wasow
- Paul Chelimo
- Rees Odhiambo
- Richard Leakey
- Saheem Ali
- Samba Mapangala
- Shadrack Kipchirchir
- Shailja Patel
- Simon Gikandi
- Teresia Mbari Hinga
Muslims from Minnesota
- Aisha Chughtai
- Douglas McCain
- Halima Aden
- Hussein Samatar
- Ilhan Omar
- Karl Procaccini
- Keith Ellison
- Khalid El-Amin
- M. A. R. Barker
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Mohamud Noor
- Nimco Ahmed
- Omar Fateh
- Ryan Harris (American football)
- Sadik Hakim
- Sahra Noor
- Shirwa Ahmed
- Thomas J. Abercrombie
- Troy Kastigar
- Zaynab Abdi
People from Mombasa
- Abdilatif Abdalla
- Abdillahi Nassir
- Agnelo Gracias
- Ali Mandhry
- Ali Mazrui
- Andy Chande
- Awadh Saleh Sherman
- Bwana Kheri
- Catherine Mturi-Wairi
- Christopher Okinda
- Doreen Majala
- Dudley Owen-Thomas
- Eliud Mbilu
- Esther Passaris
- Eve D'Souza
- Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
- Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
- Hassan Joho
- Hezron Awiti Bollo
- Imran Yusuf
- Janet Mbugua
- Joseph Muriuki
- Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
- Lizzie Kiama
- Malaika Firth
- Manoj Sood
- Maqbul Mohammed
- Martin Kimani
- Mary Oyaya
- Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Michael Werikhe
- Nadira Naipaul
- Najib Balala
- Nice Githinji
- Paul Onsongo
- Peer Portner
- Quassim Cassam
- Rohan Mehra (born 1991)
- Rose Omamo
- Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan
- Sanaipei Tande
- Sarah Hassan
- Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
- Shenaaz Nanji
- Stephen Lloyd
- Thomas R. Odhiambo
- Umra Omar
- Vera Sidika
- Yusuf ibn al-Hasan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Iman_Diamond
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