THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul
comes his most revealing to date - a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up
Black poor and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and
self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life relationships and identity The House
of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and
changing the way the world thinks about drag. Central to RuPaul's success has been his
chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest
television franchises RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both
supermodel and super mogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this
memoir his most intimate and detailed book yet RuPaul makes himself truly known. Stripping
away all artifice RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breath taking clarity and
tenderness bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. 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 own biography uncovering new truths and insights in his
personal history. Here in RuPaul's singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living-a
personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family the importance of harnessing
what makes you different and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly. If
we're all born naked and the rest is drag then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is
RuPaul stripped bare.
