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‘Drag Race UK’ winner The Vivienne dead at 32
News. com.au via NY Post ^ | 1/05/25 | Lauren McMah

Posted on 01/05/2025 3:30:13 PM PST by Libloather

British drag star James Lee Williams, known professionally as The Vivienne, has died at the age of 32.

Williams shot to international fame as the winner of the first UK version of RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2019, and became the first drag performer to compete on Britain’s Dancing on Ice in 2023.

Their death was confirmed early on Monday morning.

“It is with immense sadness that we let you know our beloved James Lee Williams – The Vivienne – has passed away this weekend,” Simon Jones PR posted.

“James was an incredible loved, warm-hearted and amazing person.”

“Their family are heartbroken at the loss of their son, brother, and uncle.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: dead; drag; pretengender; vivienne; winner
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Their death...

Say wha...? This could complicate the autopsies. That's a shame.

1 posted on 01/05/2025 3:30:13 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

WSGAS.
We Scarcely Give A .....


2 posted on 01/05/2025 3:31:57 PM PST by Da Coyote (u)
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To: Libloather

Oh, well.


3 posted on 01/05/2025 3:32:25 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather
"Their death was confirmed..."
“Their family are heartbroken..."

I'm guessing He, She and It covers all bases thus qualifying for plural. Plural makes perfect sense for such sufferers of Dissociative identity disorder (DID).

4 posted on 01/05/2025 3:33:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: Libloather
Well, technically, you could say “they” both died. James Lee Williams *and* his pretengender, “Vivienne”.
5 posted on 01/05/2025 3:34:32 PM PST by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: Libloather

I wish we could go back to an era where saying you blew a tranny at a drag race meant that you had a mechanical failure at the racetrack.


6 posted on 01/05/2025 3:34:36 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Libloather

The doctor doing the autopsy has better wear a hazmat suit. God only knows how many exotic bacteria and viruses will be found in its corpse.


7 posted on 01/05/2025 3:36:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Da Coyote

I’m proud of my ignorance in this realm.


8 posted on 01/05/2025 3:36:54 PM PST by xp38
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To: IYAS9YAS

Really. I read the title and thought there had been a crash on a speedway during a race somewhere…


9 posted on 01/05/2025 3:37:14 PM PST by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: Gay State Conservative

That’s right.


10 posted on 01/05/2025 3:37:32 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: xp38

So am I.


11 posted on 01/05/2025 3:37:47 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Some years back Ricky Gervais did a Top Ten List on Letterman. It was called "Top Ten Things Americans Misinterpret When Brits Speak"

Gervais did the thing himself.

One of them was "What do you mean by "let's go smoke a fag"?

12 posted on 01/05/2025 3:39:46 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Libloather

Based on the standard saccharine nonsense media statements, I guess death was by overdose or suicide.


13 posted on 01/05/2025 3:50:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Libloather

First of all, I am a woman, 72 years old, and have been “in show business” for nearly a half century. (Rock Musician).

That said, I apply a thin layer of foundation, a little blush, and eye make-up every day. I hardly increase it at all for a stage performance. Yet, my facial features are visible onstage, and there is no question that I am a woman, even if I wear jeans, a T-Shirt, and engineer boots, play the bass, and sing contralto.

If Transsexuals claim they are “born that way”, why do they have to apply their make-up with a trowel? Why do they have eyeshadow that creeps up their foreheads, and huge fake eyelashes that look like awnings?

If they are “born that way”, why do they have to inject silicone into their lips, pull out teeth to raise their cheekbones, and have multiple plastic surgeries to change the shape of their faces?

If they are “born that way” why do they have to schedule painful, unnecessary , and often, un-healable surgeries, removing healthy organs and substituting non-functional, artificial ones that have to maintained forever as “wound-care”?

If they are “born that way”, why do they have to continue taking “opposite” sex hormones for the rest of their lives, to maintain the illusion?

Finally, if people are “born that way”, why do they have to groom and manipulate children who weren’t “born that way” into thinking they were?

Just musing.

Sometimes I think too much.


14 posted on 01/05/2025 3:50:10 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: Libloather

TMI


15 posted on 01/05/2025 3:52:47 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: PGR88

Perhaps both.


16 posted on 01/05/2025 3:52:59 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: enumerated

Agreed.


17 posted on 01/05/2025 3:53:20 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather
Live fast, die young, and be a good-looking what the hell is that?
18 posted on 01/05/2025 4:08:12 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. the )
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To: Libloather
That's a bit of a day brightener. Who says all news is bad?

19 posted on 01/05/2025 4:19:11 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Libloather

Drag Race UK ?

This headline is about queers competing in women’s sports ?

EuroFags, geeze Louise, enough already.


20 posted on 01/05/2025 4:25:37 PM PST by OldHarbor
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