{"id":54400,"date":"2024-01-23T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=54400"},"modified":"2024-01-23T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:51:37","slug":"an-alternative-guide-to-manila-by-its-unofficial-queen-manila-luzon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=54400","title":{"rendered":"An Alternative Guide to Manila by Its Unofficial Queen, Manila Luzon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila-1-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila-1-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s in a name? If you\u2019re a drag queen, the answer is quite a lot. And while some drag names may be nonsensical at best (yes, we\u2019re looking at you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heidincloset\/\"><strong>Heidi N Closet<\/strong>!<\/a>), others are clever and filled with meaning. Like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/manilaluzon\/?hl=en\">Manila Luzon<\/a><\/strong>, a name chosen by a performer who takes colossal pride in her Asian heritage; a name that pays homage to her mother and grandmother, their hometown of Manila, and Luzon, the island on which it sits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as drag legends go, they don\u2019t get much bigger or more iconic than Manila Luzon. Born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to a Filipina mother and an American father, Luzon has competed on three seasons of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/slideshow\/rupauls-drag-race-best-fashion-moments\"><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-7-cast-recreates-vogue-covers\"><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars<\/em><\/a>, toured the world, appeared in countless TV shows and recorded more music videos than <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> has had bad breakups. Now, she is going it alone, starring as the Drag Lord of\u00a0<em><strong>Drag Den<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0a new drag competition, made \u201cby Filipinos, for Filipinos\u201d\u2014the first season of which was nominated for two Asian Academy Creative Awards (with Manila Luzon taking home the trophy in her category as Best Entertainment Host) while the second is set to premiere globally on Amazon Prime next week. (Read the rest on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/manila-luzon-guide-to-manila-philippines?goal=0_fb57ec5ec0-b6e4e58670-103768393&amp;mc_cid=b6e4e58670&amp;mc_eid=bd9e82a6f9\"> VOGUE.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2-560x840.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/manila2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s in a name? If you\u2019re a drag queen, the answer is quite a lot. And while some drag names may be nonsensical at best (yes, we\u2019re looking at you, Heidi N Closet!), others are clever and filled with meaning. Like Manila Luzon, a name chosen by a performer who takes colossal pride in her [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[9526,1621,8563,2400,3387,8323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54404,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54400\/revisions\/54404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}