INTERVIEW/Nymphia Wind blows into RuPaul's Drag Race as the First Taiwanese Queen
12/22/2023 04:47 PM
With sunglasses stacked in her hair piled high, Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅瘋) swept onto the stage and made her debut as the first Taiwanese drag queen to feature in the internationally acclaimed Ru Paul's Drag Race.
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