Ginger Minj Is a True All-Star at Logo’s Trailblazer Honors

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The BET Awards wasn’t the only show staging moving musical tributes this past weekend. Saturday night, on Logo’s Trailblazer Honors, RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Alaska 5000, Alyssa Edwards, Phi Phi O’Hara, Tatiana, and Ginger Minj performed “I Am What I Am” from Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage aux Folles, as a surprise salute to Broadway legend and LGBT advocate Fierstein, one of this year’s Trailblazer honorees.

All five queens will compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 2, but Ginger – whose debut album, described to Yahoo Music’s Reality Rocks as “if you took Jennifer Holliday and Meat Loaf and put them together and they had some sort of weird musical theater baby,” comes out this fall – was the true all-star of this spectacular performance. Tapping into her extensive theater background, Ginger stunned with her powerhouse vocals, charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent onstage at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. (Watch the all-stars’ entire “I Am What I Am” musical number on LogoTV.com.)

Ginger currently resides in Orlando, the city whose recent Pulse nightclub shooting tragedy was understandably the focus of much of the Trailblazer telecast. Earlier in the evening, RuPaul himself gave a poignant speech, proclaiming: “We are once again reminded that the fight for civil rights is neverending, but we won’t let the darkest recesses of human nature extinguish the light and hope and love we feel in our soul. As gay people we get to choose our families. My chosen family includes millions of brave men and women across this country and around the world. Don’t f— with my family.” Ru’s passionate words were followed by a moment of silence for Orlando.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 2 premieres on Logo August 25.

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