Eureka O'Hara

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Eureka O'Hara at an appearance in 2018

Eureka O'Hara (born 26 August 1990 in Johnson City as David Huggard ) is an American drag queen and singer . She became known through her participation in the ninth and tenth seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race , in the latter O'Hara reached second place.

Life

Huggard was born and raised in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA . The stage name Eureka O'Hara is derived both from the phonetic similarity to Ulrike, the first name of Huggard's mother, who came from Germany , and from Scarlett O'Hara , the main character in Gone With the Wind .

In March 2017, Huggard dropped out of drama, mass communication, and dance at East Tennessee State University for participating in RuPaul's Drag Race .

According to his own statements, Huggard lived as a trans woman for about five years , but decided on a detransition . In the present, Huggard does not see himself as male or female, but as genderqueer , i.e. non- binary , but does not necessarily claim to be designated in a gender-neutral way with the singular pronoun they (untranslatable in German), as is customary with non-binary people in English-speaking countries is, but according to his own statement uses all pronouns, but has no preference.

Huggard's main focus in drag performances is body positivity , which is why Huggard has given himself the nickname The Elephant Queen because of his own body shape . For this reason, the drag queen Divine is also a role model for Huggard, who, according to Huggard, was frank and self-confident and was able to overcome her insecurities due to her personal corpulent appearance with this fictional character, which is why Divine's character is a source of inspiration for Huggard's figure.

Career

As a drag queen

O'Hara performed regularly as a drag queen at Johnson City's New Beginnings bar at a young age . Her drag mother , a kind of mentor, is Jacqueline St. James , who won the 1993 Miss Gay USofA at Large national beauty pageant for more corpulent drag queens . 2012 O'Hara was at an imitator indoor competition of the organization Do not H8 that are nationally against bullying begins, to Miss Do not H8 DIVA named. She has also participated in other beauty pageants for drag queens in the past.

On February 2, 2017, O'Hara was named along with 13 other drag queens as a participant in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . She dropped out in the fifth episode because she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in a challenge called cheerleading in the second episode and was therefore no longer able to participate in the season.

Eureka O'Hara at Dragcon 2017

After a few months of physical therapy , O'Hara finally returned for the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race , which started on March 22, 2018. In this, O'Hara had to compete in the second and ninth episodes against a different participant in lipsync singing, as she was among the last two. With their victories, O'Hara was able to prevent an early elimination. O'Hara also won two of the eleven challenges . These were a role-playing game, in which she and her running mate Aquaria adult babies as a talk show represented -Guests and the task to build a drag-booth before live audiences, similar to the RuPaul's DragCon LA , an annual of RuPaul organized exhibition on drag Culture in Los Angeles . O'Hara moved into the final on June 28th and reached second place there together with competitor Kameron Michaels .

In September 2018, O'Hara directed actor Zachary Quinto for the Drag Me web series for LGBT online magazine Them. as a drag queen. On December 7th of the same year, O'Hara was a participant in RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular , a Christmas special of the show in which former candidates competed against each other in lipsync singing. RuPaul eventually declared them all winners.

Since April 23, 2020, O'Hara can be seen alongside Bob the Drag Queen and Shangela Laquifa Wadley in the We're Here series on HBO , in which the three residents of several small towns prepare to take part in nightly drag competitions.

In the music sector

On April 21, 2017, the day of her retirement from RuPaul's Drag Race , O'Hara's first single and music video was released. Body Positivity is a duet between her and the American actor and musician Adam Barta , whose other collaborations, for example with Alana Thompson or Margaret Cho , became an internet phenomenon. Also featured in the video are Charlie Hides and Cynthia Lee Fontaine , who also took part in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . Two days later, O'Hara presented a solo single called Stomp .

In March 2018 a kind of "sequel" of Body Positivity called Body Positivity (part ii: Electropoint) was published, on which O'Hara and Barta worked together again. On the occasion of the last challenge of the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race , Eureka O'Hara, Aquaria, Kameron Michaels and Asia O'Hara could be heard with their own verses on RuPaul's single American , which reached twelfth place in the dance / electronic songs . On June 28, O'Hara's second solo single, The Big Girl , was released. In July she played the lead role in the music video for the song For You by country artist Brandon Stansell . In November, Eureka O'Hara and Manila Luzon , who participated in the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race , starred in the song Where My Man At by indie singer VELO . In addition to the two, the participants of the seventh, eighth and ninth season Ginger Minj , Thorgy Thor and Trinity Taylor can be seen in the music video .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2017: RuPaul's Drag Race (participant in season 9, retired due to injury)
  • 2017: Todrick (TV series, episode 1x9)
  • 2018: RuPaul's Drag Race (participant in season 10, second place)
  • 2018: Whatcha Packin '(TV series, episode 5x16)
  • 2018: RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular (participant, winner)
  • 2018: Eureka's a Poet and Didn't Know It (TV series)
  • 2018–2019: The Pit Stop (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2019: RuPaul's Drag Race (guest appearance episode 11x1)
  • 2020: AJ and the Queen (TV series, episode 1x1)
  • since 2020: We're Here (TV series)

Web links

Commons : Eureka O'Hara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME O'Hara, Eureka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huggard, David (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drag queen and singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Johnson City , Tennessee