Drag performer Katya Zamolodchikova uses she/her pronouns in drag, but outside of drag, it often depends on the context, with he/him making sense for her male persona (Brian McCook), though she has expressed fluidity and identifying with she/her as a person, using they/them as well, and even recently adopted the name Katya May Honey and requested she/her for herself as a person.
Pronouns. She/Her (In Drag) He/Him (Out of Drag)
Brian Joseph McCook (born May 1, 1982), known by his drag persona Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova or Katya, is an American drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, podcaster, and comedian.
Russian speaking fish here, and I feel like it's important that everyone knows what Katya said in her speech. She said the Russian portion was "I have a carburetor outside that I just have to do some work on" (which, gold), but she actually says "я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое" which means "I'm a star - forever.
Trixie was confirmed to be non-binary, and use both she/her and they/them pronouns.
Gia Gunn is a transgender woman who publicly came out in 2017, identifying as female and undergoing hormone replacement therapy, embracing her authentic self beyond her drag persona. She has spoken openly about her transition, advocating for the trans community and sharing her journey from being a drag queen to living as the woman she always knew she was, even legally changing her name and gender markers.
Trixie and Katya's real first names are both Brian. UNHhhh was created after Katya and Trixie starred together in an episode of Fashion Photo Review. Their chemistry was met so positively by fans WOW Presents decided to give Katya and Trixie their own show.
There's no single "most beautiful" Russian girl's name, as beauty is subjective, but popular choices often combine lovely meanings with melodic sounds, like Sofia (wisdom), Anastasia (resurrection), Mila (gracious/dear), Alina (bright/beautiful), Tatiana (fairy queen), and Svetlana (light), with diminutives like Anya, Masha, and Natasha adding charm.
Condragulatons Bianca Del Rio is the winner of RuPaul's drag Race season 6.
Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Its Western counterpart is Catherine (Katherine). Notable people with the name can be found below.
Baby left RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 4 due to overwhelming anxiety and mental health struggles, finding the intense isolation and pressure of the competition environment detrimental to their well-being, leading them to prioritize self-care by voluntarily quitting the show after a lip-sync. They felt they needed to leave to preserve their mental health, even though it was a difficult decision, and have since used their experience to advocate for mental health awareness, notes Gay Times.
UNHhhh is an American comedy web series starring drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova. In the series, Trixie and Katya discuss a topic humorously in front of a green screen. UNHhhh premiered on March 25, 2016, one year after Mattel and Zamolodchikova appeared in the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Nonbinary Defined
Some people's gender changes over time. People whose gender is not male or female use many different terms to describe themselves, with nonbinary being one of the most common (sometimes spelled with a hyphen, as “non-binary”). Other terms include genderqueer, agender, bigender, genderfluid, and more.
The rising prominence of non-male drag queens and increased dialogue around inclusivity has resulted in many drag artists rejecting any distinction based on their gender and calling for drag competitions to remove all gender and assigned sex requirements for contestants.
The drag queen who famously competed with a colostomy bag is Tamisha Iman, a legendary performer from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13, who was battling Stage 3 colon cancer and used an ostomy bag to manage her health during the demanding competition. She became an icon for her resilience and talent, proving you can still be a fierce queen while managing a serious medical condition, notes Wikipedia.
Joseph "Joey" Gugliemelli, best known by the stage name Sherry Pie, is an American drag performer most known for being disqualified from the twelfth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
The two have been known for their individual careers as entertainers and often as a popular double act. They first met as contestants on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race and quickly became audience favourites, developing an even larger audience as they began to appear together in December 2015 on YouTube.
Rare Baby Girl Names
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a feminine Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life".
The number one girl name varies by location and year, but Olivia, Charlotte, and Amelia are consistently at the top in the U.S. and Australia for recent years, while Isla and Evelyn have claimed the top spots in other regions like the UK and Canberra for 2025 data.
The RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars winner and her longtime partner, David Silver, have broken up after 8 years of dating, Trixie announced Dec. 30. “It's not my favorite thing to bring up, but some of you have kind of figured it out and speculated for awhile,” she shared in a video posted on YouTube.
Trixie is the only RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 challenge winner to never Lip Sync For Your Legacy against BenDeLaCreme. Trixie is the first winner to never win a lipsync, both on her original season and on All Stars.
But did you know that the person behind Trixie Mattel is in fact Ojibwe from Wisconsin? Brian Firkus was born in Silver Cliff, Wisconsin, and comes from a mixed-race family; his father is white while his mother is Ojibwe.