Pre-destiny came to pass when RuPaul went high femme in the late ’80s. In the video for the B-52s song “Love Shack,” she appears with an Afro and a smoky eye, dressed in a bustier and hot pants.

Ru later appeared in the music video for “Love Shack,” and the band appeared on Drag Race to judge the cheerleading challenge that injured Eureka. In which Karen Black is “terrorized by a ...