Even among A-listers, TikTok star Kelon is his own icon
RuPaul gave Jimmy Fallon a heart attack with the words “Drag queen?!” has an interviewer been so shook.“I’m kidding!” he assures.
Cue exhalation and laughter.“It’s really cool to be able to put people that identify with you or I on the forefront, so that people can see that there’s someone to relate to,” he says of his Visionary Voices spot. “I feel like people are always searching for people to relate with to feel like they’re not alone.”Despite his own identity, his most famed character, Terri Joe, is a devout Christian faux-white woman who’s quick to condemn any “homoseggshuh” activity.
The character, who he says is inspired by True Blood‘s own resident homophobe Sarah Newlin, has somehow garnered a massive fanbase of the very same community at whom she thumps her bible.“It’s the juxtaposition of me saying that I’m something but clearly being something else and the wild things that I say as the character,” he explains. “I think that’s what draws people.
It’s such shock value.”“Shock” is an understatement: just last month, during a hilariously heated Live with a couple of other Black folks, a guest brought up Dr.
