If at first you don't succeed, try again the following year. That's the message we can all take from Sasha Velour. She was rejected as a possible contestant for the eighth series of 'Drag Race.' The following year she came back, tried again, entered the competition and won. That was just the start of the fame story for Velour, who has used the platform to break into the fashion industry. She was one of the models chosen to appear for 'Opening Ceremony' at New York's Fashion Week in 2018.
In truth, Velour had been doing wonderful things for the gay scene long before 'Drag Race,' both in character and under her real name of Alexander Hedges Steinberg. Steinberg is a hugely gifted artist and illustrator who once created a series of comics based on the Stonewall riots, as well as having work exhibited in a solo gallery in Brooklyn's Black Box Gallery.