RuPaul's Drag Race gets its first Pasifika contestant in Brita Filter — but she's 'anything but pure'

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Meet Brita Filter, the first Polynesian Princess to compete on the hit reality television program RuPaul's Drag Race.

And as you would expect from a competition that pits drag queens against each other in a series of sewing, modelling and performance challenges, some of that representation is coming through in Brita's outfit choices.

"It's so great now that I can put Tonga on the map, and people will be like 'Oh, you're Tongan, just like Brita'," she said. "Before the first show of Drag Race my mum gave me these little pebbles she found in Hawaii and wrote this really beautiful note, half in Tongan, to give my sisters on the show to spread the Polynesian love," she said.Some of that love seems to be cutting through with the show's audience — since being announced on the show in the"Meet the Queens" preview, Brita says queer Pacific Islanders have already begun reaching out to her.

"They tell me I'm giving them the courage to try drag and I'm so grateful to be that light and that love, because, within the Polynesian community, that's what we do.

 

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