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Sasha Colby
Sasha Kekauoha (born July 26, 1984), best known by the stage name Sasha Colby, is an American drag performer and beauty pageant competitor. In 2012, she won the Miss Continental competition. In 2023, she was crowned the winner of season 15 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Sasha Colby was born in Waimānalo, Hawaii, as the youngest of seven children. She was raised in a conservative Jehovah's Witness household. As a teenager, she secretly did drag, locking herself in the bathroom and wearing her sister's clothes. The first transgender woman she met was her mother’s hairdresser, Tammy. Her father died by suicide in 2016.
Sasha Colby has been described as a "beauty queen", a "drag legend", and a "pageant legend". She won the Miss Continental competition in 2012.
In 2018, Sasha Colby was cast in Sasha Velour's drag showcase NightGowns and appeared in the stage show's 2020 docu-series. Alongside other drag queens, Sasha Colby walked the runway before Jennifer Lopez's performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards wearing a look inspired by Lopez. Chrissy Callahan of NBC News said Sasha Colby's look "channeled" the "Jenny from the Block" music video.
Sasha Colby is also known as a model and activist. In 2020, she represented Hawaii in GLAAD's video, which featured drag queens from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and sought to mobilize voters in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, she organized a monthly trans-inclusive event at The Chapel, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California.
In 2023, Sasha Colby was cast on the fifteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. She is the first-ever Native Hawaiian to be cast on Drag Race. She was crowned the winner of the season, earning the title of America's Next Drag Superstar and becoming the first winner of Polynesian descent. Later that year, Colby spoke at the annual Pride Month celebration hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris.
RuPaul was opposed to casting openly transgender women on the show until late 2018, despite casting closeted transgender women in previous seasons. Colby waited until she felt it was her time to audition for the show and told Vogue that winning during a year of vehement anti-transgender legislation was important to her. She is the second trans woman to win RuPaul's Drag Race (after Willow Pill) and fourth to win Drag Race globally, following Angele Anang on Drag Race Thailand (Season 2), Kylie Sonique Love on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Season 6), , and Vanessa Van Cartier on Drag Race Holland (Season 2), and preceding Captivating Katkat on Drag Race Philippines (Season 2). Following Van Cartier, Colby is the second Miss Continental winner to win a Drag Race season.
Sasha Colby is a trans woman. She is based in Los Angeles. She is the "drag mother" of season 14 contestant Kerri Colby and singer-songwriter Chappell Roan.
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Sasha Colby
Sasha Kekauoha (born July 26, 1984), best known by the stage name Sasha Colby, is an American drag performer and beauty pageant competitor. In 2012, she won the Miss Continental competition. In 2023, she was crowned the winner of season 15 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Sasha Colby was born in Waimānalo, Hawaii, as the youngest of seven children. She was raised in a conservative Jehovah's Witness household. As a teenager, she secretly did drag, locking herself in the bathroom and wearing her sister's clothes. The first transgender woman she met was her mother’s hairdresser, Tammy. Her father died by suicide in 2016.
Sasha Colby has been described as a "beauty queen", a "drag legend", and a "pageant legend". She won the Miss Continental competition in 2012.
In 2018, Sasha Colby was cast in Sasha Velour's drag showcase NightGowns and appeared in the stage show's 2020 docu-series. Alongside other drag queens, Sasha Colby walked the runway before Jennifer Lopez's performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards wearing a look inspired by Lopez. Chrissy Callahan of NBC News said Sasha Colby's look "channeled" the "Jenny from the Block" music video.
Sasha Colby is also known as a model and activist. In 2020, she represented Hawaii in GLAAD's video, which featured drag queens from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and sought to mobilize voters in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, she organized a monthly trans-inclusive event at The Chapel, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California.
In 2023, Sasha Colby was cast on the fifteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. She is the first-ever Native Hawaiian to be cast on Drag Race. She was crowned the winner of the season, earning the title of America's Next Drag Superstar and becoming the first winner of Polynesian descent. Later that year, Colby spoke at the annual Pride Month celebration hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris.
RuPaul was opposed to casting openly transgender women on the show until late 2018, despite casting closeted transgender women in previous seasons. Colby waited until she felt it was her time to audition for the show and told Vogue that winning during a year of vehement anti-transgender legislation was important to her. She is the second trans woman to win RuPaul's Drag Race (after Willow Pill) and fourth to win Drag Race globally, following Angele Anang on Drag Race Thailand (Season 2), Kylie Sonique Love on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Season 6), , and Vanessa Van Cartier on Drag Race Holland (Season 2), and preceding Captivating Katkat on Drag Race Philippines (Season 2). Following Van Cartier, Colby is the second Miss Continental winner to win a Drag Race season.
Sasha Colby is a trans woman. She is based in Los Angeles. She is the "drag mother" of season 14 contestant Kerri Colby and singer-songwriter Chappell Roan.