Long before Drag Race, RuPaul popped up in The B-52’s Love Shack music video, his first-ever acting role.
Cindy Wilson, one of the band members, reflected on filming the video and how fun it was.
“That was a cool era for us, as well as a really hard time: the AIDS crisis, and losing so many friends back in the mid-’80s, in the early days of New York,” she told Billboard in 2017. “It was really wonderful, because it was love and friends, and there was a wonderful sense of coming together, being silly and hoping for the future. It was really special.”
