“Reinas unidas jamás serán vencidas”: Drag queens in the Iberian Spanish voice-over of RuPaul’s Drag Race

RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009 – present) is an American reality television programme launched by RuPaul Charles, which has turned drag queens into a mainstream phenomenon. After briefly analysing the controversial figure of queen in light Judith Butler’s performative turn, as well lingo following Keith Harvey’s framework for identifying camp talk, this research aims at investigating European Spanish voice-over Seasons 8 (2016), 9 (2017) and 10 (2018). This work seeks primarily to analyse choices that are made target text characterise localised version available on Netflix. The translation procedures mentioned study partly adapted from Ranzato’s (2015) classification culture-specific references. analysis focuses mainly creative rendering (semi-)homophony, terms, references pop culture grammatical gender.