Best printers for Home

Best Mixer Grinder

Best wired Earphones

Best 43 Inch TV in India

Best Wi Fi Routers

Best Home Theatre in India

Smart Watch under 5000

Best Laptops for Education

Best Laptop for Students

<ul class="summary-list"><li>British broadcaster ITV announced this week that it has postponed the filming of reality-dating series "<keyword id="4098983" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Love-Island">Love Island</keyword>" due to the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> pandemic, potentially causing distress to sponsors reliant on the show.</li><li>Previously, <keyword id="6354851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="retail">retail</keyword> brands such as ISawItFirst, <keyword id="4275684" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="boohoo">Boohoo</keyword>, <keyword id="2084602" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Missguided">Missguided</keyword>, and <keyword id="173091" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Superdrug">Superdrug</keyword> saw significant increases in profits through sponsorships by heavily promoting make-up products and clothing featured on the reality series.</li><li>According to GlobalData, nearly half of those who watched went on to buy a product after seeing it advertised on screen. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>British reality-dating series "Love Island" has been put on hold until 2021 due to the <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">Covid-19</keyword> pandemic, and analysts say it could spell trouble for partner retailers who capitalized on the show through collaborations.</p><p>"Many retailers targeting 16-24s will have been banking on their "Love Island" partnerships drawing in new customers this summer and will be left wondering how they can replicate the huge awareness boost that the program brings," Sofie Willmott, lead analyst at GlobalData, told Business Insider.</p><p>British beauty retailer Superdrug and fast fashion chains such as ISawItFirst, Missguided, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/boohoo?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Boohoo</a> are among the brands that held sponsorship deals with the show. These fashion retailers have previously been able to cash in on the success of the show through marketing opportunities and social media deals.</p><p>Contestants on the show would don the latest collections from sponsor brands and as a result, this helped boost profits for retailers through the vast influence "Love Island" had on its viewers' shopping choices.</p><p>Since the show's launch, 4.8 million people watched the first episode of Love Island, <a href="https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/love-island-launches-most-watched-tv-show-year-young-people">according</a> to ITV's seven-day consolidated figures.</p><p>According to a <a href="https://www.retail-insight-network.com/comment/love-island-retailers/">report</a> on "Love Island's" retail partnerships, searches on eBay for a "yellow playsuit" clothing item rose 276% after the show's former host Caroline Flack wore one during a premiere event.</p><p>Willmott said that the partner retailers were "wise to get involved...given that almost half of 16-24 year olds watched an episode of Love Island in 2019 and of those who watched, 45.3% bought a product after seeing it on an advert by one of the brands sponsoring the show."</p><p>However, retailers who planned to sponsor the show may also be relieved to save on costs of participating, Willmott said, as 2020 marketing budgets have been slashed in lieu of the pandemic.</p><p>"Although Love Island could have boosted brand awareness at a time when UK consumers were potentially ready to spend again, it is looking unlikely they will be buying much swimwear and sun-cream this year given holidays abroad are in doubt," she said.</p><p>ITV said in a statement that logistical difficulties made it impossible to film the seventh season of the TV program, which is usually filmed over several weeks in a Spanish villa. The series format is designed to involve a group of contestants, known as Islanders, who live under video-surveillance in isolation from the outside world in Mallorca and must be coupled up to survive the show.</p><p>"In normal circumstances, we would be preparing very soon to travel out to the location in Mallorca to get the villa ready but clearly that's now out of the question," Kevin Lygo, director of television at ITV, said <a href="https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv2s-love-island-moved-2021">in a statement</a> on Monday. </p>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/love-island-cancelled-2020-fast-fashion-retailers-hit-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Fast-fashion retailers advertising on the widely popular British show 'Love Island' are expected to take a hit in sales after TV boss confirms series cancellation

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rebecca Newenham, 50, didn't want to return to the corporate world and became a <keyword id="12911491" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="virtual-assistant" source="Orion">virtual assistant</keyword>.</li><li>She expanded and now has 50 virtual assistants in Britain and Spain.</li></ul><p><em>This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Rebecca Newenham, the founder of the virtual-assistant franchise Get Ahead. It has been edited for length and clarity.</em></p><p>In 2010, after an eight-year career break to have children, I decided to go back to work.</p><p>I had been a buyer for Superdrug and Sainsbury's but never particularly felt at home in a corporate environment. I craved more flexibility.</p><p>My mum ran a tutorial agency when I was younger and used to work from home. She inspired me to look at what other roles were out there that could give me the same flexibility. I did a lot of research, and when someone mentioned I should consider being a virtual assistant, it immediately appealed to me.</p><p>I loved the entrepreneurial spirit, and I liked the idea of being my own boss. The VA industry was already well established in the US, but the term was still relatively new to the UK. I found a one-day training course in London on how to set up as a virtual assistant.</p><p>Over eight hours we learned about the breadth of support you can offer, how to find clients, how you can work with clients, and the best ways to market yourself.</p><h2>By September 2010 I'd launched Get Ahead</h2><p>I'd seen that some people were using their own name as their company name, but thanks to my marketing background I knew from the start I needed to create a brand.</p><p>I started the company with a secondhand laptop, a printer, and a handful of cash I could use for networking. I turned my spare room into an office and painted my logo on the wall.</p><p>I used word of mouth to advertise. A friend of a mum from my children's school introduced me to someone who ran a networking group. It morphed into my first proper paid client. I provided admin services for them.</p><p>Then an online business asked if I could do some link building. I remember sitting at a small desk by the window, wrapped in a cardigan, as it was really chilly, but feeling really satisfied I was running my own business while my daughters were at school.</p><p>For the first couple of years I worked on my own, as I needed to understand what the role entailed, but I knew that if I wanted the business to scale quickly, I needed to move from delivery to sales. By March 2011 I started to hire virtual assistants to support me. I initially operated a telephone-answering service for clients in-house, but by January 2015 I outsourced this to a phone-answering company in Glasgow.</p><p>The VAs I contracted specialized in diary management. Then I took on experts in Excel and social media. Our social-media department grew dramatically, as this is where clients needed a lot of help. They were on the wrong platform for their business or struggling with consistency.</p><p>We hired both male and female VAs, but the majority were mums seeking flexibility. Clients pay from £30 to £35 an hour for their assistance.</p><p>By 2015 we had clients based all over the UK, and I started to look at how we could grow the business even more. As I was the person in charge of generating sales, I now needed someone to support me.</p><p>I found a woman in Bristol on Twitter who was looking for freelance work. A former marketing person herself, she was keen to trial the company for me in her region.</p><p>She took our business cards and leaflets and started promoting Get Ahead.</p><p>Around the same time, I'd gone to an exhibition and won a session with a franchise consultant.</p><h2>The consultant showed me that Get Ahead had a framework which could be franchised</h2><p>We were established and had shown there was demand for our support elsewhere in the UK. It took 18 months to do the legal work and create a go-to manual for franchisees that discussed everything from how to manage clients to what the Get Ahead office needed to look like.</p><p>My first franchisee was one of our VAs in Hampshire who wanted to take on her own business. We now have nine regional hubs across the UK. The majority are based in the UK, but we also have a VA in Spain, and in September 2021 we sold our first franchise in Australia.</p><p>Unlike our competitors, our franchisees don't do any delivery — they match the client to our database of 50 VAs.</p><h2>We helped our clients switch to a virtual world in 2020</h2><p>When the pandemic hit, we developed a Zoom-facilitation service for those who were running conferences, and one of our VAs who works with a team of actuaries helped them transition from their central London office to working from home.</p><p>She has become so valuable to them that it looks as if they're now going to employ her. It's not unusual for clients to want to hire our VAs. I'm always sad to lose amazing staff, but I take pride when it happens in some ways.</p><p>We've proved to someone they've got that need, and we've also proved we have got the ability to find the right person.</p><p>My role now is to grow the Get Ahead brand. When I'm not meeting franchisees or attending networking groups or workshops for brand or my own personal development, I am accepting invitations to take part in podcasts and talk about Get Ahead.</p><p>I love spreading the word of <keyword id="12059791" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="flexible-working" source="Orion">flexible working</keyword> and empowering people to have a second or third career.</p><p>I probably work more hours now than when I was in a corporate role. When I was in a corporate role, I could switch my computer off at the end of the day.</p><p>Now I don't totally switch off. But it's much more positive; I don't mind thinking about work. However, I try to make sure I don't work in the evening — at 7 p.m., I am in my boxing class.</p>

I loved being a virtual assistant so much that I started my own franchise for others. Here's how I did it.

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/macnolete/2600790174">Macnolete/flickr</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Some people want their significant other to divulge how many sexual partners they've had, while others would rather keep that information under wraps.</p><p>But those who choose to share may be curious to know how their numbers "line up" with others - and whether the amount of sex partners they've had would be considered ideal.</p><p>And now, a new survey of 2,000 adults in the U.S. and Europe from <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a> has revealed that men and women believe the ideal number of sexual partners a person should have in their lifetime is around seven.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>To be specific, female respondents reported that they felt 7.5 was the ideal number, while men said that 7.6 was the ideal figure.</p><p>Furthermore, female survey participants said that they consider a person who has had 15 or more partners to be "too promiscuous," while men think people who have had 14 or more partners are promiscuous.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Female survey respondents reported having an average of seven sexual partner themselves, compared with 6.4 partners for male participants.</p><p>Additionally, nearly 90% of female respondents and 88% of male respondents said a person should disclose the number of sexual partners they've had to someone they're dating.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Around 30% of both genders said the figure should be revealed within the first month of dating, while close to 35% said the figure should be disclosed in the first one to four months.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>And if they think their significant other has had too many sexual partners, only 30% said they might break up with the person. In contrast, if they think the person hasn't had enough partners, only 8% said they would consider breaking up.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/whats-your-number/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">Superdrug Online Doctor</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/baby-photography-isnt-as-easy-as-it-looks-2016-7">Baby photography isn't as easy as it looks</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="ttbmZvNDE6zstMlg66hrwl05m8yUYWlC" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Here's what men and women say are the ideal number of sex partners

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="16377" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Drew-Barrymore">Drew Barrymore</keyword> tapped her 7-year-old daughter Olive Barrymore Kopelman to photograph her for the cover of The Sunday Times Style magazine, the 45-year-old revealed in an Instagram post on Sunday. </li><li>After sharing behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot and publishing her conversation with her daughter, Barrymore posted the magazine cover, which she called a "family affair."</li><li>"My daughter Olive took the photos, because at this moment in time, we are all getting innovative and inventive about how we do things!" she wrote.</li><li>Barrymore continued, "As I said to her.. 'This is an opportunity!' We all are seeing things differently and that translates into the execution of life!!"</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/category/drew-barrymore">Drew Barrymore</a>'s 7-year-old daughter Olive Barrymore Kopelman took her cover photo for <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drew-barrymore-on-the-importance-of-letting-go-gglkxzr0x">The Sunday Times Style magazine</a>, the 45-year-old explained in an Instagram post on Sunday. </p><p>The "50 First Dates" actress shared a series of behind-the-scenes pictures from the mother-daughter photo shoot, which took place outdoors on the beach and in greenery. </p><p>She also published her conversation asking Olive to serve as the photographer for a magazine that "people work for years to shoot for."</p><p>"Why are you asking me to shoot you mom? And who normally shoots you?" she recalled her daughter asking her. </p><p>Barrymore said she replied, "A photographer. But right now, the world is in a crazy place. Everything is an opportunity to do things differently! So what do you say? Do you want to be my photographer?" </p><p>Olive accepted, leading the actress to jokingly ask her daughter not to snap photos from angles that make it look like she has "NO chin."</p><p>Barrymore also explained that the magazine initially had a different cover in mind but said the shoot turned into an "even more involved and personal piece."</p><p>Shortly after, the actress shared the Sunday Times Style magazine cover, which features the photos that Olive captured of her mother. </p><p>"I'm very proud of this very personal piece and very grateful to @sundaytimeslorraine and the whole team at the @theststyle for allowing us to make this a true family affair!!!!!" she wrote. </p><p>Barrymore continued, "My daughter Olive took the photos, because at this moment in time, we are all getting innovative and inventive about how we do things! As I said to her.. 'This is an opportunity!' We all are seeing things differently and that translates into the execution of life!!"</p><p>Other magazines, such as Vogue Italia and i-D, have also <a href="https://www.insider.com/bella-hadid-facetime-photo-vogue-italia-during-quarantine-fashion-magazines-2020-4">adjusted to remote photo shoots while stay-at-home orders are in place</a>. </p><p>Barrymore shares Olive and Frankie Barrymore Kopelman, 5, with her ex-husband Will Kopelman, <a href="https://www.etonline.com/drew-barrymore-reflects-on-her-divorce-from-ex-will-kopelman-its-not-always-easy-116292">whom she separated from in 2016</a>.</p><p>Prior to the magazine photo shoot, the actress <a href="https://www.insider.com/drew-barrymore-cried-every-day-homeschooling-kids-2020-4">opened up about the realities of homeschooling her children</a> as her family self-isolates together during an episode of the "Today Show," admitting that she's "cried every day, all day long."</p><p>She explained that everything was going well with her children until homeschooling began — similar to <keyword id="6412373" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="celebrities">celebrities</keyword> like Justin Timberlake, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/justin-timberlake-son-parenting-social-distancing-comments-backlash-2020-4">said that "24-hour parenting is just not human,"</a> and Jennifer Lopez, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/jennifer-lopez-struggles-with-her-kids-math-homework-while-homeschooling-2020-4">explained she struggled with her kids' math homework</a>. </p><p>"It was like every church and state, it was the messiest plate I've ever held in my life. I had to be the teacher, the parent, the disciplinarian, the caretaker," Barrymore said, adding, "I didn't think I needed to respect and appreciate teachers any more than I did."</p>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/drew-barrymore-daughter-took-magazine-cover-photo-sunday-times-2020-4">Insider</a>

Drew Barrymore's 7-year-old daughter photographed her magazine cover photo, and the pictures are super professional

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><strong>The <keyword id="79969" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="insider">INSIDER</keyword> Summary:</strong><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>  The Miss Universe pageant is 64 years old.</strong><br><strong>  <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/evolution-miss-universe/">Superdrug Online Doctor tracked</a>&#xa0;the evolution of winner's body types.<br>  It's a&#xa0;glimpse of how our&#xa0;perception of beauty has evolved over&#xa0;the years.<br>  While American women have gotten heavier, Miss Universe has stayed the same.</br></br></strong></br></p><p><br>The 64 year-old Miss Universe pageant is one of the most publicized beauty pageants in the world. What started in 1952 as a marketing stunt by a California clothing company is now held in over 100 countries worldwide and watched by over six million people, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/miss-universe-ratings-lower-in-2015-versus-2014-2015-12">according to Nielsen ratings</a>.<span>&#xa0;</span></br></p><p>It also offers a fascinating glimpse into how our perception of beauty has evolved over more than six decades.</p><p><span>UK-based <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/evolution-miss-universe/"><span>Superdrug Online Doctor tracked</span></a></span><span>&#xa0;the evolution of Miss Universe winner's body types since the contest started in 1952 using all of the publicly available pictures, height, and weight measurements the team could find and compared them with the average height and weight of women in the United States aged 20 to 29 (based on&#xa0;Center for Disease Control data).</span></p><p><span>The average age of a Miss Universe winner is 20.4 years old, but the contestants can be anywhere from 18 years old&#xa0;to 27 years old.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>"</span><span>We chose to examine Miss Universe because it's such a long-standing tradition around the world," Adina Antonucci, wrote to us&#xa0;in an email. "In recent years, we've seen an increase in body image awareness that has sparked important conversations about the unrealistic standards of beauty."</span></p><p>The team discovered that not only did the women's body types change with the fads of the times - think fuller hips in the 1950s and fit, gym-sculpted bodies of the 1980s - but that <strong>while the average American woman got heavier, Miss Universe has only gotten thinner.</strong></p><p><span>"1990 marked a milestone," the study reads. "The average BMI for a woman in the US moved from a normal BMI to overweight […] At the same time, the average BMI for a Miss Universe contestant dipped into the underweight ran</span><span>ge."</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Though <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/bmi-misclassifies-health-of-75-million-in-us-2016-2">BMI is not an indicator of h</a></span><span><a href="http://www.techinsider.io/bmi-misclassifies-health-of-75-million-in-us-2016-2">ealth</a> or body type and Superdrug Online Doctor did not always know the exact weight of each winner, the available body measurements still show a disparity between what the average woman looked like versus what the pageant contestants looked like.</span></p><p><span><span>Superdrug Online Doctor</span> even made a GIF of the winners from 1952 to today. <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/services/widgets/evolution-miss-universe/miss-universe-morph.mp4">You can watch the full GIF here</a>.</span></p><p><span>The study also found that while the average height of the American woman has stayed constant at around 5'4'', the desired height of the Miss Universe winner has climbed three to five inches over the course of the pageant's history.</span></p><p><span>For comparison, Miss Universe 2015 winner Pia Wurtzbach is over four inches taller than the average American woman.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>While the pageant claims that the winners must have intelligence and poise in order to handle the demands of their title - which range from <a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/60557-what-does-miss-universe-win-her-prize-is-basically-a-full-time-job">charity work to extensive travel</a> - <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/09/13/a-miss-universe-judge-tells-all/#34ba8b797646">a former judge told Forbes in 2011</a> that the actual winner is decided based on her looks alone. "It's all about beauty," he said.</span></p><p><span>And trying to emulate these gorgeous winners can have a </span><span>negative effect on women's perceptions of themselves, Antonucci said.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>"Worldwide, women and girls are struggling to conform to the ideals represented in these internationally recognized competitions," she&#xa0;said.</span></p><p><span>The competition has also waned in popularity in recent years. In 2015, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/miss-universe-ratings-lower-in-2015-versus-2014-2015-12">viewership was down to 6.2 million</a>, which was much less than 2014's 7.7 million total viewers.&#xa0;</span><span>To read the full</span><span>&#xa0;findings, <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/evolution-miss-universe/"><span>click here</span></a>.</span></p><p><em>Note: This post was originally published in 2015.</em></p><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pizzeria-turned-a-beloved-mexican-street-food-into-pizza-2017-1">This pizzeria turned a beloved Mexican street food into pizza</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="ozMnB5ODE6N1FpqKZ2qNL5j3EJSBfbJI" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div></hr>

The evolution of Miss Universe winners' body types from 1952 to now

<div type="image" title="Photos of Gottmik, Kerri Colby, RuPaul, Jasmine Kennedie and Willow Pill lead 2x1" height="1167" width="2334" msid="92416023" hostid="261"></div><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/we-us-ours-lgbtq-communities-and-queer-spaces"></a></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>The Emmy-winning show "RuPaul's Drag Race" has encouraged a new generation of LGBTQ+ fans to come out.</li><li>The casting of Gottmik, the drag persona of the first trans man to compete, was a "watershed" moment, an academic said.</li></ul><p>Brandon Austin struggled with feeling different in high school.</p><p>"I wasn't myself at all. Nobody was gay, and I was an easy target for bullies. I felt abnormal," he told Insider. "Then, at 16, my best friend introduced me to 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'"</p><p>Austin, a 20-year-old from Kent, England, is one of many young LGBTQ+ people whose coming-out story involves "<a href="https://www.insider.com/rupauls-drag-race-2019-1">RuPaul's Drag Race</a>."</p><p>"Without 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I wouldn't have had the confidence to come out as gay," Austin told Insider. "I think I'd still be a few years away from coming out."</p><p>The Emmy-winning reality show, broadcast on VH1 and Paramount+ in the US, follows RuPaul Charles' search for "America's next drag superstar." It's been described as "<a href="https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/rupaul-drag-race-contestants-season-all-stars-ranked">the closest gay culture gets to a sports league</a>."</p><p>Throughout its 14 seasons — and numerous spin-offs — it has shed light on issues important to LGBTQ+ communities, such as <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/slay-stigma-hiv-drag-queen-rupaul-twisted-element-1.5311140">HIV</a>, <a href="https://www.dailyxtra.com/sober-drag-queens-addiction-179896">substance use</a>, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/rupauls-drag-race-first-openly-trans-male-contestant-gottmik">transgender identities</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jujubeefans/posts/i-only-had-my-parents-until-i-was-15-my-father-died-and-the-same-year-my-mother-/10153068215605027/">family abandonment</a>, and <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2017/04/28/rupauls-drag-race-peppermint-coming-out/">coming out</a>.</p><p>It has also brought the art of female impersonation into the mainstream.</p><p>Drag's place in the zeitgeist means that more young LGBTQ+ people watching the show have visible queer icons they can look up to. This representation is significant for many <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-is-smartphone-generation-2019-7">Gen Zers</a> who have grown up with the show over its 12 years. For several, it has been integral to their being out and proud about their identities.</p><p>"Seeing people being accepted for who they are made me realize that I am normal," Austin told Insider.</p><h2>'It helped me to accept myself'</h2><p>By day, Austin works in an Amazon warehouse. By night, he moonlights as a "glitterific" drag queen called Sophia Stardust.</p><p>Austin, who has been performing as Sophia Stardust for four years, credited the show with helping him to embrace his sexuality and giving him the confidence to pursue drag.</p><div type="image" title="teenage drag queen" height="360" width="480" msid="92416026" hostid="261"></div><p>Austin had grown up with little exposure to gay <keyword id="11899151" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="culture" source="Orion">culture</keyword>. But "RuPaul's Drag Race" was a revelation.</p><p>"I was living in an area where all I saw was straight people," he said. "Then, watching this show, I saw a new world — a world where people were getting recognition and praise for existing as these magical creatures.</p><p>"It helped me to accept myself," he continued. "Shortly after, I came out as gay. Then a week after that, I got a cheap wig from my neighbor's attic, bought some Superdrug makeup, and got into drag for the very first time."</p><div type="image" title="drag queen uk teenager" height="360" width="480" msid="92416031" hostid="261"></div><h2>'I'd definitely still be struggling with my gender identity'</h2><p>Like Austin, 17-year-old Neptune is thankful for "RuPaul's Drag Race's" role in their coming-out story.</p><p>The nonbinary drag queen, who was assigned female at birth, said they became confident after being introduced to the show.</p><p>"Without 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I probably wouldn't be calling myself nonbinary," they said. "I'd definitely still be struggling with my gender identity."</p><div type="image" title="neptune teenage drag queen" height="360" width="480" msid="92416033" hostid="261"></div><p>Neptune began watching the show when they were 11 years old. At first, they said, they thought drag was "just for men."</p><p>After watching a few seasons of the show, Neptune went to Pride Glasgow, Scotland's largest LGBTQ+ festival, where they met a drag queen for the first time.</p><p>"I found out from them that there were loads of AFAB and gender-nonconforming queens," Neptune said. "This gave me the confidence to start doing drag myself."</p><p>They said the show introduced them to a world that allowed them to explore their gender. Neptune came out as nonbinary this year.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tomboyx-cofounder-built-inclusive-gender-neutral-clothing-brand-2020-11">LGBTQ customers spend $917 billion a year on brands they care about. Here's how the cofounder of the inclusive clothing line TomboyX harnessed her strict upbringing to build a beloved business with her wife.</a></em></p><p>"'Drag Race' was a huge inspiration and was my entry into a community," Neptune told Insider. "My life would be very different without the show."</p><p>One queen who Neptune said was an important part of their journey is Gottmik, the drag persona of 24-year-old Kade Gottlieb, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/rupauls-drag-race-first-openly-trans-male-contestant-gottmik">the first trans man cast on the show</a>.</p><p>"Having Gottmik on the show is incredibly important," they said. "Casting trans queens introduces and normalizes transness."</p><h2>Gottlieb, aka Gottmik, is the first trans man to compete on the show</h2><p>Gottmik broadened the show's scope of what constitutes a drag queen.</p><p>Gottlieb was the show's first transgender man to compete, its first queen to be assigned female at birth, and its first contestant to have had top surgery, a procedure that trans men can undergo to remove breast tissue.</p><p>For many of the show's fans, Gottmik's casting was a major turning point.</p><div type="image" title="gottmik drag race rupaul" height="1724" width="2299" msid="92416035" hostid="261"></div><p>In 2018, RuPaul <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/08/rupaul-drag-race-transgender-performers-diversity">said he would "probably not" include trans women</a> on the show. The host <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8232231/rupaul-responds-backlash-hurtful-comments/">eventually backtracked</a>, but the comment has consistently been criticized as exclusionary and transphobic.</p><p>Since then, numerous trans women have appeared on the show.</p><p>Season 14, which aired this year, included five trans contestants. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté and Kerri Colby were out when they entered the workroom, with fellow contestants Bosco, Jasmine Kennedie, and Willow Pill opening up about their identities during or after the season's filming.</p><p>Nonbinary contestants have also appeared on the show. And in the third season of the UK spinoff "RuPaul's Drag Race UK," a cisgender woman — Victoria Scone — was featured.</p><p>But Gottmik's inclusion in Season 13 represented a seismic shift, marking a widening net of who can compete.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sephora-inclusivity-lesson-viral-incident-sza-2020-2">Sephora's VP of marketing explains what a viral incident with the musician SZA taught the company about inclusivity</a></em></p><p>In Gottmik's first appearance on the show, the drag queen <a href="https://www.them.us/story/gottmik-discusses-top-surgery-pronouns-ru-pauls-drag-race-season-13">spoke frankly about experiencing gender dysphoria</a> and having had top surgery. Pronouns were also discussed: "She" in drag, "he" out of drag.</p><p>"Coming out on the episode and talking about gender dysphoria and top surgery was weird for me. I don't even talk about it with my friends," Gottlieb told Insider. "At first, I felt a little bit concerned about my family and how they were going to react to seeing it on TV for the first time.</p><p>"But I took a step back and realized this is a real moment for trans people. Trans people go through dysphoria and have top-surgery moments," he added. "I just had to own it, kill it, and be honored to have such a platform."</p><p>Gottlieb said he recognized that his being on the show could validate someone's journey to feeling secure in their gender identity.</p><p>"I have the most amount of messages I could have ever imagined from young trans guys wanting to explore drag but who are worried it might invalidate their gender or people might look at them in some sort of way," he said. "Seeing that I helped them realize that drag is just an art form, not a gender, is so amazing for me to see."</p><h2>'Representation matters'</h2><p>Gottmik's casting was profound for many young <keyword id="11911085" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lgbtq" source="Orion">LGBTQ</keyword> people and particularly trans people, Katie Horowitz, an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at Davidson College, told Insider in 2021.</p><p>"Gottmik's casting is a watershed moment," Horowitz said. "To see somebody who was assigned female who then transitioned to identifying as a man performing as a woman is an incredibly new and groundbreaking conversation."</p><div type="image" title="GOTTMIK drag race us season 13" height="1000" width="1333" msid="92416037" hostid="261"></div><p>"I think exposure to this sort of thing normalizes both queerness and being transgender to little kids," Horowitz said. "Now kids growing up will see people play with gender, and that affirms that that's something that's OK to do."</p><p>This representation is cause for celebration, according to the LGBTQ charity Stonewall. "'Drag Race' shows a kaleidoscope of possibilities of what people can be in a really positive and uplifting way," Jeffrey Ingold, the charity's head of media, told Insider.</p><p>"Representation matters, because you can't be what you can't see," he added.</p><p>Crystal, a former contestant on the show's UK spinoff, agreed that the show had championed self-expression.</p><div type="image" title="crystal drag queen uk" height="1800" width="2400" msid="92416040" hostid="261"></div><p>"Young people are seeing that it's freeing to realize that the rule book on gender you've been given by society is not necessarily the one that you need to adhere to," the drag queen said. "I feel like we're now on the verge of getting a generation of kids who don't feel shame about their sexuality or gender."</p><p>But Crystal, who famously boasts a chest of hair, argued that too much focus had been placed on "female illusion" instead of dismantling gender norms.</p><p>"Hopefully people take the message that drag is about expressing yourself however you want and not just about having giant hips, boobs, and lips," Crystal added.</p><h2>'I don't think it's done huge amounts for females, women, and for trans people'</h2><p>Another former contestant, Divina de Campo, also said the show could do more to fully represent LGBTQ communities.</p><div type="image" title="divina de campo drag race" height="459" width="613" msid="92416042" hostid="261"></div><p>"'Drag Race' has raised the bar on queer visibility," they told Insider. "But we have to be very aware that it's male queer visibility. There's practically no queer female visibility, and there's only one male trans person in over 20 seasons.</p><p>"I think it's done great things about opening up conversations about the power of femininity and owning that as a male person, but I don't think it's done huge amounts for women and for trans people," de Campo said.</p><p>"The message is that if you're male, you're acceptable. That, to me, is thorny," they added.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-to-buy-cheap-high-quality-lgbt-inclusive-credit-suisse-2020-12">Buy these 28 discounted stocks from an LGBT-inclusive index that's crushed its global benchmark since 2010, Credit Suisse says</a></em></p><p>While the show has championed queer issues and helped to empower some young LGBTQ+ people, others say more could be done to represent a broader swath of identities.</p><p>"'Drag Race' was the representation I needed when I was growing up," Austin said. "But now it's important for the current generations to see more trans and nonbinary people. Then they'll also be able to think, 'This is my time.'"</p><p><em>This article is part of  <a href="https://www.insider.com/we-us-ours-lgbtq-communities-and-queer-spaces">"We/Us/Ours,"</a> a series about LGBTQ communities and spaces that inspire queer unity.</em></p>

By championing self-expression, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has encouraged a generation of young LGBTQ+ fans to come out

<p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>OnlineDoctor.SuperDrug.com</span></p><p class="caption">Another social experiment is trying to understand what different world cultures think is beautiful.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p class="p1">The idea that beauty may vary as much as language around the world is a popular notion - in 2014, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-19-different-countries-define-beauty-2014-6#">journalist Esther Honig went viral</a> after she sent her picture to graphic designers around the world asking them to make her look "beautiful."</p><p class="p1">The campaign launched copycats like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/priscilla-yuki-wilsons-photoshopped-portraits-2014-9">biracial Priscilla Yuki Wilson</a> as well as <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/marie-southard-ospina-photoshopped-2014-12">Marie Southward</a> who did it with a "plus-sized twist." Now, a <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/perceptions-of-perfection/">UK-based online doctor service has sent out a similar challenge</a>, spotted on <a href="http://www.complex.com/style/2015/08/graphic-designers-photoshop-womans-body-based-off-beauty-standards-in-18-different-countries">Complex</a>.</p><p class="p1">OnlineDoctor.SuperDrug.com contacted content marketing agency <a href="http://frac.tl/">Fractl</a> to reach out to graphic designers around the world. The Fractl team sent a stock image of a woman posing in her underwear to designers in 18 countries - from the UK to Syria - to find out "how do perceptions of beauty vary across the globe."</p><p class="p1">Some of the changes were sparse, but other designers made the model in the picture look like a completely different person. China and Italy in particular had the thinnest Photoshopped images while Spain and Colombia kept the woman fairly robust.</p><p class="p1">Keep reading to see how 18 designers from around the world envision beauty.</p>

A model's portrait was edited in 18 world countries to make her beautiful

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>The <span>Miss Universe beauty pageant is 63 years old, and it can tell us a lot about how our perception of beauty has evolved over the years.</span></p><p><span><span>UK-based <a href="https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/evolution-miss-universe/" rel="nofollow"><span>superdrug.com tracked</span></a></span><span> the evolution of Miss Universe winner's body types since the contest started in 1952 by gathering all of the publicly available pictures, height, and weight measurements the team could find and then comparing the data with the average height and weight of women in the US aged 20 to 29 (based on Center for Disease Control data).</span></span></p><p><span><span>"</span><span>We chose to examine Miss Universe because it's such a long-standing tradition around the world," <span>Adina Antonucci, one of the study's team members, told <keyword id="79969" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="insider">INSIDER</keyword> in an email.</span> "In recent years, we've seen an increase in body image awareness that has sparked important conversations about the unrealistic standards of beauty."</span></span></p><p><span>They found that while the average American woman has gotten heavier, Miss Universe has only gotten thinner and taller.</span></p><p><span><span><span>Keep scrolling to see how the competition and its winners have evolved over six decades.</span></span></span></p>

See how the Miss Universe pageant has evolved over 63 years

<p><a href="https://www.insider.com/we-us-ours-lgbtq-communities-and-queer-spaces"></a></p><div type="image" title="Photos of Gottmik, Kerri Colby, RuPaul, Jasmine Kennedie and Willow Pill lead 2x1" height="1167" width="2334" msid="92260880" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The Emmy-winning show "<keyword id="1560287" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="RuPaul" source="Orion">RuPaul</keyword>'s Drag Race" has encouraged a new generation of LGBTQ+ fans to come out.</li><li>The casting of Gottmik, the drag persona of the first trans man to compete, was a "watershed" moment, an academic said.</li><li>But more could be done to support female, nonbinary, and trans viewers, two former contestants said.</li></ul><p>Brandon Austin struggled with feeling different in high school.</p><p>"I wasn't myself at all. Nobody was gay, and I was an easy target for bullies. I felt abnormal," he told Insider. "Then, at 16, my best friend introduced me to 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'"</p><p>Austin, a 20-year-old from Kent, England, is one of many young LGBTQ+ people whose coming-out story involves "<a href="https://www.insider.com/rupauls-drag-race-2019-1">RuPaul's Drag Race</a>."</p><p>"Without 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I wouldn't have had the confidence to come out as gay," Austin told Insider. "I think I'd still be a few years away from coming out."</p><p>The Emmy-winning reality show, broadcast on VH1 and Paramount+ in the US, follows RuPaul Charles' search for "America's next drag superstar." It's been described as "<a href="https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/rupaul-drag-race-contestants-season-all-stars-ranked">the closest gay culture gets to a sports league</a>."</p><p>Throughout its 14 seasons — and numerous spin-offs — it has shed light on issues important to LGBTQ+ communities, such as <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/slay-stigma-hiv-drag-queen-rupaul-twisted-element-1.5311140">HIV</a>, <a href="https://www.dailyxtra.com/sober-drag-queens-addiction-179896">substance use</a>, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/rupauls-drag-race-first-openly-trans-male-contestant-gottmik">transgender identities</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jujubeefans/posts/i-only-had-my-parents-until-i-was-15-my-father-died-and-the-same-year-my-mother-/10153068215605027/">family abandonment</a>, and <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2017/04/28/rupauls-drag-race-peppermint-coming-out/">coming out</a>.</p><p>It has also brought the art of female impersonation into the mainstream.</p><p>Drag's place in the zeitgeist means that more young LGBTQ+ people watching the show have visible queer icons they can look up to. This representation is significant for many <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-is-smartphone-generation-2019-7">Gen Zers</a> who have grown up with the show over its 12 years. For several, it has been integral to their being out and proud about their identities.</p><p>"Seeing people being accepted for who they are made me realize that I am normal," Austin told Insider.</p><h2>'It helped me to accept myself'</h2><p>By day, Austin works in an Amazon warehouse. By night, he moonlights as a "glitterific" drag queen called Sophia Stardust.</p><p>Austin, who has been performing as Sophia Stardust for four years, credited the show with helping him to embrace his sexuality and giving him the confidence to pursue drag.</p><div type="image" title="teenage drag queen" height="360" width="480" msid="80600685" hostid="261"></div><p>Austin had grown up with little exposure to gay <keyword id="24504" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="culture" source="Orion">culture</keyword>. But "RuPaul's Drag Race" was a revelation.</p><p>"I was living in an area where all I saw was straight people," he said. "Then, watching this show, I saw a new world — a world where people were getting recognition and praise for existing as these magical creatures.</p><p>"It helped me to accept myself," he continued. "Shortly after, I came out as gay. Then a week after that, I got a cheap wig from my neighbor's attic, bought some Superdrug makeup, and got into drag for the very first time."</p><div type="image" title="drag queen uk teenager" height="360" width="480" msid="80600686" hostid="261"></div><h2>'I'd definitely still be struggling with my gender identity'</h2><p>Like Austin, 17-year-old Neptune is thankful for "RuPaul's Drag Race's" role in their coming-out story.</p><p>The nonbinary drag queen, who was assigned female at birth, said they became confident after being introduced to the show.</p><p>"Without 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I probably wouldn't be calling myself nonbinary," they said. "I'd definitely still be struggling with my gender identity."</p><div type="image" title="neptune teenage drag queen" height="360" width="480" msid="80600687" hostid="261"></div><p>Neptune began watching the show when they were 11 years old. At first, they said, they thought drag was "just for men."</p><p>After watching a few seasons of the show, Neptune went to Pride Glasgow, Scotland's largest LGBTQ+ festival, where they met a drag queen for the first time.</p><p>"I found out from them that there were loads of AFAB and gender-nonconforming queens," Neptune said. "This gave me the confidence to start doing drag myself."</p><p>They said the show introduced them to a world that allowed them to explore their gender. Neptune came out as nonbinary this year.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tomboyx-cofounder-built-inclusive-gender-neutral-clothing-brand-2020-11">LGBTQ customers spend $917 billion a year on brands they care about. Here's how the cofounder of the inclusive clothing line TomboyX harnessed her strict upbringing to build a beloved business with her wife.</a></em></p><p>"'Drag Race' was a huge inspiration and was my entry into a community," Neptune told Insider. "My life would be very different without the show."</p><p>One queen who Neptune said was an important part of their journey is Gottmik, the drag persona of 24-year-old Kade Gottlieb, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/rupauls-drag-race-first-openly-trans-male-contestant-gottmik">the first trans man cast on the show</a>.</p><p>"Having Gottmik on the show is incredibly important," they said. "Casting trans queens introduces and normalizes transness."</p><h2>Gottlieb, aka Gottmik, is the first trans man to compete on the show</h2><p>Gottmik broadened the show's scope of what constitutes a drag queen.</p><p>Gottlieb was the show's first transgender man to compete, its first queen to be assigned female at birth, and its first contestant to have had top surgery, a procedure that trans men can undergo to remove breast tissue.</p><p>For many of the show's fans, Gottmik's casting was a major turning point.</p><div type="image" title="gottmik drag race rupaul" height="1724" width="2299" msid="80600688" hostid="261"></div><p>In 2018, RuPaul <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/08/rupaul-drag-race-transgender-performers-diversity">said he would "probably not" include trans women</a> on the show. The host <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8232231/rupaul-responds-backlash-hurtful-comments/">eventually backtracked</a>, but the comment has consistently been criticized as exclusionary and transphobic.</p><p>Since then, numerous trans women have appeared on the show.</p><p>Season 14, which aired this year, included five trans contestants. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté and Kerri Colby were out when they entered the workroom, with fellow contestants Bosco, Jasmine Kennedie, and Willow Pill opening up about their identities during or after the season's filming.</p><p>Nonbinary contestants have also appeared on the show. And in the third season of the UK spinoff "RuPaul's Drag Race UK," a cisgender woman — Victoria Scone — was featured.</p><p>But Gottmik's inclusion in Season 13 represented a seismic shift, marking a widening net of who can compete.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sephora-inclusivity-lesson-viral-incident-sza-2020-2">Sephora's VP of marketing explains what a viral incident with the musician SZA taught the company about inclusivity</a></em></p><p>In Gottmik's first appearance on the show, the drag queen <a href="https://www.them.us/story/gottmik-discusses-top-surgery-pronouns-ru-pauls-drag-race-season-13">spoke frankly about experiencing gender dysphoria</a> and having had top surgery. Pronouns were also discussed: "She" in drag, "he" out of drag.</p><p>"Coming out on the episode and talking about gender dysphoria and top surgery was weird for me. I don't even talk about it with my friends," Gottlieb told Insider. "At first, I felt a little bit concerned about my family and how they were going to react to seeing it on TV for the first time.</p><p>"But I took a step back and realized this is a real moment for trans people. Trans people go through dysphoria and have top-surgery moments," he added. "I just had to own it, kill it, and be honored to have such a platform."</p><p>Gottlieb said he recognized that his being on the show could validate someone's journey to feeling secure in their gender identity.</p><p>"I have the most amount of messages I could have ever imagined from young trans guys wanting to explore drag but who are worried it might invalidate their gender or people might look at them in some sort of way," he said. "Seeing that I helped them realize that drag is just an art form, not a gender, is so amazing for me to see."</p><h2>'Representation matters'</h2><p>Gottmik's casting was profound for many young <keyword id="729067" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="LGBTQ" source="Orion">LGBTQ</keyword> people and particularly trans people, Katie Horowitz, an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at Davidson College, told Insider in 2021.</p><p>"Gottmik's casting is a watershed moment," Horowitz said. "To see somebody who was assigned female who then transitioned to identifying as a man performing as a woman is an incredibly new and groundbreaking conversation."</p><div type="image" title="GOTTMIK drag race us season 13" height="1000" width="1333" msid="80600689" hostid="261"></div><p>"I think exposure to this sort of thing normalizes both queerness and being transgender to little kids," Horowitz said. "Now kids growing up will see people play with gender, and that affirms that that's something that's OK to do."</p><p>This representation is cause for celebration, according to the LGBTQ charity Stonewall. "'Drag Race' shows a kaleidoscope of possibilities of what people can be in a really positive and uplifting way," Jeffrey Ingold, the charity's head of media, told Insider.</p><p>"Representation matters, because you can't be what you can't see," he added.</p><p>Crystal, a former contestant on the show's UK spinoff, agreed that the show had championed self-expression.</p><div type="image" title="crystal drag queen uk" height="1800" width="2400" msid="80600691" hostid="261"></div><p>"Young people are seeing that it's freeing to realize that the rule book on gender you've been given by society is not necessarily the one that you need to adhere to," the drag queen said. "I feel like we're now on the verge of getting a generation of kids who don't feel shame about their sexuality or gender."</p><p>But Crystal, who famously boasts a chest of hair, argued that too much focus had been placed on "female illusion" instead of dismantling gender norms.</p><p>"Hopefully people take the message that drag is about expressing yourself however you want and not just about having giant hips, boobs, and lips," Crystal added.</p><h2>'I don't think it's done huge amounts for females, women, and for trans people'</h2><p>Another former contestant, Divina de Campo, also said the show could do more to fully represent LGBTQ communities.</p><div type="image" title="divina de campo drag race" height="459" width="613" msid="80600692" hostid="261"></div><p>"'Drag Race' has raised the bar on queer visibility," they told Insider. "But we have to be very aware that it's male queer visibility. There's practically no queer female visibility, and there's only one male trans person in over 20 seasons.</p><p>"I think it's done great things about opening up conversations about the power of femininity and owning that as a male person, but I don't think it's done huge amounts for women and for trans people," de Campo said.</p><p>"The message is that if you're male, you're acceptable. That, to me, is thorny," they added.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-to-buy-cheap-high-quality-lgbt-inclusive-credit-suisse-2020-12">Buy these 28 discounted stocks from an LGBT-inclusive index that's crushed its global benchmark since 2010, Credit Suisse says</a></em></p><p>While the show has championed queer issues and helped to empower some young LGBTQ+ people, others say more could be done to represent a broader swath of identities.</p><p>"'Drag Race' was the representation I needed when I was growing up," Austin said. "But now it's important for the current generations to see more trans and nonbinary people. Then they'll also be able to think, 'This is my time.'"</p>

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Forbes</span></p><p class="caption">Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The man who is hoping to buy the O2 mobile network and create the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>'s biggest mobile phone carrier has said he would "surely" scale back investments into the country if it left the EU.</p><p>Li Ka-shing, who is chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and has a net worth of $30 billion (£21 billion) according to Forbes, joins a number of high-profile businessmen who have warned that a Brexit would be bad for the UK's economy.</p><p><span>"If 'Brexit' really happens, we will surely decrease our investments," Li said at a press conference for his company's annual earnings, according to <a href="http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/billionaire-li-says-brexit-would-prompt-his-uk-retrenchment" target="_blank">The Business Times.</a> "The possibility of Brexit is small if British people care about their own interests."</span></p><p><span><span>Li has $50 billion (£34 billion) worth of business interests in the UK - including investments in the port of Felixstowe, retail chain Superdrug, Northumbrian Water, Eversholt Rail, and the mobile phone operator Three. He is known as "Superman" in his native Hong Kong thanks to his canny business acumen.</span></span></p><p><span><span>CK Hutchinson hope to win round regulators in its £10.5 billion takeover of O2 by offering rival networks almost a third of the capacity of its own network if it goes through, according to the <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d44b29a6-e9fd-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4.html#axzz433aA5WwF" target="_blank">Financial Times</a>. However the European Commission's push for Hutchinson to create a fourth network means the merger has still not been fully approved. </span></span></p><p>In recent months executives at Goldman Sachs, Nissan, and Ford have also warned the UK over the effects a Brexit vote on June 23 would have on the British economy.</p><p>US President Barack Obama will visit Britain next month and is expected <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-has-accused-obama-of-brexit-hypocrisy-2016-3">to urge the nation to vote against leaving the EU</a>.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-50-cent-made-lost-money-bankruptcy-court-2016-2">This is how rapper 50 Cent made millions and then lost it</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="VlbnI2djrZXIh9tIkLc68cC984sL8GSb" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

You Searched For "Superdrug" and got 10 results

Fast-fashion retailers advertising on the widely popular British show 'Love Island' are expected to take a hit in sales after TV boss confirms series cancellation

Shalini Nagarajan

I loved being a virtual assistant so much that I started my own franchise for others. Here's how I did it.

Claire Turrell

Here's what men and women say are the ideal number of sex partners

Lisa Ryan

Drew Barrymore's 7-year-old daughter photographed her magazine cover photo, and the pictures are super professional

Claudia Willen

The evolution of Miss Universe winners' body types from 1952 to now

Megan Willett

By championing self-expression, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has encouraged a generation of young LGBTQ+ fans to come out

Joshua Zitser

A model's portrait was edited in 18 world countries to make her beautiful

Megan Willett

See how the Miss Universe pageant has evolved over 63 years

Megan Willett

By championing self-expression, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has encouraged a generation of young LGBTQ+ fans to come out

Joshua Zitser

Hong Kong's richest man says a Brexit would 'surely' force him to decrease his investments into the UK

Matthew Nitch Smith

Popular Keywords

Buying Guides