Living in ‘Rae’lity
Los Angeles drag queen explores her gender identity despite challenges
Flipping her waist-length blue hair, revealing her intense cat eye to the audience, the clacking of Rae Oblivion’s knee-high stiletto boots could be heard from the back of the Bovard Auditorium at USC. With flashes of blue strobe lights, Kim Petras’s “Claws,” sounded, immediately inciting “woos” and “slays” from the crowd. Drag queen and director/performer…