Bosco Is The Marvelous Miss Gender
GO had the pleasure of kiki-ing with the gorgeous Bosco ahead of her ‘The Marvelous Miss Gender’ tour kicking off on July 8.
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International showgirl. One of Seattle’s premier drag queens. God’s favorite transsexual. Blair Constantino—known to the world as Bosco—had us spellbound from her first strip tease on season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2022. She continued to captivate us when she returned to All Stars 10 in 2025. Now the irreverent, wicked villainess is coming to a city near you this July with her biggest solo theatrical production to date. The Marvelous Miss Gender is a cinematic two-act musical lip-sync comedy based on Bosco’s evil alter ego, Miss Gender. GO had the pleasure of kiki-ing with the gorgeous Bosco ahead of the tour.
The Marvelous Miss Gender blends comic book noir, burlesque, high fashion, stand-up, and over-the-top camp into a full-on narrative drag spectacular. Imagine the gothic glamour of Batman: The Animated Series, the technicolor chaos of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and the ghoul-glam of Elvira. A lot of seemingly unrelated characters, and yet they somehow make perfect sense. That cohesion-from-chaos is Bosco’s speciality. “I love it when you feel like, ‘Oh, this feels like a reference, but I don’t know what it’s a reference to,’” she tells GO. “There’s a really fun alchemy to that.”
The concept for The Marvelous Miss Gender had been sitting in her notes app “forever.” “I get a lot of my ideas in the shower or late at night, or when I’m taking walks by myself through the city.”
Her creative process is largely inspired by multiple references layered until they become something that feels familiar but unplaceable, nostalgic but new, uncanny but intrinsic.
“Once people see it in action,” she says, “they’ll be like—oh, this makes a lot of sense.”
Like any scorned woman worth their salt in estrogen, The Marvelous Miss Gender has an origin story. Miss Gender was once “a bricky trans girl” being chased by bigots into a factory full of estrogen. She fell into a vat full of said estrogen and came out “as the premier transsexual, set on spreading her gender agenda to the world.” The agenda? “Making everybody trans.”
Rather than meeting conservative fearmongering with rational rebuttal, Bosco does something more subversive — she takes the accusation and runs with it. If transphobes want to claim that trans visibility is an agenda designed to convert the masses, Bosco simply asks: What if it were?
“I don’t think now is the time to shy away from being queer. I don’t think now is the time to tone down being trans,” she tells GO. “I don’t think there’s any compromises to be made with people who don’t think you deserve to be alive.”
Everything Bosco says comes out as a love letter to trans people, and it’s reflected in her answer when asked why expressing herself as a trans woman is so important. “Trans people are the coolest people in the world,” she says. “We’ve created our own reality. We decided what was set for us [was] not what we wanted, and we went out and forcefully decided to be something else. I think it’s metal. I think it’s punk.”
One scorned woman stands out in Bosco’s mind as the most formative. The gorgeous, “super clocky” Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in Joel Schumacher’s Batman.
“I like to say that some cis women are gay guys, and some women are dolls. And she was really doing it for the dolls with that role. She was just so campy and so silly. She’s a weird Seattle barista in one scene, and then she’s pushed into all of these poisonous plants and comes back with the power of Mother Nature. She’s everything.”
Bosco’s love of art is just as strong as her integrity when making it. It’s important for Bosco for The Marvelous Miss Gender to be made of real, human-made, tangible art—no generated AI slop. She doesn’t beat around the bush. “[Using AI] just feels tacky. It feels unchic, and it feels lame.” And the tea: “AI generates bullshit. There [are] already plenty of artists [who] generate bullshit. We don’t want to be taking jobs away from our untalented artist peers.”
If you haven’t already caught on, Bosco is not interested in toning anything down. Not now, not in this political moment, not for anyone. When asked about the hand-wringing over queer nightlife and culture losing its edge, she’s direct and solution-oriented: “In queer circles, we’re still as freaky and weird as ever. And I really want to be able to take that and put it on the road, put it in front of as many people as possible.”
Off stage, Bosco’s life is equally as fabulous, campy, and magical. Bosco is newly engaged to her fiancé, Blake, with a wedding planned for October 2027. “I want to make all of my friends get in drag, but I won’t be in drag. So all of my bridesmaids will be in full geish, and then I’m gonna make them do a show for me,” Bosco laughs, “And I’m gonna look really, really incredible.”
Her hopes for the future are two things: to make art for the rest of her life and “to die in a horror movie. So if there’s any way that we can make that possible, anybody who’s reading or sees this…” For the community, she hopes we will continue to pave the way for the queer people to come. “It is really not a super fun time to be queer in this country. But I do think we have it so much easier than a lot of the people that came before us, and the reason why we have it easier is because [of them]. So while it might not be ideal right now, our job is to make things easier for those who are coming after us.”
Bosco deeply loves her community. It’s apparent in the art she creates and every word she speaks. “I love the lesbians. If there’s one demographic to win over as a drag queen, you have to win over the lesbian vote. Those are the ride or dies.”
Bosco’s art is a reflection of who she is—the nostalgia of the familiar crashing into the uncanny, the discomfort of being seen colliding with the thrill of seeing. In The Marvelous Miss Gender, you can expect her to shock, amuse, and arouse you. You can expect her to be exactly who she is.
“And who I am,” Bosco smiles, “is incredibly naked.”
The Marvelous Miss Gender tour officially kicks off on July 8, stopping in over 30 cities through August 16. Get your tickets here. Follow Bosco @hereisbosco on Instagram.
