Kelsey Myers

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season 17 winner Onya Nurve sat down with GO to chat about her well-deserved win and what’s coming next.

When I’m with my wife, I don’t overanalyze things. I simply am, because she doesn’t need me to put a label on my gender.

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave,” I quoted from memory. “Slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.”

The first time, I was on my back, at her tongue’s mercy.

Now was a moment to breathe; I was trying to remember that. But I wasn’t so sure I was ready to dance yet. 

It’s just a quiet little thing, like a kitten wrapped up in a blanket. I expected fireworks, either the violent kind or the celebratory kind, but there is nothing but the quiet of the evening, heavy around our ears.

Wearing mascara? It’s going to streak.

I cherish every part of me, even when it’s hard.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Never have I ever.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Maybe the best friends are the ones you’re in love with, just a little bit.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: She gets excited and she says she can read auras. She says there’s a process to it. She lays me back on the bed and she tells me to close my eyes. I don’t know whether to believe her or not, but I’m pretty willing to do whatever she says.

An unlikely love story.