PROM QUEEN
ONGINA
When RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered in February on Logo, the tiny-framed, bald-headed Ongina immediately stood out from the pack of immense drag queens in towering coiffures. Known by day as Ryan Ong Palao, the L.A.-based visual merchandiser and Philippines native, 27, didn’t win the competition. But he did win hearts—and national attention—when, in an emotional moment after winning a challenge that would make him spokesperson for the MAC AIDS Fund, he revealed he’d been living with HIV for the past two years.
