‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’: How Trinity K. Bonet Got Her Drag Name
Trinity K. Bonet is a BeyoncƩ fan and a self-proclaimed pageant queen. She even shared her love for one action movie and the Kardashian family with her drag name.
Hereās what we know about this RuPaulās Drag Race: All-Stars 6 contestant.Ā
Trinity K. Bonet was a contestant on āRuPaulās Drag Raceā season 6
This contestant earned praise for her runways and, with the support of Bianca Del Rio, found her voice and star power. However, Trinity K. Bonet was eliminated from the series before earning the crown.Ā
How did Trinity K. Bonet get her drag name?
This drag queen wouldnāt be the only performer who used the first name āTrinity,ā as season 9 featured Trinity āThe Tuckā Taylor. However, Trinity K. Bonet shared the meaning behind her drag name, even linking it back to a character from The Matrix.
āI picked Trinity after The Matrix and my last from Jasmine Bonet since I idolized her,ā the drag performer said, according to TV Over Mind. The āKā in Trinity K. Bonet stands for Kardashian, in honor of the famous family.
A few RuPaulās Drag Race contestants shared the origins of their stage names. The drag name āTrixie Mattelā came from a slur her stepfather used whenever the young drag performer was acting feminine. The āMattelā part is a nod to Barbie, a doll manufactured by Mattel, Inc.
Courtney Actās drag name is a nod to her Australian accent. With the accent, her name sounds like the phrase ācaught in the act.ā Katyaās last name was inspired by one of her favorite Russian gymnasts, Elena Zamolodchikova.
Trinity K. Bonet is a contestant on āRuPaulās Drag Race: All-Stars 6ā
Years after her appearance on the reality competition series, Bonet returned to the Werk Room for RuPaulās Drag Race: All-Stars 6. In this spinoff, contestants have a chance at ārudemptionā and the title of āAmericaās Next Drag Superstar.ā
āWhen youāre competing for something, you tend to forget your power,ā Bonet said during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. āIād already wrapped my mind around anything thatās said to me is a matter of opinion and not necessarily affecting me. If I brought, I believed in it.āĀ
āIf I did it in the challenge, I gave it my best in the time that was given,ā she continued. āWhy am I beating myself up or allowing these people to make me feel like my drag is less than or that Iām less than or who Iāve created is less than because Iāve given them the authority to judge me? These girls need to be reminded that theyāre dope.ā
Outside of her work with RuPaulās Drag Race, this performer appeared in Taylor Swiftās music video for āYou Need To Calm Down,ā along with Jade Jolie, Tatianna, Adore Delano, and others. New episodes of RuPaulās Drag Race: All-Stars 6 premiere weekly on Paramount+.