32 Facts About Yvie Oddly

Yvie Oddly later returned to compete on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, an all-winners season, in 2022.

Yvie Oddly has been on the worldwide Werq the World drag concert tour since 2019.

Yvie Oddly released her debut album, Drag Trap, in 2020.

On June 19,2024, Yvie Oddly released their biography, All About Yvie: Into The Oddity, which became a USA Today Best Seller.

Yvie Oddly started her career as Avon Eve, performing for her first time at the Center in Denver, CO.

Yvie Oddly was more dedicated to art and wit than being a glamorous female impersonator.

The name 'Yvie Oddly' came from her pun to express "being even odder than anybody else"; Yvie Oddly soon developed a reputation for having "outrageous and unconventional looks on stage".

Yvie Oddly was the winner of the Ultimate Queen of Denver pageant in 2015.

Later that summer, Yvie Oddly became a cast member of Drag Nation; opened for pop star Mya on the Main Stage for PrideFest; and performed in Bohemia's The Prohibition of Lust.

Yvie Oddly was in the music video for Adore Delano's "Negative Nancy" in 2017.

In 2017, Yvie Oddly stated that she used drag to confront gender roles.

In 2018, when asked about her drag aesthetics, Yvie Oddly said that she liked to shock and surprise with something the audience had not seen before, including dramatic looks, even employing unconventional and found materials.

In 2018, Yvie Oddly was both the manager at her Denver home drag bar as well as a drag queen, and was looking to transform her drag into a full-time job.

Yvie Oddly felt the time to make a drastic life change was imminent even if her audition tape did not get her onto RuPaul's Drag Race.

Yvie Oddly was announced as a cast member in season eleven of RuPaul's Drag Race in January 2019; it was her third time to apply as a contestant.

Yvie Oddly is the second queen from Denver to compete on Drag Race, after Nina Flowers.

Yvie Oddly said the time of the competition was somewhat lonely as she was unable to talk to friends or family.

Yvie Oddly spoke about her motives for competing on the show:.

Yvie Oddly was the winner of the second episode main challenge with Scarlet Envy.

Yvie Oddly spent six weeks in a row placing in the top of the competition which makes her the queen with the most times in a row placing in the top after Jinkx Monsoon with eight times.

Brooke Lynn Hytes and Yvie Oddly were the bottom two queens and had to lip-sync battle to Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry" widely seen as one of the best battles in the show's history, causing RuPaul to keep both competitors.

Out said Yvie Oddly's performance was the best with her work on point and well performed.

Yvie Oddly then faced off in the final lip-sync against Brooke Lynn Hytes to Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory", which she won.

Yvie Oddly was declared the winner of Season 11 of Drag Race, and "America's Next Drag Superstar", on May 30,2019.

Yvie Oddly's win is the latest in a series of title wins by black queer and trans people in drag pageants and leather competitions, a turnaround for LGBTQ communities.

Yvie Oddly feels that queer people of color have not been credited enough for their contributions to queer culture.

In Episode 1 of All Stars 5, Yvie made a guest appearance as a "Lip Sync Assassin", where she lip-synced against India Ferrah and won.

Yvie Oddly was criticized, especially on social media, for not elevating her looks to befit her title of Drag Queen Superstar, while being awarded the $100,000 prize.

Yvie Oddly pointed out that she was a poor Black drag queen with no connections in the larger drag world with humble roots who put everything into her art when she won.

Yvie Oddly was a part of the 2019 North American leg of the Werq the World tour, a multi-year international drag concert tour hosted by Michelle Visage and featuring RuPaul's Drag Race queens.

In June 2019, Yvie Oddly performed at Denver's PrideFest, the city's annual LGBTQ pride parade and festival, and hosted "Drag Nation" at her home bar Tracks.

Yvie Oddly is the grandchild of Denver Black Panther's leader Lauren Watson.