Note: this post has been modified with additional information as of 6/20. Changes are in italics.

Season Six is filming right now. It's thrilling to think: at this moment, while I type, while you read, the girls of Season Six might be actually filming the Snatch Game right now. Or two of them might be lip-synching for their lives tonight. Some petty squabble that will lead to this season's Bitch-I-am-from-CHICAGO-this-is-not-RuPaul's-Best-Friend-Race-I-have-had-it-OFFICIALLY catchphrase? Could be happening at this moment.

I've been combing the internet for weeks, making a spreadsheet of every single rumored queen mentioned by anybody, anywhere. By the time I decided it was time to write this post, I'd assembled a list of over sixty queens who were confirmed as having applied, and that's not counting any Atlanta queens. Then, one by one, I went down my list and researched them all. Most were easy to cross off the list: when you're posting Vines from gigs and Instagrams from your Gemini birthday party, you're not simultaneously filming RuPaul's Drag Race. Some were harder, particularly queens who were never very active on social media to begin with. And some? A few, I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing splashed across promos this fall, and in the werkroom come January.

Special shout-out, of course, to the RuPaul's Drag Race subreddit, which continues to be my favorite place to geek all the way out about Drag Race--a solid half of my rumored-list came from there, and while I've now independently researched each queen I'm about to tell you about, many of them wouldn't be on my radar if it weren't for the efforts of the RPDR subreddit. Thanks, friends!

So, while the Season Six queens frantically groom their wigs, beat their mugs, and E-6000 their runway apparel, their local bars have quietly brought in special guest queens to fill in, their social media has turned silent or strange. Some of them might be busy or bluffing, but a few of them are probably not. Who are these missing queens? Let's look at the list.

Adore Delano





Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Likelihood for Season Six: Very, Very Likely

To keep it short: Adore, aka Danny Noriega, lives on social media--she's that former American Idol contestant who nearly won last year's Facebook fan vote, and did win this year's. While she's normally actively online on a daily basis, she went completely silent on June 6. If there's anybody on this list that I feel certain made Season Six, it's Adore.

Bianca Del Rio





Hometown: New York, NY

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Likelihood for Season Six: Likely

This one comes from an anonymous tip on Reddit, purportedly from somebody in the NYC drag scene, but it seems like a solid guess: she's Drag Race material, and while it appears that she's normally busy on social media, she's gone nearly silent--a Facebook change of profile pic and update from her movie project could absolutely have been made by somebody else.

Courtney Act





Hometown: West Hollywood, CA, by way of Sydney, Australia

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Likelihood for Season Six: Very Likely

This is the queen that the internet is 100% convinced has been cast: after all, she oh-so-conveniently disappeared for a "trip to Africa" and hasn't surfaced since June 8, and she's only posted a single photo, which the internet immediately clocked: check out the side-by-side of her winter trip on Instagram and her "recent" Facebook photo.

On the other hand: I've also heard rumors that this is a double-bluff, that wherever she is, Courtney is not on RuPaul's Drag Race this season. I imagine we'll find out more details next time she finds access to the internet.

Darienne Lake





Hometown: Rochester, NY

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Likelihood for Season Six: Very Likely

This is one where my obsessive spreadsheeting has hopefully paid off: though I haven't seen buzz about Darienne Lake since the Facebook fan vote, I put her on my list a few weeks ago, and now she appears to be missing. Her home bar, Rain Lounge, hosted Willam for Rochester Pride this weekend, and while she was originally billed as part of the show, it appears that she wasn't there after all. Yes, it's possible that her daytime life is putting her through it and she's disappeared from the scene for personal reasons, but my hunch is that she's in LA right now.

Gia Gunn





Hometown: Chicago, IL

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Likelihood for Season Six: Likely

Like Bianca Del Rio, this is via anonymous-rumor-mill chatter, this time from the Chicago queens. She dropped off social media the third week of May, but she was never very active on social media to begin with, so it's a tough call. For now, we're taking a ride with the Chicago kiki, and we'll see when she surfaces next.

Trinity Bonet





Hometown: Atlanta, GA

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Likelihood for Season Six: Very Likely

Did RuPaul grant my wish for an Atlanta queen? The third anonymous-rumor-mill cast-speculative is Trinity Bonet, who has been silent on social media since June 5. (Full disclosure, since she's an Atlanta queen: I don't know Trinity personally, and I haven't spoken directly with of her friends, though I have seen her perform a couple of times in the last several months.) This one, I'm hoping to pin down a bit more firmly: she's on-cast at Stars of the Century, a weekly Monday-night drag show, and I'm going tonight. If she's there, I'll wipe the egg from my face and cross her off this list, but I strongly doubt I'll be seeing her tonight.

Update 6/20: I went to the show, and it was great fun! However, as it happens, this Monday's show was a special annual event, and the cast was different from the regular performers. I'll keep my ear to the ground.

Ben Delacreme





Hometown: Seattle, WA

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Likelihood for Season Six: Possible Very, very likely

This one feels like wishful thinking: they wouldn't really cast Jinkx's hilarious co-host and drag-queen-BFF Ben Delacreme the season after Jinkx won, right? After the Sharon-then-Alaska casting, though, all bets are off, and Jinkx was vocal in April and May about wanting to see Ben on RuPaul's Drag Race next season. If she's there, I'm already certain she'll be one of my favorites; Ben would be a joy to have on the show. She's been silent since June 6, but Seattle Pride is coming up June 28-29, and she's billed for multiple events that weekend. If nobody else has resurfaced by then, and she misses Seattle Pride too, I'd say we have a cast pick.

Update 6/20: Ben has been canceling Pride events. Alert Redditor Suzepie pointed me towards this June 22 event, where Ben was supposed to host, but has been replaced (yes, this is the punctuation) "due to an unexpected 'commitment'..." The write-up is by Michael Strangeways, who has appeared in the Monsoon Season video series and is presumably in the inner loop of the Seattle drag scene. 'Commitment' indeed. Can't wait to see you on Season Six, Ben!

Laganja Estranga



Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Likelihood for Season Six: Possible Very Likely

So, let's be real: somebody else is enthusiastically running Laganja's Twitter account, right? It's recently switched from the first person to the third person, and her Facebook has been silent since June 11. With no upcoming gigs and plenty of internet buzz, she might just be smokin' the werkroom as we speak.

Update 6/20: I'm upgrading Laganja to Very Likely. Still no gigs, still third-person Twitter account. My gut says she's in.

Miss Fame



Hometown: New York City, NY

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Likelihood for Season Six: Possible Very Unlikely

I've seen quite a lot of buzz about Miss Fame, and her social media has gone very spotty recently. If her Facebook is anything to go by, she's either gone quiet because she's filming RuPaul's Drag Race, or because she just got engaged. Congratulations either way!

Update 6/20: I've had a couple people familiar with her boy name/accounts tell me that she's not on Season Six. Alas!

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That's my list--so far. I've got a few other names I'm sitting on, because I'm still not sure what to make of them--mostly, queens who have definitely disappeared from social media since the first week of June, but who were also never very active on social media to begin with. There might be a Part Two to this post.

And, while we're at it, who's not filming? It seems safe to bet that, among hundreds of other queens, the Season Six cast will not include buzzed-about queens such as Rhea Litre, Mayhem Miller, Vicky Vox, Mahlae Balenciaga, Misty Eyez, Epiphany Get Paid (unless she's in the same version of Greece as Courtney's version of the Seychelles), or anybody from the Haus of Haunt. Take heart: there's always Season Seven.

If you have T, send it to me. If you want to be anonymous, you can email me at dilettwat@gmail.com, or else feel free to hit me up on Facebook or Twitter. Sorry for the gap in posting lately--I've got a few posts/projects cooking, but you've gotta let it cook, y'know? Anyway, sound off in the comments--if my list is correct, who will you be most-excited to see on RuPaul's Drag Race next season?