Trinity "The Tuck" Taylor is the stage name of Ryan Taylor, an American drag queen and recording artist most known for competing on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and winning RuPaul's Drag Race All Starsseason 4 along with Monét X Change. Trinity went by Trinity "the Tuck" Taylor, but as of the debut of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars she is known as Trinity the Tuck. In June 2019, New York magazine published the results from their panel of judges and writers which ranked her in the top twenty Drag Race superstars.
Trinity was named Miss Pulse by Pulse nightclub in 2011. She has won several national pageants, including National Entertainer of the year in 2014 and Miss National Renaissance 2016. She has also performed worldwide as a backup dancer for Andy Bell from Erasure. In February 2017, Trinity was announced being among fourteen contestants for the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. She won three challenges during the course of the competition, in episodes three, seven and ten. Trinity placed in the top four overall, after losing a lip sync to "Stronger" by Britney Spears against Peppermint. She was referenced in a skit on Saturday Night Live in May 2017. Trinity was announced to compete on the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars on November 9, 2018. She was referred to as Trinity the Tuck instead of Trinity Taylor. Following her appearance on All Stars, Trinity was interviewed by Vogue for paying homage to a famous Prada dress worn by Sarah Paulson. Paulson publicly thanked Trinity for the special honor through several of her social media platforms. Trinity later won the season in a tie with Monét X Change, having placed in the top two four times throughout the competition as well as winning two lipsyncs which gave her the power to eliminate Jasmine Masters in episode one and Latrice Royale in episode nine. On November 3, 2019, Trinity launched her podcast WERK With Trinity the Tuck which features recurring and special guests. She has also continued to release new episodes of her Youtube series Talking With The Tuck. In 2020, Trinity appeared in the Netflix original AJ and the Queen as a well-known pageant drag queen. She was cast to be one of ten Drag Race alumni to be on RuPaul's Celebrity Drag Race, where she will help give a celebrity a drag makeover as they compete for the title of "America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar". Trinity was featured on Out Magazine, Gay Times, Pink News and various other press publications for her tribute project where she recreated iconic runway looks from previous Rupaul's Drag Race winners. The project, a collaboration with her boyfriend Leo Llanos, has garnered her high praise from fans, Drag Race alumni and press outlets for its captivating imagery and reinvented fashion styles. In June 2020, Trinity interviewed Cyndi Lauper, as part of the Youtube series We Stan, to talk about the Stonewall Riots and the importance of activism.
Music
During the first episode of All Stars 4, she premiered an original comedy song titled "The Perfect Tuck" during the episode's variety show and won the challenge. The song was released for digital download on the same day. Her second solo single, a dance track called "The Face, The Body", was released on January 25, 2019. A music video for her third single, "I Call Shade", was released on February 14, 2019, and features Peppermint. The music video has over a million views. Her debut album Plastic premiered at number 9 on the Billboard Comedy chart. She appeared in the music videos for Latrice Royale's "Excuse the Beauty" and Aja's "I Don't Wanna Brag". She portrayed Lady Gaga in the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" on June 17, 2019. Later that year, Trinity reprised her Lady Gaga character and opened the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards with Taylor Swift. Prior to attending the VMA's, Taylor Swift stated she wouldn’t perform on the show unless the cast were also given awards engraved with their own names for their work on "You Need To Calm Down". That same night she won Video of the Year and as such Trinity was given her own Moon Man award. On November 29, 2019, Trinity released a promotional holiday single called Trinity Ruins Christmas.
Personal life
As of at least mid-2017, Taylor lives in Orlando, Florida with his boyfriend. He has had plastic surgery, including having his ears pinned and a rhinoplasty by Dr. Miami Michael Salzhauer.
