Condragulations To Jane Don’t For Landing A Spot On RPDR Season 18!!!

December 9, 2025• byMichael Strangeways

And, once again, Seattle has local talent competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the long running drag queen competition talent show now in its 18th Season. World of Wonder, the producers of the show, have announced the line-up for the upcoming season which will feature 14 queens from around the country competing to be America’s Next Drag Superstar. The new season debuts on Friday, January 2, 2026 on MTV and Hulu with huge 90 minute episodes (as well as the return of the popular after show, Untucked.

For Season 18, Queer Bar regular hostess and star JANE DON’T will represent the Emerald City. She’s in a long line of RPDR contestants with a tie to the Capitol Hill night life spot…previous contestants Bosco, Irene the Alien Dubois, and Arrietty all claim Queer Bar as their home bar, and Robbie Turner was the headliner there when they opened in 2017.

Queer Bar was proud to announce Jane’s casting on Instagram:

We are over the moon ecstatic and proud of our hostess with the mostess, the funniest lady alive @heyjanedont on making Season 18 of @rupaulsdragrace

Jane Don’t has been our resident host and a staple in Seattle Queer nightlife for years. With a razor sharp wit, incomparable fashion, and infectious presence we know this dynamic diva is going to take the world by storm. We love you endlessly Jane!

Leave an abundance of love for her in the comments and stay tuned for some exciting opportunities to celebrate with us!

The best of luck to Jane Don’t!

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.