Who is RuPaul’s husband, Georges LeBar? The low-key artist hails from Perth, Australia, met the Drag Race host on his 21st birthday, and loves spending time on his family’s ranch in Wyoming
LeBar has always seemingly been content with letting his husband take centre stage while avoiding the spotlight himself; LeBar has no public social media accounts and is rarely photographed.
Speaking to BuzzFeed in June 2015, RuPaul shared how LeBar’s humour and kindness won him over. “I remember praying, ‘I want a sweet, sensitive man,’ and I got an Australian who’s just lovely,” he added.
Here’s everything we know about Georges LeBar.
RuPaul met his husband at a New York nightclub
The first time LeBar, 51, and RuPaul, 63, crossed paths was in 1994, on the night of LeBar’s 21st birthday. The venue was Limelight, a legendary NYC nightclub that has since closed its doors. RuPaul recounted to ET in March 2017, “He was dancing like a crazed person. I went over and said, ‘What are you doing?’ You know, and that was that.”
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The difference in their heights – according to People, LeBar is an extremely tall 200cm (6ft 7) to RuPaul’s tall 193cm tall (6ft 4) – added an extra dimension to their physical attraction. “Can I put my arms around you?” RuPaul says he asked LeBar on meeting him, per a November 2019 interview with PinkNews. “Because I’m tall, I’ve never been able to put my arms around someone’s shoulders who was taller than me.”
George LeBar’s career in visual arts
LeBar’s twin passions – for oil painting and his husband – are united in “Sitting on a Secret”, a collection of four paintings showing RuPaul in bold drag attire.
Meanwhile, the artist’s 64-strong collection “Six Inches Away” depicts feminine figures at home, and outdoors in both rural and urban settings. LeBar has also published a book, Pillowtalk, in which he blends painting and poetry.
RuPaul and LeBar wed on their 23rd anniversary of meeting
In January 2017, on their 23rd anniversary of meeting – and LeBar’s birthday – RuPaul and his beau exchanged vows in a low-key ceremony at their California home.
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Georges LeBar owns a ranch in Wyoming
Per People, RuPaul and his husband divide their time between their mansion in Beverly Hills and LeBar’s 24,300-hectare ranch in Wyoming. According to The Guardian, LeBar inherited the property from his grandfather, who ran a sheep and cattle operation with his wife for decades there.
RuPaul and LeBar have an open marriage
RuPaul and LeBar have always had an open relationship – something the drag superstar has been very candid about in interviews. “It’s just realistic,” RuPaul told The New Yorker in March, before adding controversially, “There’s no such thing as monogamy with men.”
- The Drag Race host and his husband have been in an open relationship for 3 decades – but it was Donald Trump’s election as US president that convinced them to tie the knot in 2017
- LeBar’s oil paintings include portraits of his glamorous husband – who has called Wyoming ‘the most isolated place on Earth’ and likes to show up on the ranch in ‘fabulous Westernwear’