--- title: Starbucks Rupaul's Drag Race Ad: Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano Star description: RuPaul's Drag Race stars Adore Delano and Bianca Del Rio are now helping sell coffee canonical: https://time.com/3548423/starbucks-lgbt-drag-queen-commercial-bianca-del-rio-adore-delano/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-30T16:32:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:13.156Z og:title: Watch Starbucks' Latest Ad, Featuring Drag Queens Bianca Del Rio and Adore Delano og:description: The RuPaul's Drag Race stars are now helping sell coffee og:url: https://time.com/3548423/starbucks-lgbt-drag-queen-commercial-bianca-del-rio-adore-delano/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0617f6da0364b148/69876372a988ca0d956aa1ac/screen-shot-2014-10-30-at-11-58-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1017&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1017 og:image:height: 572 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-30 at 11.58.26 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Starbucks' Latest Ad, Featuring Drag Queens Bianca Del Rio and Adore Delano twitter:description: The RuPaul's Drag Race stars are now helping sell coffee twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0617f6da0364b148/69876372a988ca0d956aa1ac/screen-shot-2014-10-30-at-11-58-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1017&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Starbucks' Newest Commercial Features Drag Queens in Desperate Need of Coffee > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 30, 2014 4:32 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 30, 2014 4:32 PM UTC Everybody loves coffee and its healing powers — especially drag queens, as we now know from Starbuck’s latest ad. It features Bianca Del Rio and Adore Delano, fan favorites from the sixth season of _RuPaul’s Drag Race_ who are both very cranky and under-caffeinated while waiting in a long Starbucks line. They begin to argue and trade insults, but then the smiley barista hands them both their steaming beverages — and boom! Friendship repaired. 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