Eight years ago, RuPaul Charles brought nine relatively unknown drag queens from across America into one workroom for a reality-based competition series best described as a hybrid of Americas Next Top Model and Project Runway.

No one expected it to become one of the most successful LGBTQ television shows of all time.

On March 24, the ninth season of the Emmy-winning RuPauls Drag Race franchise debuts but this time on a new network, in a new time slot with a new audience. For the first time ever, viewers will watch Drag Race on VH1 during primetime on Friday nights instead of Mondays on Logo , the largest exclusively gay network on TV. An encore of the show will still play on Logo every Monday.

When Logo announced the decision, the reaction was both polarizing and revealing of how intimately intertwined Drag Race has become with LGBTQ culture. The move not only affects the network and the shows audience, but also local queer communities that have championed and sustained Drag Race from its humble beginnings.

Drag Race leaving Logo is monumentally significant for the network, whose relevancy has largely been predicated on the shows success. But the hub of gay TV is much more than Drag Race, with programming encompassing documentaries, feature films, web series and other reality-based content. And now Logo and LGBTQ people everywhere must decide what the future of queer storytelling looks like as Drag Race finds itself on a more mainstream network.