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RPDR Alum Shangela, Bob The Drag Queen, And Eureka O’Hara Change Lives On HBO’s We’re Here

Apr 23, 2020 By Ashley B What do you think?

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Can I get an amen for the latest HBO series starringย RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Shangela, Bob The Drag Queen, and Eureka O’Hara? These Queens will change the lives of small town inhabitants with their new show, “We’re Here.”

How did the show get its title?

We’re Here’s title is derived fromย the LGBTQ activist organization Queer Nationโ€™s famous chant from the 1990s HIV/AIDS protests: โ€œWeโ€™re here, weโ€™re queer, get used to it.โ€ Ru’s chosen girls travel to a different part of small-town America for each episode. They partner with one of the locals, get to know them and their families, and provide a crash course in drag.

Who is We’re Here’s target audience?

Co-creator Stephen Warren explained, โ€œIt extends to anyone who doesnโ€™t feel seen. Anyone who feels like their voices arenโ€™t being heard in the mainstream,โ€ said Warren. Fellow co-creator Johnnie Ingram added , โ€œWeโ€™re coming into your town and weโ€™re putting on a drag show, and weโ€™re going to bring you into our world and weโ€™re going to tell your story to your community through this counterculture.โ€

What to expect:

According to Yahoo! Entertainment, “Yes, the show does put people in drag and have them perform a number with three fan-favorite ‘RuPaulโ€™s Drag Race’ alums. And, okay, yes, one participant in the first episode does express interest in pursuing a career in drag. But the wigs and the heels and the makeup are not the point, the showโ€™s stars and producers say. The person who exists beneath all that, and the life they go back to when they step off the stage, thatโ€™s the point.”

โ€œ’Weโ€™re Here’ does not dwell on scenes of the fledgling queens doing things like tucking for the first time or learning to walk in heels. In fact, the majority of the show sees the queens out of costume, spending time with their drag daughters and getting to now them person-to-person. Whether thatโ€™s a young queer man feeling trapped in his hometown or a mother hoping to reconnect with the daughter she had a falling out with or a straight father looking to challenge his own ideas of masculinity,” continued the report from Yahoo! Entertainment.

The star’s origin stories:

Shangela, Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka O’Hara all grew up in small towns, and each said they can relate to the experience of feeling out of place in their hometowns, as featured on the show.

Shangela:

โ€œLooking around, I never saw anyone that I thought was like me,โ€ explained the fan favorite who grew up in the 25,000-person city of Paris, Texas. โ€œI was a small, gay black kid in a very rural community. Even in television and film, I didnโ€™t see anyone that was out and flamboyant, a little boy doing Beyonce choreography.โ€

Bob the Drag Queen:

โ€œThe majority of my life is not competing on โ€˜RuPaulโ€™s Drag Race,โ€™ so if anything,ย that was unusual,โ€ Bob detailed. โ€œThis is just interacting with people as a human, which is what Iโ€™ve been doing for 33 years now. So it didnโ€™t seem weird at all.โ€

Eureka O’Hara:

โ€œ’At first, I was a little worried,’ noted Eureka. ‘I do like to give advice โ€” Iโ€™m better at giving it than taking it โ€” but I was nervous at first. I was like, โ€˜Oh, my God, Iโ€™m not a psychologist, Iโ€™m gonna try to help these people and end up fโ€”ing them up’ ย โ€ฆ but I kind of live and thrive off my interactions with people; itโ€™s kind of what I was built for. And I didnโ€™t realize it until I started doing the show.โ€

โ€œWeโ€™re Hereโ€ premieres Thursday, April 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO.

Which RPDR alumni are you most excited to see on We’re Here? Drop names in the comments!

 

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