We're Here: Season 1

November 25, 2022 1:32 PM - Season 1 (Full Season)

Renowned drag queens Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela Laquifa Wadley journey across small-town America, spreading love and connection through the transformative art of drag. Theme song "I Am America" is by the incomparable Shea Diamond.

Season 1 visits the following cities:
1. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2. Twin Falls, Idaho
3. Branson, Missouri
4. Farmington, New Mexico
5. Ruston, Louisiana
6. Spartanburg, South Carolina (interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but episode details the personal drag histories of Bob, Eureka, and Shangela)

Available to stream in the U.S. via HBO.

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posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide (3 comments total)

I just started watching this today. Now on the Branson episode.

Bob is talking to a young man who stopped identifying as gay - apparently because his experiences with gay culture involved a lot of substance abuse, and when he quit drugs he felt he had to let go of that too.

He says he struggles every day but has to have faith.

I just got off the phone with a relative whose immediate family, faithful to their church, spent his entire childhood trying to pray and punish the gay away. Those relationships are permanently damaged. It’s terrible.

Why is *that* the faith that people feel they have to keep, when it makes no sense and turns them against those they love?
posted by bunderful at 6:00 PM on November 26, 2022

Am in love.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:50 PM on November 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

Interview with Bob the Drag Queen and Darryl Jones (aka Darrylina of the House of Joneses) from Episode 1.
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 9:51 AM on December 9, 2022