![]() ![]() Afterwards it was just Mehgan & Andrea vs the house with the latter being completely unwarranted. You know when you are binging too much Melrose when you notice the constant use of stock footage (the runner and the milkman) in many episodes while the opening credits run.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I really thought it plummeted after Christina’s exit. My Thoughts: This was an awesome All-Stars Season, having more All-Stars really made this season more fun to watch. So go out in the local elections, midterms - it’s not just the presidential elections. We have these laws coming down the pike because are being voted in, and so they feel like they can pass these laws. ![]() We can have all the community and all the allyship that we want, but if we’re not voting into office the people that are going to look out for our interests, it doesn’t help. You may not have them around you in your small town, but there is the internet - build a community and seek solace in that. To queer kids living in states that are passing laws targeting their freedoms, she urges, “Find your family and find people who support you. The Drag Race champ is aware that the privilege of expression afforded to her by her platform doesn’t apply to everyone. “I just feel like, ‘We can’t let them do that to us.’ But it’s a very hard time. “That’s warranted, that’s very valid,” she says. The queen is quick to clarify that the change in the atmosphere isn’t affecting her itinerary: “Is that going to deter me from going home and doing drag or going to the South and doing drag? Absolutely not.” Still, she notes that several of her sisters have begun avoiding drag performances in certain parts of the country because they don’t want to risk their safety by becoming “a focal point” for outraged - and perhaps even violent - people. “It’s heavier, much more than it was when I was growing up… I felt safe enough to go to prom in drag 10 years ago, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I could do that now.’ It feels more conservative than it did even 10 years ago. I felt like there’s a contention there,” Symone says of a recent visit to her home state. While the regressive laws aren’t exactly quashing expression in queer meccas like WeHo, Symone knows that other communities aren’t so lucky. She’ll walk the Met Gala one month, pop up in a music video (“Simple Times”) from Nashville singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves the next, all while continuing to chart a course through Los Angeles nightlife via the House of Avalon collective. ![]() “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is what’s missing in my life.’ ”Īs one of the drag queens to be catapulted into cultural consciousness by the hit reality competition, Symone continues to operate by her own rules. “It gave me permission to be myself,” she says of the art form. By 18, she left the house in drag for the first time - to attend her senior prom.Ī stint at a club on amateur night followed a few months later, and she’s been doing drag ever since. Growing up in Conway, Arkansas, the self-described “shy, reserved kid” began doing her own makeup after school around age 16. ![]() “Ultimately, they don’t want people to feel that they can express themselves and be different - or that there’s a different way of living outside of the norm.”Īn urge to break out of the box was exactly what brought Symone to drag in the first place. It’s easier than dealing with what’s actually going on in the country,” she continues. Gay people, trans people, our whole community has always been an easy mark. ![]()
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