What Bob the Drag Queen Is Listening to Right Now
Bob the Drag Queen is best known as the season-eight winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but soon she’ll become an HBO fixture. In the network’s new docuseries We’re Here, Bob and fellow Drag Race stars Eureka O’Hara and Shangela hit conservative American towns in the hopes of building bridges to acceptance. The queens put on drag shows with natives who seek out the artform as a way to work through aspects of themselves. In the premiere, one of the newly minted drag daughters is a mother who, upon her own daughter’s coming out, asked her church to pray but has since shed her antiquated worldview. The show is funny and heartwarming, but it also doesn’t flinch from looking at the bigotry that pervades the American consciousness.