‘Queer Eye’: How Angel Flores Made This Season The Most Groundbreaking Ever

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Every participant who gets a lifestyle makeover on Queer Eye is referred to as a hero, but never as a trailblazer. That changed with the arrival of Angel Flores.Flores of Austin, TX.

became the first trans woman to be featured on the Netflix show. In the season six episode titled “Angel Gets her Wings,” the Fab Five hosts — Karamo Brown, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk and Antoni Porowski — not only helped Flores regain her self-confidence, but also helped her reconnect with her father, Jose.

The episode was so life-affirming that Berk said at a recent TV Academy Event that “if they ever bring back Queer Eye in 15 years, I hope [Angel is] one of the hosts.”Here, Flores — who now travels as a trans right activist — talks about becoming the latest groundbreaking element of the pioneering show and what it was like to reconnect with her father while the cameras were rolling. “Karamo Brown approached me right before we started filming and said, ‘look, if you don’t wanna go through with this right now, I can go over there and just say, we’re not gonna do this today,'” Flores recalled. “That check-in kind of summed up the entirety of the week, where I felt safe enough.”DEADLINE How has your life changed since you appeared on Queer Eye?ANGEL FLORES It’s been a whirlwind.

I’ve been across the nation and across the world and back. A lot of it has been activism, helping, visiting, and speaking to kids.