‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 14 Queen Jasmine Kennedie on Coming Out During ‘Untucked’: An ‘Uplifting Moment’

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Watch TheWrap’s full Q&A with the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” family at this link. The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchise is up for 11 Emmys, including Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program for “Untucked,” the documentary-like series that follows the competing Queens backstage as they decompress during a break.

While “Drag Race” and all its offshoots are full of LGBTQ+ representation, the most recent season of “Untucked” was extra special as it saw Season 14 Queen Jasmine Kennedie come out while holding the hand of her sister Kerri Colby.As TheWrap spoke with Jasmine, Kerri, and executive producers Mandy Salangsang and Tom Campbell during the Awards Season Screening of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” they addressed having that powerful, personal and touching moment captured on TV.“Up until that point into that season, I would say I was very comfortable with a camera around me.

I will say I was very loose and didn’t really have any, you know, awareness of what was going on in the sense of like, ‘Oh! We’re filming a reality TV show.’ That kind of just went to the backburner,” Jasmine said. “And in that perfect amalgamation of what happened in that on ‘Untucked’ about [guest judge] Ts coming [into the werkroom], as well as Deja [Skye] sparking the conversation of transitioning, and people wondering if they were [transgender], and I think, you know, up until that point, I really had to fight kind of like, ‘the group,’ I guess you could say, idea of who I was.”Jasmine said that as the conversation took place the Queens got a sense of who she really is.“And that’s where I started feeling a little bit more comfortable about talking about it.