Carole Horst Would you like your social-justice messages delivered with a huge dose of glamour from three world-class drag queens?
Then “We’re Here” is for you!The premise is slyly subversive: Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka and Shangela roll into a small town in a more conservative part of the country, seek out the LGBTQ+ community and allies there to perform in a drag show, drum up publicity for it, then unleash fabulousness into the universe.Along the way, they hear heart-wrenching stories, joyous stories, survivor stories, sad stories and infuriating stories, culminating in an empowering drag performance that can be parts happy, raunchy, poignant, sexy and always eye-popping (because there are still tons of sequins and enormous wigs).
And they always come back to the importance of family — whether that’s biological or chosen or both, it’s all about that strength. “You are the product of some strong-ass people.
Celebrate who you are!” exhorts one Black woman in the Selma, Ala., episode, to the queens. Her words carry weight: She was injured in the 1965 Bloody Sunday March in the city.
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