With each passing season, it feels like the mission of We’re Here becomes more and more urgent.
The premise of the HBO reality show is simple: Each episode, three drag superstars—Bob The Drag Queen, Eureka, Shangela—arrive to a new small town, where they recruit three residents to perform in a spectacular, one-night-only drag show.
In the past, this often meant these queens were exposing people to the art of drag for the first time. Sure, they’d encounter pushback and prejudice, but with open hearts, a little queer magic, and a whole lot of lip liner, We’re Here always underscored the power of compassion, and shined a spotlight on the strength of the LGBTQ community, especially in rural America.
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And while that certainly remains true for the GLAAD Media Award-winning series in its third season, it also sees these queens traveling the country at a time when anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is on the rise. Between “Don’t Say Gay” and laws of its ilk, restrictions on gender-affirming care, and a push to label drag queens as a danger to children, there’s an even greater need for the queer visibility and positive messaging that this show can provide.
“They’re more vocal and more visible in their hatred,” series co-creator Stephen Warren told EW when discussing filming in largely conservative areas. “There’s a brazenness to it that we didn’t really experience to a large degree in the past.”
Shangela echoes that sentiment in We’re Here’s new trailer: “This has been different than any other experience we’ve had in the history of doing this show.”
Still, she and her sisters march on—in stiletto heels, no less! This third season follows the queens on visits to Granbury, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi to Sussex, New Jersey to St. George, Utah, a town with a majority Mormon population where the show’s production was met with opposition from city officials.
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The trio will also be heading to Brevard County, Florida—just outside of Orlando, where Disney has become something of a moral battleground in the wake of Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill. In what sounds like an emotional episode, the queens will also pay a visit to Pulse nightclub, and recruit a survivor from the 2016 massacre to be one of their “drag children” for a triumphant, uplifting performance.
We’re Here season 3 is almost here, and it’s going to be one you won’t want to miss. The show returns Friday, November 25 on HBO, and will stream simultaneously on HBO Max. New episodes will air weekly.
Watch the trailer for We’re Here’s third season below:
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williamdaw
It’s only gonna get worse, before it’s better.
RoEl
HOW can anyone step out PUBLICLY to oppose a bill they haven’t even READ?
IT. DOES NOT. SAY:
“Don’t Say Gay” –
or even ALLUDE to it.
The bill was written in order to protect school kids from indoctrination by teachers and/or administrations with twisted, fascistic agendas.
Our school kids ARE being indoctrinated in public schools – I’ve seen the evidence and the testimonies about it. The greatest FOCUS of that indoctrination agenda is to convince children, when they are even pre schoolers and up, and impressionable, that they are not the gender they were born to be and to encourage them to seek to become trans.
The stories of kids who become convinced they were trans, went through the hormones and surgery – THEN realized they had made a MISTAKE, are absolutely TRAGIC, and the aftermath of trying to de-trans and to adjust to the life altering butchery committed upon them is like a HOLOCAUST for them. The suicide rates among transgender people are horrific, and the numbers have only steadily inclined since around the 80’s when transgender surgery became well known.
It’s UNCONSCIONABLE.
This process, being foisted upon under age children, should be considered CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY And it is OUR TAX DOLLARS that are paying for those butcheries. They are STERILIZED FOR LIFE before they’re even OLD enough to know if they want CHILDREN. THAT’S the GOAL.
The agenda also focuses on stressing the question of sexuality and using the subject of homosexuality in a way to make it appealing to kids, again in order to be accepted and popular. Before they’ve even been through puberty, before they’re old enough to decide for themselves who and what they are, this indoctrination gets used against them to influence them about issues they are too YOUNG to make major life decisions about.
Kids fall for it because they will be attracted to anything if it’s popular and lets them fit in.
And, what’s the POINT of the transgender/Gay indoctrination?
POPULATION CONTROL. PERIOD.
I grew up Gay, before you start with the homophobe stuff. I am now 61 and I haven’t changed in the way I feel, but I HAVE changed my lifestyle. I am celibate by choice, for spiritual reasons, and looking back, I actually wish I had REMAINED that way for my whole life. Being Gay never did me any favors, but certainly led to my making some pretty bad mistakes. I should have honored my God instead of my SELF.
But I digress.
If Americans cannot see that agendas are being used against us, and against our children, by those in power, designed to DESTROY our country, AND us, then they have to be living on another planet.
And then there’s the mandated SHOT – a FAKE “vaccine” BIOWEAPON meant to genocide BILLIONS of people. And it’s WORKING.
Millions of people are now either horrifically sick – or DEAD, from those shots –
And it was all BY DESIGN.
It is estimated that OVER FIVE BILLION PEOPLE were “vaccinated”. And at least 20 to 30 percent of those batches of shots were the POISON ones, and the rest were saline. This was done so that people wouldn’t die off in large numbers too quickly – that could get noticed. So they simply continued to release batches that contained 20 to 30 percent of bioweapons, and the rest placebos.
Vials from these batches were TESTED by some of the top experts on the planet – and the results they found from their analyses were NIGHTMARISH.
I don’t even want to TELL you what’s in them – but it AIN’T good. And it CERTAINLY doesn’t protect from covid or any OTHER virus –
It was designed to KILL you.
You can find a ton of info about them on Bitchute. Use the search term “graphene oxide (or hydroxide)” and you’ll find more than you want to know, especially if you’re vaccinated –
But at the very least, you can be treated for it and helped, and you can find THAT info on the same site as well.
But where you WON’T find any info at ALL about the vials and the analyses many have done upon them is GOOGLE, because they are compromised and heavily censored – because Google belongs to some of the same people perpetrating these agendas.
For instance there was a news story that Italian scientists discovered that covid is a bacteria – but you’ll never find that story – you’ll only find PAGES of links to articles that DEBUNK the Italian story.
Google is a fascist/communist organization. It is OWNED by Communists, using it in a FASCIST utilization.
The group of people behind the veil who implement these agendas don’t like you very much. They basically want to be rid of you and everyone else possible, intending only a few million survivors whom they intend to enslave. They are the New World Order and we are in the midst of a changing world.
They want a one world govt.. And they have made much progress over the past decades.
The problem is people react with their FEELINGS instead of their LOGIC and common sense.
They’re coming after you too, but at the very least, you don’t HAVE to fall for their lies and deceptions.
Research is a very worthwhile tool to TRUTH.
Gable
I’m afraid you have let yourself be taken in by lies. Research can be a worthwhile tool to truth, but without a very good ability to discern truth from the lies on the Internet, people are often fooled by the lies. I suggest you stop doing your ‘research’ on the Internet and start doing your research at your local library. Librarians do a very good job of keeping the lies out of the books in the non-fiction section of the library.
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When bully’s are still a major issue of suffering in schools …the word gay is nothing ….until a depraved dirty minded right winger uses their filthy mind to make it mean something ….it’s not the gays , it’s the Christian’s who need to feed their low self esteem and just use god as a front to trash others so they can feel better about who they are….leave it the Christians to be thinking about gay sexuality instead of reading their Bible and minding their own business .
missvamp
i already watched the granbury episode & it made me sad. i have family from there. the vitriol didn’t shock me, but it still saddened me. my state is still so backwards & those small towns are why this state is still red. i’m so ashamed of how people treated them.