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Pride Month has always been a time of celebration for the LGBTQ community and its allies. Along with the evolution of Pride, there have been improvements in the film and TV industry regarding queer media. My early references for queer stories were films like Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman and Sally Potter’s Orland…

Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O'Hara and Shangela will be back with more fun in small-town America in a third season of We’re Here which was greenlit on Thursday by HBO. The series follows the trio as they travel across the U.S. spreading love and connection through the art of drag. In Season 2, they recruited local…

An Indiana pastor removed from his ministry after appearing in drag on HBO’s We’re Here received a message of support from GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ advocacy organization. “Pastor Craig Duke stepped into a community that has experienced disproportionate church-based trauma to proclaim a message of God's love for all of…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues a turn in the barrel with today’s staff walkout to protest displeasure with Dave Chappelle’s The Closer. Across the dial, HBO has upcoming an episode of its reality series We're Here airing November 1 that was filmed in Selma, Alabama. A trio of people — trans, gay and the mother of a…

Guess who’s back? Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O'Hara, and Shangela are ready to dance into the hearts of small-town America in season 2 of HBO’s We’re Here, returning on National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11 starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The Emmy Award-nominated unscripted series will debut new episodes weekly on HBO and will…

GLAAD ruled Thursday night with a virtual ceremony for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards which honors media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. The ceremony premiered on YouTube on Thursday night, but if you missed out, it will be available to stream on Hulu starting at 10pm ET…

At first glance, HBO’s We’re Here can be categorized as a makeover show that aligns with the 1995 cult classic To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Three drag queens come into a small town, teach cisgender people how to be more fabulous, and then leave knowing that they have taught a lesson of…

When Peter LoGreco was approached for We're Here, he was initially reluctant to get involved, as the HBO series' director and showrunner. Created by Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren, the reality series would center on Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O'Hara and Shangela—former contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race—following…

We’re Here can now say “We’re back.” On the heels of Thursday night’s Season 1 finale, HBO has renewed the hit unscripted drag show for a second season. "We're Here resonates in ways we had hoped for but couldn't really have anticipated," said Nina Rosenstein, EVP of HBO Programming. "The stories of our small-town…

As HBO’s unscripted series We’re Here ends its inaugural season, it ushers in Pride month — and there isn’t a better way to do that than with celebrated drag queens Shangela, Eureka O’ Hara and Bob the Drag Queen. The gag-worthy queens traveled across the country and visited different small towns where they would…

Television production remains shut down nearly everywhere except Iceland and South Korea because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the streamers and premium cablers still have a deep bench of new series hitting the small screen. A coterie that will see one offering as the show you have to watch – as you can see by…

HBO has ordered We’re Here, a six-part unscripted series that recruits small-town residents across America to participate in a one-night-only drag show, from Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram and Industrial Media’s The Intellectual Property Corporation. We’re Here will debut this spring on HBO. In each episode…