♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Bob: we are in spartanburg.
>> Eureka: ooh!
Country south carolina.
>> Shangela: welcome back to the
South.
>> Eureka: I'm from like two
Hours north of here.
I used to literally do shows
Here.
So crazy.
>> Bob: hi, I'm bob the drag the
Queen coming to live from
Spartanburg, south carolina.
>> Shangela: good morning.
>> Eureka: southern people I
Think they're just like
Naturally really nice and
Welcoming.
They're like, have a lovely day,
Bless your heart, oh, my
Goodness I love your earrings.
>> Shangela: it's good nice and
Country.
There are big wraparound
Porches, large columns at the
Plantation homes.
It's bougee, it's like mint
Julep and a debutant ball.
♪ ♪
>> Bob: so we've been in
Quarantine now for over a year
Now.
>> Eureka: I am in the car, I'm
On my way we're going back to
Spartanburg.
I can't wait.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: I'm excited to be
Back, very bright, it's
Beautiful here.
>> Bob: I remember, thinking
We'd be back shortly, everyone
Was like, I'll see you, see you
In a month, maybe two.
A lot has happened in the past
Year.
Everything changed.
>> Shangela: am I glad to be
Back here?
Yes.
Especially come back with a
Purpose.
>> Eureka: I do feel like this
Energy of like coming out of
Covid people are just living
Their lives, I'm like okay,
Cool, work.
>> Shangela: hi!
>> Eureka: oh, my god.
>> Shangela: oh, my•
>> Eureka: it is so good to see
You.
>> Shangela: well, halleloo.
>> Eureka: ooh.
Come here.
>> Shangela: group hug.
>> Eureka: oh, my gosh.
>> Bob: we're back.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Shangela: oh, we're having
Tea on a porch in south
Carolina.
>> Pontheola: in south carolina.
>> Shangela: in spartanburg.
>> Eureka: this is so nice.
>> Bob: you running out of tea,
Eureka?
>> Eureka: oh, I'm sorry you
Want more tea?
Someone's stingy.
>> Shangela: no darling, thank
You so much, I'm on a tea diet.
>> Eureka: it's a gorgeous
Place.
I love the grounds.
>> Pontheola: thank you.
We work hard at it.
>> Bob: to see this home
Reclaimed, black owned.
>> Pontheola: oh, yes.
>> Bob: this is amazing.
♪ ♪
>> Shangela: have you ever had
Tea with three drag queens on
This porch?
>> Pontheola: no I haven't, this
Is a first for me.
>> Shangela: to firsts.
>> Pontheola: to firsts.
>> Eureka: that's the tea.
♪ ♪
>> Pontheola: and I'm glad
You're here.
>> Shangela: oh, thank you.
>> Pontheola: yes.
I just love it.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Bob: spartanburg, we're back
Baby.
>> Woman: I recognize y'all.
>> Bob: hi.
>> Shangela: I am so sorry,
Thank you.
>> Eureka: guess who's back.
>> Shangela: that's right, we're
Here.
♪ ♪
>> Bob: gotta try the cheese
Sticks.
>> Eureka: oh, my god!
Uh, shangela, I'm a bartender.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: she's working it
Again, she's working it again,
I'm making mine.
>> Shangela: girl, those are one
Hundreds.
>> Shangela: it's nice to be
Able to come back to spartanburg
'Cause it's been over year since
We first met our drag kids and
Back then it was a whole
Different feeling.
[Chickens clucking]
>> Eureka: all right, miss noah.
Oh hi.
Oh hi!
>> Noah: oh, my f*cking god.
>> Eureka: oh, you're so cute.
Ahhh.
>> Eureka: did you do this?
>> Noah: yes.
>> Eureka: is there something
You might add?
>> Noah: yeah, it's just
Expressionistic, abstract
Design, yeah.
>> Eureka: work, I like you.
Noah: it's pretty small.
Little ranch style house.
>> Eureka: oh, cute.
This isn't very small.
I live in l.a. In the tiniest
Apartment.
>> Eureka: oh, I love this back
Porch.
Ooh, of course, and she's got
c*ck everywhere.
>> Eureka: they're all running
Away.
>> Noah: oh, yeah, they're
Terrified.
>> Eureka: that's cute.
>> Noah: very terrified
Animals.
>> Eureka: you know I have to be
Careful with plastic chairs,
Miss thing.
Work, oh, I love it.
>> Noah: you got it.
>> Eureka: so wait, you're from
Here?
>> Noah: yep.
I've been here my
Whole life and I've seen the
Changes that um, this town has
Gone through and it's still bad
But I mean I remember days like
Going back to the castle which
Was the old night club in town,
Like people would drive by,
Throw things at us, like while
We were waiting in line, scream
f*gg*t, um, that still happens.
Like I'm afraid to hold my hand
With my partner in public here,
Just unwanted attention.
And I'm afraid to like
Present myself in the way that I
Really want to because I just
Don't want people to like stare
At me.
>> Eureka: how do you identify?
>> Noah: um, I identify as
Male.
>> Eureka: male?
>> Noah: but it's confused
Male.
Yeah.
>> Eureka: that's
Understandable.
I think there's a gray area, I
Live in it.
I, I'm gender neutral, gender
q*eer, I go by they, or eureka,
Or david, if you're feeling
Nasty.
>> Noah: david?
>> Eureka: yeah.
So trust, I know the struggle of
Like the roller coaster that
Gender can be as like a q*eer
Male you know.
>> Noah: well I'm like really
Self conscious and I have two
Sides to me, I have a really
Confident bitchy diva queen side
And then I have like crippling
Self-doubt and it's always a
Struggle between the two.
>> Eureka: I understand that.
I mean especially in this area.
>> Noah: yep.
>> Eureka: it's hard in the
Bible belt.
>> Noah: yes, it is.
>> Eureka: you know, you already
Like express yourself like with
The earrings and the hair and
You know you're almost there but
It's like if you have more to
Show, like you're kind of like
Short changing yourself and the
World if you don't let them see
It.
You have to let that
Energy out.
>> Noah: you have to.
>> Eureka: you know and that's
Kind of what drag does too I
Think in a way like with your,
Like this feminine like persona
That you have inside is just a
Way to like let that energy out.
>> Noah: yes.
>> Eureka: there's a lot of
Difficulties when it comes to
Gender identity for noah.
Noah is afraid for the world to
See him in this q*eer feminine
Side of themselves.
I can relate with that, I think
Any q*eer person can, I think
We're raised to think that who
We are is wrong.
It gets exhausting to
Feel like sh*t about yourself.
>> Noah: I think it'll help me
With the battle of trying to get
Rid of that persona that's so
Critical in my ear.
>> Eureka: the easy part is like
The creative stuff and the
Excitement about wanting to do
Drag 'cause it's fun but the
Hard part about drag is that it
Will take you on an emotional
Journey weirdly, especially this
Experience.
I think it's important for noah
To admit to people this is who I
Am, this is how I want to
Express, because when you start
Just like taking a stand and
Being like, no b*tch
This is who I am people start
Respecting that.
>> Noah: all right, you ready to
Fly?
♪ ♪
>> Photographer: one, two and
Three.
Perfect, let's do it one more
Time.
>> Faith: okay.
>> Photographer: one, two and
Three.
>> Faith: I'm pretty comfortable
In my skin, I actually um a plus
Size model so I'm used to posing
In lingerie and almost nude like
I love my body but I can still
Walk into a restaurant and
Everybody will just stop and
They'll look because one,
There's a plus size girl with a
Crop top on and she has a face
Tattoo like.
>> Photographer: now look behind
You, you just look back at it,
There you go.
One, two and three.
>> Faith: I always knew that I
Was cut from a different cloth.
I've always been weird, quirky,
The goofy one, nobody else is
Laughing but I'm like hollering
Laughing at something that's not
Even funny.
So I've always known I was
Different.
>> Photographer: stay there,
Stay there, don't move.
>> Faith: honestly, I don't feel
Like south carolina is free, I
Feel like it boxes in the free
Spirited person.
South carolina is not an easy
Place to be h*m*.
>> Bob: ooh.
Hi!
>> Faith: oh, my god!
I didn't know it was gonna be
You!
>> Bob: oh, I'm so glad you're
Excited.
>> Faith: yeah, I am.
>> Bob: how are you?
Oh, you're so pretty.
>> Faith: oh, thanks.
>> Bob: okay, you're way
Prettier in person, I mean
You're very beautiful in videos
And pictures but you are like
Really gorgeous.
>> Faith: I knew it, I knew it,
I knew it!
Yay!
Ok, okay, okay, okay.
>> Bob: is this erykah badu?
>> Faith: yeah, I painted it.
>> Bob: oh, it's beautiful.
>> Faith: thank you.
>> Bob: did you really?
>> Faith: yeah, I painted this
One and that one.
>> Bob: these are amazing.
Are your tattoos also like the
Um, drawings?
>> Faith: so I do have like a
Lot of clients that are loyal
And they want my paintings
Tattooed on them.
>> Bob: work.
>> Faith: yeah.
>> Bob: you're a tattoo artist,
You are running in a field that
Is mostly white men.
Do your parents see it as like a
Viable means of lifestyle?
>> Faith: at first they didn't
And it wasn't until like
Recently, like when people would
Come up to my mom's job and
They're like is your daughter
Faith?
Oh my gosh, she's the best
Tattoo artist around here, you
Know like that's when they
Realized like, what you, you
Might be on to something.
>> Bob: I want a tattoo.
I kind of want a bunch of ducks
On my left leg and maybe you can
Give some suggestions.
>> Faith: yeah.
>> Bob: faith and i, we are both
Black, we're both q*eer, we're
Both southerners and we're both
Artists.
There's just so much wrapped up
In that, that lets us know how
Much we have in common.
>> Bob: the wings are like kind
Of either going around the other
Duck.
>> Faith: um, I'm successful,
Happy, I'm the first black
Female tattoo artist that's been
Licensed in the up state.
>> Bob: yeah, that is a•
>> Faith: and then with that
Bold outline, just imagine
Getting that on the wings done.
>> Bob: yeah, that would be so
Cute.
>> Faith: yeah, that'd be hot.
>> Bob: good on the skin too.
>> Faith: when I came out that I
Was g*y, everything changed.
One day you don't have a care in
The world, you don't have a
Secret, you don't have a burden
And then once you come to terms
With who you really are and you
Know that it's not accepted in
Your family then it's like
You're carrying around this
Guilt of who you really are.
>> Bob: faith is really
Beautiful and just really sweet
And really eager, really excited
But there's a vibe of like, it
Felt like she felt stifled by
Where she was.
Like, she wasn't full on code
Switching but she wasn't able to
Full on be herself either.
>> Bob: in regards to your
Family, what do you want them to
See in this performance?
>> Faith: I would, i, I just
Want them to know that i, my
Life is fun, my life is exciting
And I'm successful, I'm a great
Person and what I do, I love.
My lifestyle, I love.
I just want them to really see
It as being okay.
I want them to see that.
[Tractor engine noise]
♪ ♪
>> Olin: I'm straight, I am a
Father and I'm a husband.
To me, family comes first.
So when my big brother came to
Me and told me he wanted me to
Do this with him I just thought
You support your family, really
Regardless.
>> Shangela: hello.
Hi.
>> Olin: hey.
>> Shangela: I'm guessing that
You are olin.
>> Olin: I am, how are you?
>> Shangela: hi, nice to meet
You.
>> Olin: nice to meet you.
>> Shangela: I'm dj, or
Shangela, everybody calls me
Shangela, so feel free to.
>> Olin: okay, okay, call me
Olin.
>> Shangela: okay, consider that
Done.
>> Olin: yeah, yeah.
>> Shangela: awesome, nice to
Meet you.
>> Olin: nice to meet you.
>> Shangela: this is my first
Time to spartanburg so, are you
From here?
>> Olin: I am.
>> Shangela: oh, okay.
>> Olin: born and raised.
I've got an older brother and a
Younger sister.
>> Shangela: okay.
>> Olin: my sister and I just
Live around the corner from each
Other.
>> Shangela: okay, cool.
>> Olin: but my brother, pat, he
Lives in charleston in columbia,
He goes back and forth, he
Performs drag.
>> Shangela: what's his drag
Name?
>> Olin: patio furniture.
>> Shangela: I love it already.
All right.
>> Olin: in the southeastern
Region if you say patio
Furniture, they know patio.
>> Shangela: so, what do you
Think about in spartanburg like
I know there's a g*y pride here
But do you think that it's like
An overwhelming amount of
Support?
Do you think there's still some
Opposition?
>> Olin: I think a lot of it
Down here with us being very
Christian, you have some people
That don't acknowledge it at all
And you have some that accept it
But not want it thrown at them.
>> Shangela: mmmhmm, and what do
You think about you doing this
Show?
>> Olin: it, it, it's, I got
Extremely mixed feelings.
>> Shangela: yes.
>> Olin: I've had some friends
Of mine at work, who when they
Found out, it's absolutely not
Accepted.
>> Shangela: look, I believe in
The amount of love and respect
And admiration that you have for
Your brother, for you to take a
Walk in his shoes, literally
Take a walk in his heels just
Say hey, I'm gonna get in drag
So I can fully identify with
What you're going through,
That's gonna be a huge moment.
>> Shangela: hi.
>> Olin: hi, shangela, how are
You?
>> Shangela: good, I thought I'd
Bring a couple items by.
>> Olin: well here, let me, let
Me go ahead and grab them.
>> Shangela: hi.
>> Pat: hello, hello.
>> Shangela: hello.
>> Pat: I'm pat.
>> Shangela: oh, nice to meet
You.
>> Pat: good to see you.
>> Shangela: I'm dj but
Everybody calls me shangela.
>> Shangela: spartanburg feels
Very cordial south, you know
It's very, oh, come in, welcome
Everybody, it has a beautiful
Exterior but you know every
Beautiful exterior always has
Something else working on the
Inside.
>> Shangela: I just got to
Spartanburg today, this city is
Buzzing.
>> Papa: downtown has picked up
A lot.
>> Shangela: being in this
Community you feel like it's
Changed any over time?
How inclusive it is maybe now or
Not inclusive?
>> Papa: in nineteen fifties you
Know I didn't know what g*y was,
Never heard the term.
Now you got a bunch of letters
You gotta memorize.
>> Shangela: [laughs]
What is it olin?
It's the•
>> Olin: lgbtq community.
>> Shangela: there you go, look
At that, professional.
How long have you been
Performing?
>> Pat: twenty years.
>> Shangela: really?
Awesome.
>> Pat: and we have a great
Organization that's our local
A*DS service organization.
>> Shangela: is it a fundraiser
Event?
>> Pat: it's a fundraiser, it is
Their largest single fundraiser
And•
>> Shangela: oh, wow.
>> Pat: and um, I have been
Lucky enough to host it for the
Past ten years and love doing
It, that's a big part of what I
Do, I love•
>> Shangela: have you been to
The fundraiser before?
>> Olin: I have.
>> Shangela: papa, have you ever
Been to the fundraiser event?
>> Papa: I have not.
>> Shangela: but you've heard
About it?
>> Papa: oh, yeah, every year.
♪ ♪
>> Pat: yeah, olin would come
Out and he and his wife there a
Couple times to see me perform.
You know, having you in the
Crowd, having family there means
A lot.
Coming up this week uh,
We're gonna do a show.
>> Shangela: yes.
>> Pat: downtown, here in
Spartanburg.
>> Papa: not in columbia?
Here?
>> Shangela: no sir.
Here.
>> Papa: oh, here, okay.
>> Pat: down in morgan square.
>> Shangela: in spartanburg on
Tuesday night um, I am really
Excited because pat's gonna be
There and olin is joining me as
Well.
And they're gonna help me to
Showcase in this community how
Uh, advanced and inclusive and
Uh, like open minded this
Community is so we're putting on
A really cool drag show on
Tuesday night.
>> Papa: see I didn't know about
This.
>> Shangela: first of its kind
Sir.
So you're more than welcome if
You would like to come.
>> Papa: you will get attention.
>> Shangela: yes, sir.
>> Olin: our family, I
Understand exactly their
Feelings, they acknowledge that
Pat's g*y but they don't believe
That it's right, so I kind of
Have mixed feelings whether
They're gonna accept me wanting
To do this drag show.
And that's a scary thing.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: what size do you
Wear?
>> Noah: um, I have no idea.
>> Eureka: you don't know what
Size you wear?
>> Noah: not in dresses no.
>> Eureka: in lady's clothes?
>> Noah: mmm, mmm.
>> Eureka: shopping is my
Favorite thing.
That's cute.
>> Noah: very, very aunt nancy.
>> Eureka: listen, aunt nancy
Might dress funny but she knows
How to party.
Are you nervous?
>> Noah: yeah.
>> Eureka: being this g*y in
Public?
>> Noah: yep.
>> Eureka: why?
>> Noah: um, there's just a lot
Of haters.
>> Eureka: like what, what are
You afraid of?
That they're gonna judge you?
>> Noah: um, I'm afraid of
Getting followed and bashed.
>> Eureka: really?
>> Noah: yeah.
I've been followed before.
>> Eureka: you've been followed
Before?
>> Noah: yeah, it was on a
Night that I was kind of
Dressing really on,
Androgynously and had a lot of
Makeup on, I went out to this
Bar and there these people
Staring at me weird and I got
Followed home.
>> Eureka: do you think they
Were following you to like have
Sex with you or hurt you?
'Cause it could be either.
>> Noah: probably both.
>> Eureka: right.
They wanted to k*ll me and have
Sex with my dead body.
>> Noah: [laughs]
>> Eureka: very dommer fish.
I'm getting my daughter ready
For the prom.
>> Noah: okay.
>> Eureka: I'll be right here if
You need me.
>> Noah: okay, bye.
>> Eureka: how does it feel?
Do we like it?
Work!
This is my favorite.
Oh my god, I love this.
We gotta give this a little
Strut.
>> Noah: a strut?
>> Eureka: oh, my god, give me a
Little strut.
Who cares about these people.
You can do it.
Hey, anybody in the store, I
Want, I want you all to
Watch my drag daughter right now
'Cause she's nervous and we're
Gonna applaud her.
Miss miranda petri o'hara.
Work.
See, yes!
Come on sis, work.
She says, oh, these old things.
These mean nothing.
Ok, you gotta give me a snap.
Snap, snap mama.
Come on work.
Yes, work, yes.
Oh, my god, I'm so proud of you.
>> Noah: that was like the
Hardest thing I've ever done
Actually.
>> Eureka: was it?
>> Noah: yeah.
>> Eureka: well you looked good.
Look, see people
Literally don't care.
So how was that, weird?
>> Noah: it's weird.
>> Eureka: oh, I love you.
Ok, you can change.
You can get out now.
>> Noah: it feels so lame.
>> Eureka: you should be proud
Of yourself.
>> Noah: it was so hard.
>> Eureka: yeah?
It's hard to expose yourself.
>> Noah: yeah.
I mean even in boy
Clothes I feel uncomfortable.
>> Eureka: really?
>> Noah: I just
Wish that I liked,
[Sighs]
I wish I liked what i, what I
Looked like.
That's a big struggle.
>> Eureka: sometimes we create a
Perception of ourselves that we
Think other people see where
You're just obsessed over
Negative images of yourself.
And really it's just not true,
There's a lot of people out
There that see the beauty in you
But you have to see it too you
Know.
>> Noah: I spend a lot of time
Like hating my body too, so
Being a revealing is sometimes
Really hard unless I'm in a full
Look, don't•
>> Eureka: what do you hate
About your body?
No I'm• I'm not saying you're
Not allowed to hate your body.
>> Noah: I know.
>> Eureka: I just want to know
What you hate about your body.
>> Noah: um, really insecure
About my legs.
>> Eureka: okay.
>> Noah: 'cause they're like
Really manly and really strong
And really big and I don't like
That.
>> Eureka: that sounds wonderful
So you know what I'm saying,
It's like if you had like skinny
Little lady legs would be like
God, my legs are too lady like?
>> Noah: probably.
>> Eureka: you know what I mean.
>> Noah: yeah.
>> Eureka: so maybe it's not
Like those descriptions, maybe
It's just this idea of like
You're not enough.
If I can just get
Noah to this drag show it's
Gonna be our breakthrough
Moment.
I honestly think this is coming
At the perfect time for him.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Noah: coming out again was
Really hard because coming out
As a g*y male was already hard
And it took a lot of thought for
Me to come out of the closet
With this.
I wanted to make sure that I
Knew.
>> Noah: hey, babe.
>> Nadia: hi.
>> Noah: how are you?
>> Nadia: I'm well, how are you?
>> Noah: I'm good, I miss you.
>> Nadia: I miss you, too.
> Noah: my friend nadia was
Like one of the first people to
Really acknowledge my non-binary
Non-cis self.
>> Nadia: I don't have to work
Tonight by the way.
>> Noah: oh, perfect, we are
Gonna watch alien covenant•
All right, bye babe, love you.
>> Nadia: I love you.
>> Noah: I don't want anything.
>> Eureka: put your clothes on
And open the damn door.
Hell yeah!
Oh my god.
I love this!
>> Noah: mamacita.
>> Eureka: you look good.
>> Noah: thank you.
>> Eureka: kind of wild 'cause I
Remember the last time I met
You, you were a little more
Timid about putting yourself out
There.
>> Noah: yep.
>> Eureka: you know what I'm
Saying?
So congrats to you.
>> Noah: oh, my god, when you
Had me in that f*cking thrift
Store on the way to hampton.
>> Eureka: oh, my god, the
Thrift store was so beautiful
Though, it was a gorgeous
Moment.
To be honest.
>> Noah: you can, you can pay
Me for that trauma later.
>> Eureka: no, you can pay me
For that therapy that that
Trauma put you through okay.
>> Noah: you're right, okay,
Fine.
>> Eureka: that was converting
From fear to fearless.
>> Noah: no, thank you.
It helped.
>> Eureka: have you come out as
Non-binary?
>> Noah: yeah.
That was also a big change.
>> Eureka: full t, oh, my gosh.
>> Noah: nadia, nadia helped
Me, she was just like you feel
Very, you, you, you feel very
They, them, you feel like a they
And I was•
>> Eureka: yeah?
>> Noah: when she said that I
Was like, thank you for
Recognizing it without me having
To prompt you, like it was a big
Moment for me because I'd been
Assigned like cis, like
Masculine cis male my entire
Life.
>> Eureka: is this the infamous
Nadia?
>> Nadia: we have guests.
Hello.
>> Eureka: ahhh!
Can I hug you?
>> Nadia: yeah, absolutely.
You're so beautiful.
>> Eureka: oh, my gosh, so you
Are you.
>> Nadia: oh, my gosh, it's nice
To meet you.
>> Eureka: oh, my god, you're
Gorgina.
Come in and sit with us.
>> Noah: isn't she amazing.
>> Eureka: noah was telling me
About your all's podcast.
>> Noah: yeah.
>> Eureka: and how much you like
Really helped him.
>> Nadia: yes, that's me.
>> Noah: it is called•
>> Nadia: I'm their biggest
Fan.
>> Noah: yeah.
>> Eureka: oh, h*, h*, h*.
>> Noah: I'm, I'm her biggest
Fan, this is my hero, we are
Getting married one day.
>> Eureka: when you're forced to
Go into that dark hole, when you
Come out of it on the other side
There's a lot you can discover
And when you're a person of
Difference, it helps to have
Someone like nadia that's like
You know what, girl you are okay
Being exactly like that.
Don't be afraid to be who you
Are.
This beautiful non
Binary child of mine.
>> Nadia: yes.
Absotutely.
>> Eureka: yes, absotooter,
Tooty lootly honey.
>> Nadia: yes.
>> Faith: I know usually I put
Them in the sink but they
Haven't been getting um, like
Proper drainage so they've been
Growing like a layer of mold its
Gross so you just spritz them.
It's just a little love.
>> Shaniqua: still learning.
>> Faith: I feel like quarantine
Helped me get more in tune with
Myself because I had to heal
Myself first internally in order
To love myself.
For the first time I am in a
Happy, healthy relationship with
My partner shaniqua.
>> Shaniqua: hey babe?
>> Faith: yes?
>> Shaniqua: can you bring me
Paper towels?
>> Faith: mmmhmm.
>> Shaniqua: thanks.
>> Faith: me and shaniqua, we
Both had time to really get to
Know each other, we got close at
The perfect time.
Before quarantine I was so busy
That I didn't see value in the
People around me including her.
I just gotta get this
Bottom layer of gold.
And so when everything
Slowed down for me you know
Pretty much like, it was like
The person right in
Front of you the whole time
Who's your person.
>> Shaniqua: [unintelligible]
>> Faith: no.
There's nothing little about me.
♪ ♪
>> Faith: hello.
>> Bob: oh, my god, hey!
>> Faith: hi.
>> Bob: oh, my good it's so, I
Haven't seen you in so long.
>> Faith: oh, my goodness.
>> Bob: you look amazing.
>> Faith: no you do.
>> Bob: we do.
>> Faith: I'll take that.
>> Bob: let's have a seat.
How have you been?
What's been up with you?
>> Faith: I'm in a relationship.
>> Bob: wait, what is it, when
Did this start?
Not this, not• is she coming to
The show?
>> Faith: of course.
>> Shangela: look how long your
Beard is.
Come on in, have a seat.
Hi, pat.
>> Pat: hey, good to see you.
>> Shangela: how you guy's been?
Oh, it's been a year.
>> Olin: mmmhmm.
>> Shangela: it has been a year.
It's just crazy, I'm so thankful
To be back with you all.
>> Olin: well we're glad to be
Back, I guess.
>> Shangela: oh, yeah, what you
Mean you guess?
>> Eureka: ooh, welcome, you
Look good.
Come on, come give mama a hug.
We're gonna be dominatrixes and
We're gonna have cages, the
Whole nine yards, we're about to
Be out there.
>> Noah: okay.
>> Shangela: so who do you want
To be, who does olin want to be
When you are on stage?
Are you sassy?
Are you like sugar pie, super
Sweet, nice?
Are you the sex kitten like bam?
Mmm, mmm, mmm, are you that?
>> Eureka: really just
Expressing like this idea of
Like, no matter what people say
Like, it's your choice to be who
You are.
Ooh!
Shoes.
That's a slutty boot.
>> Noah: oh, my god.
>> Eureka: yeah.
>> Noah: those are f*cking
Amazing.
>> Shangela: do you feel nervous
Right now talking about it?
>> Olin: very nervous.
I don't dress like a woman.
I don't want to dress like a
Woman.
>> Shangela: yeah, I hear you.
>> Shangela: so, we're gonna
Shave the beard and give you,
Have you ever worn lashes
Before?
>> Olin: mmm, mmm.
I ain't never done nothing.
>> Bob: something I've been
Really thinking about is you
Blossoming into the q*eer woman,
The representation of black
Excellence that you are.
I want to turn you into like a
Flower that you are just
Obviously, clearly a flower, you
Know what I mean.
>> Gonna make a, a hell of a low
Bigger.
>> Like wynona.
>> Shangela: do you like this
Color?
>> Or would you like to try
Something different.
>> Shangela: let's compare them.
Oh, yeah.
There you go.
>> Look at, you look like
Flirty, winky eyes.
>> Shangela: that's what charter
Banks is, shmeyes.
I like this color.
>> Olin: okay.
We'll go with the color.
>> Shangela: we'll go with the
Color?
Halleloo.
All right.
>> Eureka: okay mama, you gotta
Give us a strut honey, here's
Your runway.
Oh girl, miss mistress bobo
Maxwell.
Yes.
>> She's running.
>> Eureka: she's jogging through
The halls honey.
Ooh!
Oh, can you twerk in them?
>> Noah: I cannot twerk.
>> Eureka: have you ever tried?
>> Noah: every day.
I cannot.
>> Eureka: no lie, every day.
>> Shangela: six, seven eight,
And one, two, three, four, five,
Six, seven, eight and two, two,
Look at you, ain't even gotta
Look down.
>> Olin: uh, uh.
>> Shangela: so you don't think
It's gonna work for the show?
>> Olin: not these.
>> Shangela: okay.
>> Olin: something a little bit
Shorter and maybe a little bit
Wider on the, on the heel.
>> Shangela: yes.
>> Olin: that's, that's
Something right there.
Take somebody's eye out with
That.
>> Pat: and that right there,
That right there is what I wear
Every week.
>> Shangela: halleloo.
>> Pat: I'm a camp queen, I'm a
Comedy queen.
I host and mc events for
Charity.
>> Pat: quietest room I have
Gotten ready in.
>> Olin: little bit crooked.
There you go.
>> Olin: growing up some of my
Close friends asked me, say, is
Your brother g*y.
And then I'd be like no, that's
Just him, being pat.
They didn't think that it's
Right for someone to be g*y.
>> Pat: when I put that costume
On, I will do things, say things
That I wouldn't as pat.
>> Olin: I was the last one in
The family to find out.
He had tears coming out of his
Eyes, looked pretty scared, and
He just comes out and says olin
I'm g*y.
I told him it's okay.
I mean he's my brother and I'm
Gonna love him regardless.
>> Pat: being in drag empowers
Me, I just hope that there's
Some kid out in that audience
That's hearing it and will have
The courage to live their true
Self.
>> Pat: in this 1999 movie...
Woman:
Varsity blues.
>> Pat: really hellen?
Let me explain how this sh*t
Works.
[Everyone laughs]
>> Shangela: ian, have you ever
Seen your dad dancing in the
House?
>> Ian: no.
Not•
>> Olin: tell the truth.
>> Shangela: no?
How you gonna feel ian seeing
Your dad dance on stage?
>> Ian: embarrassed.
>> Shangela: embarrassed?
How old are you?
>> Olin: but he's, he's not,
He's not•
>> Ian: eleven.
>> Olin: he's not gonna be
There.
>> Shangela: well you'll see it
One day.
Ok.
>> Olin: yeah he will, he'll see
It one day.
>> Shangela: for sure.
>> Shangela: well cool.
>> Olin: he's still, he's still
A little young.
Me be honest with you I thought
That y'all weren't gonna come
Back and it was my kind of out
And it, it was a tough decision
For me about doing this just
Because of the small town we
Live in and the way that they'll
Perceive me.
And how they're gonna
Perceive my son.
I don't want them getting
Tarnished for something that I
Believe in.
>> Shangela: but you know what?
You're standing up for your
Brother.
You're standing up to say that
Drag is a good thing and showing
Your kids everyone should be
Valued and respected.
I appreciate you for that and
We're gonna do it and do it
Well.
All right?
♪ ♪
>> Bob: faith, hi.
>> Faith: hi.
>> Bob: hey everybody, how are
You all?
>> Everyone: hi.
>> Bob: so who, who is everyone?
>> Faith: so this is my mom.
>> Mom: hi, bob.
>> Bob: hi, mom, how are you?
>> Mom: good, how are you?
>> Bob: I'm great, it's a
Pleasure meeting you.
>> Mom: nice meeting you too.
>> Faith: and so this is my
Girlfriend shaniqua.
>> Bob: I've heard a lot about
You.
>> Shaniqua: I hope; I hope it
Was good.
>> Bob: oh, all great stuff, I
Mean•
>> Faith: and so then this is my
Little sister angel.
>> Bob: oh.
>> Mom: angel.
>> Angel: nice to meet you.
>> Bob: you have a little sister
Vibe.
So I'm gonna ask um, so how is
The black scene here in
Spartanburg?
>> Faith: it's not.
>> Bob: what about q*eer culture
In this area, is there a•?
>> Angel: same.
>> Faith: bible belt here very
Much.
>> Bob: do you all ever notice
There's any h*m*, especially to
You two, have you noticed
There's any h*m*
Specifically in the black
Community here?
>> Shaniqua: I would say with me
It, within my family um, of
Course uh, I never came out when
My mom was alive but I kind of
Think she always knew, I say she
Always knew 'cause it's a key
She drank like a little boy and
I would say my mom must have
Wanted me to be g*y you know I
Liked to but as, as far as on my
Daddy's side I caught some slack
But as I you know came around
And talked to him about it you
Know a lot of people see it as
Some women wants to be a man but
That's not me so once they saw
That, i, I'm not I'm still a
Woman identity I just like
Women.
They were okay with it.
>> Mom: well a lot of time you
Just feel like it's a phase they
Going through.
>> Angel: more a phase?
>> Mom: yeah, you just feel like
It's something that they're
Going through and eventually
They'll snap out of it, you know
You'll be like okay, you're
Gonna
Wake up in three months and
You're gonna be normal right.
>> Faith: what did you think
When I didn't snap out of it
Three months in?
>> I wanted to come in the
Bedroom and go, pop!
Snap out!
But I didn't.
>> Mom: I just, I felt like she
Was just being in the closet
Shut in, just all the way shut,
Always shut inside.
So I wanted her to be happy and
She wasn't happy holding all
That in.
So I was okay, I was okay with
It.
But I love my daughter no matter
What.
That's just the way it's gonna
Be.
>> Bob: that's so cute.
>> Mom: this is my baby.
I mean it's, she put me through
Some trying times but hey I
Stood in there.
>> Bob: faith embraces the
Things that have put her on the
Fringe.
I think it goes back to her
Upbringing and, and I think she
Continues to feel like the black
Sheep.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: oh, my god, I'm so
Excited that you're here.
Marvin.
This is noah.
>> Noah: hello.
>> Eureka: obviously the
Performance is really about
Expressing yourself in a world
Where we haven't always
Expressed ourselves and now
Especially as non-binary people
I feel like you're really
Expressing yourself more, I know
I am.
>> Noah: yep.
>> Eureka: it's like you're a
Whole blossomed, like, flower.
>> Noah: I'm obsessed with your
Eyebrows.
>> Eureka: oh, these.
>> Noah: I can't stop looking at
Them.
>> Eureka: thank you.
>> Shangela: look what I wore
For you today.
>> Olin: I like that.
>> Shangela: tina turner
Sweater.
>> Olin: miss tina.
>> Marvin: tina turner.
>> Shangela: yes.
>> Bob: there we go, what is
This?
>> Faith: there has to be
Another way.
Oh no.
>> Bob: you got this.
You got this.
>> Faith: it's, I'm feeling
Really tight and uncomfortable
Here.
>> Marvin: about me• yeah,
You're fine.
>> Noah: I'll get.
>> Marvin: up, down, left,
hip•
>> Bob: if I can promise you one
Thing, I can promise you that
You will be in pain.
>> Faith: what?
>> Shangela: shimmy, shimmy.
Shimmy, shimmy.
Shimmy, shimmy.
You gotta have that groove.
You got a little groove to you.
>> Olin: you do have to have
Groove and I got a little bit, I
Got a little bit of soul left in
Me.
>> Shangela: oh, you got some
Soul left in you?
Soul.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: you're welcome baby.
>> Bob: falls down.
Have you ever been able to like
Really declare your love for
Shaniqua in front of your
Family?
>> Faith: no.
>> Bob: you should f*cking slow
Dance.
>> Faith: what?
>> Bob: you should.
It'll add•
>> Faith: I have never slow
Danced.
>> Bob: it has to happen; it
Just has to.
There, it needs to be, it needs
To happen.
>> Marvin: that would be cute,
That would be so adorable.
♪ ♪
>> Bob: oh, my god, they're
Gonna go crazy!
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: own it, you are the
One.
Who are you?
>> Noah: I'm mistress bobo
Maxwell.
>> Eureka: say it louder.
>> Noah: I'm mistress bobo
Maxwell!
>> Eureka: louder.
>> Marvin: louder.
>> Eureka: scream it.
>> All: I'm mistress bobo
Maxwell.
>> Eureka: yes, b*tch.
♪ ♪
>> Faith: now that's a lash.
>> Literally your whole eyebrow
Is gone.
>> All right, olin are you
Ready?
>> Olin: yeah.
>> Are you gonna be sad?
>> Olin: no.
>> Here comes the ladies.
It's endless.
>> Faith: my nerves are kind of
Starting to kick in but it's in
A good way.
>> Bob: now when your adrenaline
Kicks in you're invincible, your
Feet don't hurt, the corset
Doesn't feel tight.
>> Faith: okay.
♪ ♪
>> All right, let's put her in
Baw-day.
>> Faith: give me body.
That's my butt.
I waited my whole life for this
Moment.
>> Shangela: yes, pop the cheek
Bones out, look at, yes look at.
>> Olin: I've always been a bull
In a china shop.
>> Shangela: well tonight you're
Not a bull.
What are you?
>> Olin: fierce.
>> Shangela: that's right and
That's noble, how 'bout that.
Yes.
>> Pat: your brother had been
Here up until about fifteen
Minutes ago.
Your brother gone now, the queen
Has arrived.
Yes.
>> Noah: I haven't physically
Rehearsed but I've been going
Through the performance and
Every step all day long.
>> Eureka: then just believe in
Yourself like we do.
'Cause we believe in you baby.
>> It's good?
>> Faith: it feels good.
I feel like a celebrity.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: oh, my god!
Oh, my god, I love you guys so
Much.
>> Eureka: I was raised as a
Drag queen only a few hours away
From here and my drag family
Just drove up here just to be a
Part of my performance.
>> Eureka: I am literally here
Because of all you.
I would not be here today
Without you; I promise you that.
I just love you so much.
I love you so much.
>> Drag queen: we love you and
We're so proud of you.
>> Eureka: eureka was created in
This like bubble of love right
And this bubble of love just
Happens to have big boobies and
Smell like mackie.
[Laughs]
>> Shangela: coming to the stage
I'd like to introduce your
Hostess for the evening, miss
Eureka o'hara and family.
[Cheers and applause]
>> Eureka: you ready, ah ha.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: girl listen, society
Has tried to tell me my whole
Mother f*cking life that I
Wasn't hot or sexy but as a
Queen, I knew otherwise.
Now girl, let's be real, I
Wouldn't be nothing without my
Drag family always lighting a
Fire up this delicious sick
Mother f*cking a*s.
Now I want you all to meet some
Of the amazons that have lit my
Life up.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: my drag mother the
Amazing amazon, jaqueline saint
James.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: my drag sister,
Fatriana evans.
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: now next up, my baby
Girl, seeing comps o'hara.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: yes, and now here I
Come, uh, oh, b*tch, uh, oh,
Here she comes, eureka!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: all right, family.
You ready, light up the stage,
Light up the stage, light up the
Stage, light up the stage.
Light up, light up, light up,
Light up•
♪ ♪
>> Eureka: all right, b*tches.
[Cheers and applause]
[Cheers and applause]
That is the legacy that I come
From.
My original drag family.
I also have some other amazing
Friends in the audience, thank
You so much.
Pontheola.
You gave us this amazing space.
Can I get a huge round of
Applause?
[Cheers and applause]
This beautiful black woman who
Reclaimed this plantation home
In a society of rebirth and
Build up that we need in this
World right now.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
>> Faith: I'm excited to have my
Family see me, like, living in
My truth and to show people that
Hey, love has no gender it has
No race, it's just love.
>> Eureka: I want to introduce
My next entertainer who is the
Daughter of the incredible bob
The drag queen, give it up for
Big mama from the house of mama.
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
["Make you feel my love"]
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
["Make you feel my love"]
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Applause]
["Make you feel my love"]
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
>> Bob: make some noise for big
Mama.
[Cheers and applause]
I know I was, I was, that
f*cking love, I was crying, I'm
Not gonna lie, I was crying like
A b*tch, I'm not gonna lie.
After that, if shaniqua don't
Put a ring on it I'm going to
That was....
>> Faith: I do want to thank
Everybody for coming out and I
Especially want to thank my
Family and my friends thank you
All so much.
>> Noah: if I could talk to
Myself a year ago I would say
Focus on that you are valid.
Nothing that anybody else says
Matters.
>> Shangela: tonight, please
Welcome my sister eureka o'har•.
>> Eureka: with this
Performance, we're bringing the
Freak flag to spartanburg and
Maybe they'll go home and let
Their freak flag fly a little
Bit.
♪ ♪
>> Hello.
Like I told you before, I need
To to act right, noah, have some
Class.
No one's going to buy make the
Cream truck if you're handing
Out popsicles for free.
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
>> Eureka: here you go, baby.
>> Noah: it's been a really
Wonderful journey out of the
Chrysalis.
When I got done with makeup
Today, and looked in the mirror
I was like, I know you but I've
Never met you before and I love
You.
[Cheers and applause]
>> Eureka: and we love you, I
Know that's why, one more time
For miss bobo maxwell o'hora.
>> Olin: I'm thinking that this
Is a, a lot bigger than what I
Thought it would have been at
The beginning.
>> Bob: please welcome to the
Stage from shangela's house.
>> Olin: everybody knows about
Pat but this is extremely out of
My comfort zone.
>> Bob: oh, lotta furniture and
The legend miss patio furniture.
>> Olin: I think that to do
Something like this now I know a
Little bit more of what he's
Going through.
♪ ♪
>> Another day at the office.
>> Let's get to work.
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
Is a come musical
♪ ♪[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[Cheers and applause]
>> Pat: our father is here
Tonight.
This is the first time in my
Twenty-one-year career that he's
Ever seen me perform and this is
The first time he's ever seen oh
Lotta perform either.
[Cheers and applause]
You got this brother.
>> Olin: when growing up pat did
His thing and I did my thing I
Guess it was twenty years ago
Maybe, I was the last one to
Find out that he was g*y and um,
I think I was the last one
Because he was scared that I
Wasn't gonna accept him.
Uh.
[Crying]
>> Pat: I love you brother.
>> Olin: [crying]
I love you too but I'm kind of a
Manly man but um, sometimes you,
You know the old saying, think
Outside the box, sometimes you
Have to act outside the box and
There might be another time that
You might see us up on stage I
Don't know.
>> Shangela: all right, we got a
Road show.
You all give up for my new
Daughters, the one and only miss
Patti o'furniture and oh, lotta
Furniture.
>> Shangela: I'm hoping that
Olin's performance will be the
First step for the entire family
To be able to showcase their
Support of pat with no types of
Limitations on it.
It's not like we love you but
Keep the g*y stuff out there.
It's gonna be like we love you,
If this is a part of your life
And conversation, it is welcome
Here.
>> Faith: y'all, look.
God had the butt I've been
Waiting on all my life.
Ooh, child!
My body's too bootylicious for
You baby.
>> Eureka: noah!
Baby.
Well this is obviously your
Family now too so.
>> Drag queen: we're not just a
Family on stage, we are a family
In real life.
>> Eureka: I feel like we need a
Group hug moment.
Get in here, noah.
>> Pat: I'm so proud of him.
And I mean he went in a hundred
And ten percent.
Seeing the sacrifices that he
Made for me, I'm gonna have to
Step it up.
It's gonna start with tomorrow
Morning getting up real early to
Go see my nephew play baseball,
Uh, ha, but I'm gonna do it
Because I figure if, if olin can
Do all this for me, the least I
Can do is go watch sports.
>> Faith: hey baby!
>> Faith: this has to be like
One of the best feelings in my
Life, like i, like I feel
Magical.
>> Faith: did you get my story
Mama?
>> Mom: I got your story baby.
>> Faith: you got my story.
>> Mom: yes, my baby grown into
A flower pot and then she got
Watered and then she blossomed.
She blossomed.
She blossomed into the most
Beautiful individual ever.
And god just want to•
>> Faith: thanks ma.
>> Mom: just god just want to
Let you know you are loved among
Everybody.
All of us and we just adore you.
>> Faith: thank you all for
Being here.
>> Eureka: helping the q*eer
Community be relevant in
Spartanburg is important because
Being out and proud is what's
Gonna show those kids that are
Being raised in this town that
Are q*eer that there are people
Like them.
Drag heals the world.
And spartanburg is just the
Beginning.
[Laughs]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
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02x01 - Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Featuring former Drag Race contestants, documenting the drag queens as they travel across the United States to recruit small-town residents to participate in one-night-only drag shows.
Featuring former Drag Race contestants, documenting the drag queens as they travel across the United States to recruit small-town residents to participate in one-night-only drag shows.