'Drag Race' stars Jaida Essence Hall, Priyanka, and Sasha Velour face public harassment and homophobic slurs in shocking 'We're Here' season 4 premiere: 'There is a threat of violence that feels a little more palpable.'
Jaida Essence Hall, Priyanka, and Sasha Velour also visit the Tennessee governor's office "under threat of being arrested."Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' beat reporter, host of 'Quick Drag' Twitter Spaces, and cohost of 'EW's BINGE' podcast. Almost all of the drag content on this site is my fault .) descend upon the conservative town of Shelbyville, Tenn.
Later, as Sasha and Priyanka walk down a city street, someone in a passing white truck shouts at them. Sasha gestures to the vehicle and smiles, but a man inside yells "f----ts" back at her. "He did say f--. Thank you, I love that word," Sasha says. She adds in a later confessional: "The fact that within 24 hours of being in Tennessee, we are called f----ts, feels like a warning, like a reminder to stay in your place. They don't want you there, they don't want to see you. There is a threat of violence that feels a little more palpable than maybe I'm used to.
"Right now in the world, unfortunately, queer people, people of color, trans people, and people who are different are being extremely targeted," Jaida says at the top of the episode, before the queens stumble upon one of the area's monuments to the confederacy that was erected in 2011. "What does this tell you about this place?" Jaida asks. "Who in this town, in 2011, knows any f---ing person that was in this war to be like, 'You know what, I really miss my cousin. Let's make sure we honor him.
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