I think it takes the show to a new place of not being just entertainment, but something that people need to watch.
The juxtaposition of the beauty of people wanting to express their true selves with the weight of society and this theocracy that people in many of these towns want to impose-wanting to quash every ounce of queerness imaginable-has made this season more important than ever. We wanted to continue to tell people’s stories in the most authentic way possible, but we also wanted to be able to document the resistance and the hate that we encountered. Knowing where we were going, we thought that we may find things to be a bit different, but we didn’t have any real clue until we actually got there just how depressing, violent, and rageful some of these places could be. Stephen Warren: “We didn’t know what we were going to come up against, but we could feel that there was a general sense that this country was going into a very dark place. What was your approach going into this third season? I was so involved in the lives of all of the people who we meet and their stories. James Kleinmann, The Queer Review: I’ve seen the first three episodes of the season so far and it already feels like deeper, richer storytelling this time around. Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela in Jackson, Mississippi.
In each town, the iconic trio inspire their “drag kids” to express their authentic selves in front of their families, friends, and communities by performing in empowering one-night-only drag shows. Confronted by more open hostility than ever, the queens’ presence proves to be urgently needed. This season sees drag legends, Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela Laquifa Wadley head to Texas, Mississippi, Utah, New Jersey, and Florida, helping to unite the queer community that they find there, while spreading love and acceptance through the art of drag. They discuss the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes and the brave people speaking up to bigotry that they encountered as they continued to document their road trip to small towns across the USA. With the first two episodes of season three of the Emmy & GLAAD Award-winning unscripted series We’re Here now streaming on HBO Max-and new episodes airing on Fridays at 10pm ET/PT on HBO- The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann had an exclusive conversation with its creators and executive producers, Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram.
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