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Latrice Royale Walked Into We’re Here With No Fear
“It’s going to take a lot more than idle threats to deter me.”
Instead, the new season focused on just two small towns — Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Bartlesville, Oklahoma — that had dealt with hotheaded community problems following recent Pride celebrations featuring drag queens. Latrice has spent years in the drag trenches, and her backstory — a stint in prison, a charming marriage, and her current life in Florida — leads you to believe she cares about what’s happening in Bartlesville and that she can relate: When she tells a poster-waving anti-gay protester in Oklahoma that she’s open to having a conversation with him, you believe it, and when she pushes back at a Black Republican spokeswoman’s preposterous notion that queens are exposing themselves to children, you want to scream, “Yes, that!” (“Do you know how many pairs of tights drag queens wear? If everyone leaves those small towns to move to better, more accepting places, then there’s no more Randy and Kevin, no more people living with their husbands showing the kids — and the adults — that all the horrible stuff they think or that they’ve heard isn’t true.
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