She especially felt it when We’re Here’s producers ensured the set would be heavily populated by LGBTQ camera operators, glam squads, stylists, choreographers, and more.
She felt it when she and her cast, Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka O’Hara, were given consulting producer credits on the show before filming commenced on its pilot early last summer. She’d felt it before, like when the marketing team behind We’re Here-in which three drag queens visit small towns across America to remind viewers that, titularly, LGBTQ residents have been there all along-picked her brain for strategies that ultimately resulted in sky-high billboards with its stars in high drag towering over Times Square and Sunset Boulevard. That was the moment Shangela realized HBO had become one of the most queer-friendly networks on television. Life Is More Complex Than One Coming Out Speech
