[TV static drones]
[bright tone]
- There are a lot of forces in Oklahoma
that want to silence queer people,
especially in places like Bartlesville.
- We're gonna have this meet and greet.
We've taken out a full-page ad in their paper.
That got a lot of different responses.
- "Three properly placed bullets would put a quick stop
to this pedo porn BS." - Oh, wow.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- We have homosexual demons.
God calls you an abomination.
- Protesters, to me, are very scary.
You don't know if they're gonna be violent.
You don't know if they have a gun.
You don't know what's about to happen.
- A big crowd out there. We got some pushback.
If it gets too scary or they want to fight,
Bartlesville PD has at least two plainclothes in the crowd.
And then they've got some people in the balcony
up here watching for anything.
- Okay.
- We're doing it. [chuckles]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter through megaphone]
- Wearing that nasty lipstick
and then trying to say you're a man.
- I did not expect there to be so many people here.
- God hates homosexuality,
and He said homosexuals are going to hell.
[cheers and applause]
- It's the Devil. Pride came from Lucifer.
Read your Bible.
- You're a bunch of drug-crazed,
demon-possessed perverts.
- People don't stand up against sin.
That's what's wrong with this country.
They took God out of the schools.
They took God out of our country.
And that's why we're in this mess.
- Hi, everyone.
- You all are guilty of the truth of God's mercy.
- You all look gorgeous.
- Yeah. - Yes, queen!
[cheers and applause]
- We love you, Bartlesville.
[cheers and applause]
[indistinct chatter through megaphone]
Repent of your sin today and come to Jesus Christ.
- Bartlesville!
[cheers and applause]
- This is not appropriate around children, okay?
This is part of the national woke agenda,
undermining marriage and the family.
- We come to spread the truth.
Pretending to be something you're not is a lie.
- These people preach lies and hate.
That's bullying.
It pisses me off.
- Jesus ain't coming back to love on you.
He's coming back with a sword.
- Demons are alive in Bartlesville.
- You think they're gonna stay the whole time?
- Yeah.
- We have terrorists.
- Where are the people who are supposed to representing
this community?
- Do you hear him screaming about...
- OKEQ.
- There are people who are threatening this community.
Where are they at?
- They didn't even show up. - Calling them out.
- Where they at? OKEQ Bartlesville.
They ain't out here with us!
- The fact that the equality center
didn't want to participate makes me angry.
- Start acting like a real man.
- This is a wake-up call.
The rights that we have advanced,
I feel like some of them are starting
to go the opposite way.
This is a Stonewall all over again.
[cheers and applause]
- We're gonna be brave.
We have a responsibility to be bold for this community.
- If they want to be loud with their hate,
we're gonna be louder with our love, and that's just it.
I'm sorry. I got to ask a question.
- How long does it take to look that ugly?
- Would you like to have a conversation?
- How long?
How many thousands of dollars does it take to look that ugly?
- Would you like me to tell you?
- Your mirror is your worst enemy.
- Would you like to know?
- That's why you tried to disfigure
your image in the mirror.
[indistinct shouting]
- Your PMS is showing, ma'am, PMS.
- Wow.
- My wife knows her place.
[crowd booing]
- A real man is speaking over here.
[cheers and applause]
- Yes! - Hello.
I'm a real man.
A real man is speaking.
- This is what real people look like.
all: [chanting] Love wins.
Love wins.
Love wins. Love wins.
- The pouring of love that combated and drowned out
all of the hate was massive.
Complete opposite of what we heard from the equality people
telling us, no, don't come.
That spoke volumes to me.
That told me everything I needed
to know about Bartlesville.
- I'm here to support the LGBTQ community.
- Drag's been around for centuries.
It's a form of entertainment.
Why now is it offensive?
- I'm here with our church.
It was just so important to us that we weren't that,
because our God is so much bigger than that.
Our God is love.
- You're beautiful... - Thank you.
- Inside and out. - Thank you.
- So many people in our community
need something positive.
Conservative politicians in this state
and the street preacher that's caused problems for everybody
can suck my left nut.
I don't care.
- Thank you for stirring up the right noise today.
- There are people like us standing up for what's right
in every corner of this country.
We have to keep finding ways to resist and survive.
[all shout, cheer]
- When I say "we're," you say "here."
We're. all: Here!
- We're. all: Here!
[cheers and applause]
[serious music]
♪ ♪
- Hi. How are you guys?
Please come in.
Oh, someone will need to grab a chair.
Good to see you guys.
- We are talking to Father Joshua
about doing a drag show in this amazing church.
When we say "include us," we mean include us.
- Here we go. Here you go. Please sit down.
- Fabulous place. - Thank you.
I spend a lot of time here, so I'm trying to make it--
Tell me, how are you guys? - So good.
- We're so excited.
We're so grateful that you would even consider opening...
- Oh, my gosh, no.
- This sanctuary as a place to have drag.
- We are so excited to have you guys here
and celebrate your gifts and your ministry.
- I got to ask you, are there, like--
You know, it is a drag show, so we want to be respectful.
Are there any guidelines we should be mindful of?
- We have the same rules for everybody.
So the rules that apply to everyone else
also applies to you.
I like to think of it as a challenge for you guys.
Are you up for a drag challenge?
- I'm always down to have a challenge.
- Okay. So we don't allow any explicit language,
no overt sexual references,
no references to drug use. - Okay.
- And then, of course, nothing that denigrates another group
or another community.
- Me and Sasha have got this whole WAP number.
- Yeah, I'm not sure that's-- - Yeah.
- No.
Do you know what WAP is? - Yes.
- You do? - I do.
- You are progressive.
- I have nephews and nieces, so, yeah.
- What about dance style? - If it's respectful.
- Priyanka is very provocative.
- I can tell. - That's okay?
Like, that's okay?
- Bring it. - Like, just like--
- No, I feel offended. - I think they'll love me.
- Latrice is offended.
- I'm a little triggered right now.
- We'll let Latrice decide.
- I feel like people have misconceptions.
I know you don't, but so many people have misconceptions
about drag and think that we're trying to--
we need to be doing something sexual, and that's--
- That's so not it. - Drag is for everyone.
So this is gonna be a very diverse audience.
We're gonna have kids here, people from 4 to 104 here...
- That's fabulous. - Celebrating with you.
The Parish Church of Saint Jerome
has always erred on the side of inclusion,
and we're courageous in our fight
for the LGBTQIA+ community.
So this is a stand we're proud to take.
- Wow.
- Well, I really applaud your bravery and thank you.
- This is a good step in the right direction
of saying that drag can exist in any kind of space.
- Absolutely.
- Because a lot of states are trying
to put ordinances where it's, like, only for 21-plus,
only in private spaces.
- It is a sacred art, you know, and a form of self-expression.
So this is an opportunity for people who would never
have walked into a drag club, you know, to get to see
what you do and the ministry that you provide
to the community, so... - Okay.
- We're excited to be a part of that.
- Now I have to ask.
If you were to do a drag number,
what would your drag number be?
- Hands down something from "Sister Act."
[laughter]
That's screaming for a drag show.
- Absolutely.
[choir vocalizing]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Taboo. - Oh, bro.
- We should do that. That was hilarious.
- We don't have it here. - Hello, darling.
- Hey.
- How are you? - Good. How are you?
- What's the game of choice tonight?
- Brain Fart.
- Oh, I don't even know this one.
- All right, so the youngest player goes first
- All right. You go first.
- Okay. - Okay, you ready?
- I am completely obsessed with Jess and her family.
Her sweet and precocious kids
who are so different from each other and Shelly.
Everyone's nails at this table look amazing.
- Right?
- Did you all go together? - We did.
- [gasps] I love that.
- When we decided to tell the kids,
we actually told my oldest daughter first.
- To me, it was more shocking, not in, like, a bad way.
It was just because I didn't see any signs
that she would be trans.
I really didn't look at her any differently.
You know, like, I still love her the same.
- I was wondering if you've done
the classic teen girl going to the drugstore and buying
as many random makeup products as strike your fancy.
- No, I have not done that. - [chuckles]
- Red blush does actually go with a lot of skin tones.
At my school, there's obviously kids
that are gonna, like, make jokes about it.
And at my church, they don't even try.
- Microphone? - But it's a trend.
- Trends are, like, what's cool.
- Yeah, like, what's trending now.
- Like, brushed-up brows.
- Like what? - The brushed-up brows.
- Look at you.
- [crying] She's been through a lot, and, like...
it's just scary because not everybody's
going to accept her as she should be.
[soft music]
- My daughters love me.
I just wish...
I would not ever cause them pain.
[laughter]
- Would it be okay if I grabbed Shelly for a moment?
♪ ♪
Thank you so much for having a little sit-down with me.
- Yes. - How has this experience been?
The prospect of Jess doing drag, sharing your story.
- Well, I mean, so the prospect of her doing drag is--
I'm really excited for her. I think she needs this push.
Like, even just as the days are progressing,
she's coming out a little bit more,
which is good, because before, it was, what am I doing?
I can't believe I'm doing this.
Because she gets so worried about the impact
that it will have on us, on the family.
- Right.
How has disclosing that she's a woman changed her?
- She's more lighthearted.
Like, when I knew Troy, he was always, like, all business.
But with her, it feels like, hey, I can have fun with this.
I can be work and family
and Jess and--
You know?
- You're describing, like, a full person.
- Exactly.
- Like she's finally able to be a full person.
- Yeah.
- Did you have any inkling that...
that Jess was there all along?
- None. - Hmm.
- Yeah. Definitely surprised.
I'd be crying.
I'd be devastated because the person I'd been with
for 20 years, like, no longer existed.
- There's a certain loss, for sure.
- Yeah.
And it was painful because...
I'd always said, like, I like manly men, you know?
I like the beards, and I like, you know, the muscles
and stuff.
And she's like, I'm not a man.
- It's not me.
How is your relationship now?
- We're focused on, you know,
the friendship aspect of it.
I don't think she's ready to be with anyone right now...
- That's fair. - Because...
she needs to learn how to love herself and accept herself
before she can be with anyone else.
- Yeah.
- The thing that worries me is that...
she won't love herself the way that we love her.
- Yeah.
What do you think she needs to get there?
- Maybe being recognized as a woman,
you know, from someone that doesn't know
what she's been through. - Right.
- Like, getting that confirmation...
- Yeah.
- The drag show, it's gonna be amazing for her.
Jess is just coming out of her shell.
It's just helping her be more confident in who she is.
- You would miss Jess if she were to bury that again?
- I would.
I think it would be harder to let her go
than it was to let Troy go. - Whoa.
- You know? - Oh.
- So...
- Yeah.
I feel like y'all have a happiness
in this house that is--
it's just wonderful to be around, and it's inspiring.
It gives me hope for this world.
The fact that Jess's family is loving her,
cheering her on, calling her Jess is huge.
It can be so powerful to be seen as are by someone else.
I hope that'll, like, help give her a little boost
of confidence in doing this drag performance.
Let me give you a hug. - Thank you.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- In the city of Tulsa and in the state of Oklahoma,
the temperature has gone up significantly.
We've all, in our various categories--
we're really, I think, in a wave
of pretty vitriolic pushback.
- And I think at a core level, at least for me, was to realize
that we are not an island.
- Hello, everyone.
How are you? I'm Priyanka.
- We got a chance to meet with the Affirming Alliance,
which is a group of clergymen and women
from all different religious backgrounds
who get together and discuss
the importance of acceptance, a safe space within religion.
- This is super exciting.
I would say that in my lifetime,
I would never expect to speak to people like you
about equality, ever.
- In Tulsa, Oklahoma. - Yeah.
- So what are the biggest obstacles
that you're facing by doing the work that you're doing?
- I would say trying to be inclusive
is kind of a contrary notion to lots of Christians.
- I come from an evangelical background.
I come from a Southern Baptist background.
I can pronounce Jesus as a four-syllable word.
I can. [laughter]
- Okay. - You know?
We need to represent.
This is why I wear this in public,
so that people know that there is a safe and sacred space
that they can go.
- How do you deal with people saying
your religion is not truly faithful
if you welcome queer and trans people?
- Each one of us, when we decide
to become welcoming or affirming congregations,
there's a cost.
- It's our responsibility to be louder than the hate.
But it's exhausting.
- It's exhausting. - It's so exhausting, right?
When they are screaming at you,
sometimes you just have to protect yourself and just say,
like, I need to distance myself from this.
This is not a safe environment for me to be in.
- I preached a Pride sermon this summer,
and we had two drag queens do the story hour
in our congregation.
We had people leave our church because people were afraid of,
first of all, being a target, you know, once the news got out
that they would come
and someone would shoot up our congregation.
- So do all of you feel safe?
- We're out on the front lines, so...
[laughter]
- I'm scared.
I'm terrified.
- The three of us and our drag daughters
are doing a drag show inside of a church.
How do you all feel about that? [laughter]
We didn't even know how we felt about it, because we're like,
is this gonna be controversial?
Is this gonna be safe? - Yeah.
- And security is real, right?
We have security at the place where I work
because the issues are real, because there are things
that we need to be thoughtful and mindful about.
- Right. - So we always have to do--
- We have a responsibility
to the people showing up to keep them safe.
- And we live in a state where anybody can be armed
for any reason at any time.
- You are doing, literally, God's work.
♪ ♪
- This drag show--are you ready to do drag with me?
- I am living to do drag.
And this is gonna be fabulous.
- You spoke about how you really want
to infuse your two-spirit Indigenous culture
into your performance. - Yes, yes.
- So I found a song by an Indigenous artist.
- Whoa.
- Because your whole mantra, your whole goal,
your whole life mission is to make the Indigenous
and two-spirit community feel a part of something
and feel represented... - Bingo. Bingo.
- And feel alive.
- And then, in turn, taking other cultures,
other people in the group... - Mm-hmm.
- Connecting with the Indigenous
and coming together as a force. - Yeah.
Have you ever worn regalia in drag before?
- No, and I can't wait to.
Eagle wings are very powerful. - Mm-hmm.
- They're used by all Native people.
This is a grizzly black bear...
- Like, from a bear?
- Necklace that I made.
Can you imagine these claws?
- Baby. The claws. - I know.
That's what I'm saying. Eeh!
- How do you think your community is
gonna feel when they see this?
- Oh, let me just share with you.
They're gonna be so excited that you all are here
and you're recognizing them.
That alone gives healing and happiness...
- Mm-hmm.
- And they're gonna be so into it.
- The intention is celebration, power, and community.
- Yeah. - No more pain.
- No more. - No more.
- This is my secret garden.
Watch out for the hose.
- I got costumes to show you, too.
- Oh, I can't wait. - Honey.
- Can you move?
- I haven't moved in many years,
but I can be on my knees for over 30 minutes.
- Okay, nobody asked you about your knees.
- Well, I'm proud of it. - Yeah, and you know what?
Now everyone knows it.
- I know, and I want every man to know.
[ululating]
- Hip. Hip.
Pull up.
There you go. - Hips.
- Bend those knees. There you go.
- Okay. - There you go. There you go.
- You want some sunglasses? - Yeah.
- Okay, gorgeous.
- The queen has arrived. I'm here, and I'm fierce.
I'm a fierce motherfucker.
Okay, come back.
Hello, come back.
She's gone. Where did she go?
She left.
- ♪ Make some room, I'm coming in ♪
- Shake those shoulders. Yeah.
And then you go forward.
And as your tits grow,
this will just get more and more fun.
- More fluid in the arms. Fluid in the arms.
That's gorgeous.
- Point. Where's she going?
She's going that way, darling.
Follow the finger.
- Cross and cross and right.
- Yeah. Hey, hey, hey.
- I'll follow her.
- Why haven't I heard from you?
- Touch up my gloss, bitch.
- Yeah, you don't have to be a stripper.
- ♪ Make the face, the face, the face ♪
- This is your moment. This is your moment.
- I had a cramp.
- ♪ Come around like, hey ♪
- Ice cold.
- Look forward.
- ♪ Make some room, I'm coming in ♪
- Oh, I'm so proud of you. This is gonna be fun.
- Don't bow to me. I should bow to you.
You're the queen here.
- Yeah, there you go. - Okay. So it's equal now.
- You're on your knees. [laughing]
- Why are you like this?
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Without him. - Okay.
- You look so different with your face shaved.
- I know.
- I literally was staring at you, like...
- Kind of like my husband did last night in the living room.
So, first, thank you so much for all of this.
This has been amazing.
- I'm glad.
- And you all have had such an impact,
not only on, you know, myself and Kevin but Bartlesville.
Some things have come up since the meet and greet.
I'm not gonna get emotional.
A good source has told me that our Bartlesville Equality
regrets not being... - Are you serious?
- More supportive.
They heard about all of the positive feedback
and the people that showed up,
and, yeah, y'all did that.
- That is major.
- [chuckles] - That is major.
See, I had a feeling.
- This whole experience
may be lighting more fires under people.
- That's what we wanted, and that was the hope--
that we would come in
and really reignite the community and come together.
You should be able to be celebratory and proud
and happy with who you are.
- So there's hope.
- Maybe next Pride
there are gonna be some Showelles at the show.
- The agreement that they had with the city council
was for only one year, so next year it will be up.
- We could do a duet. - Okay.
Let's do it. - I mean...
I'm serious. - I got your phone number.
- Okay. [laughter]
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Brian.
- How are you, chica?
- Hello.
- You know this one. Hey, Pri.
- Oh, man.
Shall we sit?
I've been thinking a lot about the meeting
that I attended with you and the one that you led
and feeling, one, proud of everyone
that they're joining forces in sharing food after and smiling
and laughing with each other-- like, so beautiful.
And also a little bit like--
I just felt very upset for everyone as well
because there was, like, a lot of, like--
there's so little of you fighting this big fight.
- When we have 10 or 15 members here
and there are another 5 or 10 that hear about the meeting
that they missed and the next meeting has 20
and the next meeting has 25,
we're now at a point where we have
enough people for us to go out, be at events,
make sure that we are seen.
And this fall is a great time for that
because there's a lot of great powwows.
We get to play a foundational role in making sure
that this group, after we're long gone,
is much bigger than what we started with.
- And that's what our culture is all about.
- Mm-hmm.
- Teach your talents, give your gifts,
and leave it to someone to continue it.
Don't ever let it die.
- So I know you're still healing.
But we have 20-, 30-, and 40-year-olds in our group
that need both the matriarch and patriarch,
and your presence not just in our meetings
but, you know, in our ceremonial gatherings
is incredibly important. - Oh, honey, baby.
- It's incredibly important that we have back.
- Whew. - When you're ready.
[soft music]
- I can promise you this. I will be back.
When you need me, I will know it.
[voice breaking] And all you have to do...
I do miss you all.
♪ ♪
- Having you back at the last meeting
and you actually feeling good
about that meeting when you left--
- Ooh, I love that meeting. That meeting was powerful.
- I love that meeting. It brought you back to us.
And it let you know that,
hey, this isn't the same toxic space you left.
- Seeing John be so defeated when I first met them
to now getting a little bit of fire,
it's so exciting for me to see
as someone who really cares about John
and has grown to love John,
and it's important that John continues to stay
in those rooms to remind the younger ones
that we're planting the seeds.
Not everything's gonna happen at once.
Thank you so much for having us today.
See you at the show? - Yes.
- Seeing you rise lets us be there with you.
- Oh, I am so--bring them on. - [chuckles]
- You know, when I know people
out there in that audience, whew.
- Love you, John. - Love you, too, darling.
both: Thank you. - I'll see you.
And if I don't see you here,
I'll see you in the spirit world.
- Well, let's not go there. - Well, no, no, no, no.
I mean, death was not a-- we weren't afraid of death.
- Let's make plans for Friday.
- [laughs]
- Hi. - Gloria from Wigs & Grace.
- So nice to meet you.
- This is Jess, my drag daughter.
- So nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you.
- Why, thank you.
- How are you doing? - I'm doing okay.
It's just, like, all real now.
- Mm-hmm. - So...
- I'll take okay. - That's good.
I think you'll feel very good after we give your new hair...
- That's mine right there? - A little haircut.
- Oh, my goodness.
- We're gonna make sure that she fits well
and she feels okay on you.
Turn the fantasy into realness.
- Close your eyes.
- I know I just can't wake up and be in a woman's body
like I want it to be.
I might not ever be the beautiful girl
I am in my dreams, in my head.
- When you look in the mirror, what is the feeling?
- I still see him a lot.
I just see a guy.
I'm growing my hair out,
but it was actually longer than this a few months ago.
But I had a very...
I guess, dark day.
For people who don't understand,
for me being Jess in this body,
to kill yourself, it doesn't have to be physical.
I convinced myself to go get a haircut.
I had to hold back the tears in that seat.
I tried to do whatever I could to kill Jess that day.
[dramatic music]
Being that negative, homophobic, transphobic person
for such a long time, that person's still in my head.
- Do you mind holding that, Sasha, for me right there?
- There's a reason I was that person.
♪ ♪
He felt like he was protecting me.
So I'm trying to forgive that person.
But...
you know...
it's just hard for me to feel okay with myself.
- Two-spirit were the core
of our tribe until the church took them out.
And that's my mission--
to gather all of our two-spirited people together
and let them heal.
Then we can go to the tribe and say,
you need to listen to us.
That's why I've come to this Earth,
to help my people,
and I've got a lot of years ahead of me
to do what I need to do.
♪ ♪
- Conservative politicians in this town--
you give an inch, they want a mile.
[dog barking] Come on, Izz.
And they're just gonna take and take and take
until, you know, the gay community has nothing.
♪ ♪
- In Oklahoma, Christian faithfulness
is weaponized against queer people,
and people wonder why we need protections.
- The truth that God said, thou shalt not.
So that's why we're here.
- Everyone deserves real safety.
♪ ♪
It's literally a life-or-death matter.
So we're gonna continue existing,
being ourselves, being visible.
That is certainly the goal of a drag show.
[Jodie Harsh's "Hectic"]
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Left my house tonight, I'm gonna whet my appetite ♪
♪ Look like dynamite ♪
♪ We're gonna get turnt up, all right ♪
♪ It's gonna get hectic ♪
♪ Left my house tonight, I'm gonna whet my appetite ♪
♪ Look like dynamite ♪
♪ We're gonna get turnt up, all right ♪
♪ Making shapes tonight ♪
♪ Move across the floor like disco light ♪
♪ Bye-bye, nine-to-five, we're gonna rave like '99 ♪
- Mama. - Oh!
- [laughing] - Oh!
Oh!
Bitch, you are painted.
- Hi. - Ooh.
- I know. I love it. I love it.
And they only had to put 169 coats of foundation
on my face to make it look this way.
- I'm so proud of you. - Thank you.
♪ ♪
- Uh-oh.
- Girl.
Honey, baby, my nipples are erect.
I'm having tingles. This is how excited I am.
- Wow. It's gonna be powerful.
I don't think there's been a performance like this
on this show ever.
- It's gonna be a religious experience.
It is, darling.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Gonna rave like '99 ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
- Oh, my God.
We need to do a transgender "Penthouse"
or some kind of hot--
I'm ready to take it off.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Gonna rave like '99 ♪
♪ Move across the floor like disco light ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ - ♪ It's gonna get hectic ♪
[distant cheers and applause]
- Have you seen it yet? - No, not yet.
- Oh, my gosh. You look so beautiful.
[soft music]
I love the lips.
♪ ♪
You look so beautiful. - I'm trying not to cry.
- I'm so happy to see your face.
- I haven't seen it. I just--
I have the anxiety of, I know a mirror moment's coming.
- Yeah.
- And you know I hate my mirror moments, so...
♪ ♪
[sniffles, crying]
♪ ♪
- What do you think?
- [sniffles]
♪ ♪
[sniffles]
I like it. [sniffles]
- Do you see yourself? - Yeah, that's why I'm--
[sniffles]
You know, you see it in big pictures and ginger swaps.
[sniffles]
So not to see him staring back at me, it was nice.
- This is Jess, just...
to the 1,000th percentile. [laughter]
And she's beautiful.
- But it shows that I can... - You're beautiful.
- Can be beautiful.
- You already are beautiful all the time.
You know, a little glitter and extra makeup never hurt anyone.
- Exactly. [clears throat]
- I'm so happy for you.
- Before we go out and rip the roof off of this place,
I just want to say that it has been an honor,
and let's make some magic, baby,
and rip the roof off this tabernacle!
[cheers and applause]
[thunder booming]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- This is amazing.
I cannot believe that we're doing a drag show in a church.
[cheers and applause]
It feels right. It feels very right.
I love it.
It's so nice to take the spaces that were once traumatic
for some of us growing up,
turning them into places of love
where we can dress up however we want
and love each other as loudly as we can.
So thank you for coming, Oklahoma.
[cheers and applause]
- And especially...
a huge debt of gratitude to Father Joshua.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you for opening your doors
to drag queens and our families.
- Please make some noise for the wonderful,
the fabulous...
both: Latrice Royale!
[cheers and applause]
[Vernessa Mitchell's "This Joy"]
- ♪ This joy, this joy, this joy ♪
♪ This joy, this joy, this joy ♪
♪ Through all of life's complications ♪
♪ Through all of life's ups and downs ♪
♪ In every situation ♪
♪ You've got to keep your feet planted on the ground ♪
♪ No matter what the problem ♪
♪ There's nothing he can't do ♪
♪ Just keep the faith, don't hesitate ♪
♪ And we will see you through ♪
♪ I get joy when I think ♪
♪ About what he's done for me ♪
♪ I get joy when I think ♪
♪ About what he's done for me ♪
♪ Hey, he, you can't tell it like I can tell ♪
♪ What he's done for me ♪
♪ No, no, you can't tell it like I can tell ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Listen ♪
♪ Hey, you can't tell ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
♪ Joy down in my soul ♪
♪ I'll get joy ♪
♪ Hey, it making me whole ♪
♪ I'll get joy ♪
♪ You're making me, making me ♪
♪ Making me, making me ♪
♪ This joy has liberated ♪
♪ This joy has liberated me ♪
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Thank you. Thank you so much.
♪ ♪
And we are so happy to have you here with us this evening
to celebrate the ministry of drag.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- When I was little, there was one man
in the little town I lived in who was gay.
I remember him.
I've remembered him my whole life.
Thank you.
By doing this, I want to put my face out there
because I want to be able to be there
to help other people in Bartlesville.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[telephone ringing]
- You have one new message.
- Hey, it's Randy.
I need a venue still for the drag show.
I've called you three times now.
Would someone please call me back?
[Reba McEntire's "Why Haven't I Heard from You"]
♪ ♪
- Come on, girl, let it loose.
- ♪ Back in 1876, an old boy named Bell ♪
♪ Invented a contraption that we know so well ♪
♪ By the 1950s, they're in everybody's home ♪
♪ That crazy little thing they call the telephone ♪
♪ Now there's one on every corner ♪
♪ In the back of every bar ♪
♪ You can get one in your briefcase ♪
♪ On a plane, or in your car ♪
♪ So tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ Tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ I said, now, darling ♪ - ♪ Darling ♪
- ♪ Honey ♪ - ♪ Honey ♪
- ♪ What is your excuse? ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
♪ There better be a flood, a landslide of mud ♪
♪ A fire that burns up the wires ♪
♪ And thunder so loud with a black funnel cloud ♪
♪ A natural disaster I know nothing about ♪
♪ Tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ Tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ I said, now, darling ♪ - ♪ Darling ♪
- ♪ Honey ♪ - ♪ Honey ♪
- ♪ What is your excuse? ♪
♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ Tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ Tell me why ♪ - ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ Haven't I ♪ - ♪ Haven't I ♪
- ♪ Heard from you ♪
- ♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
- ♪ I said, now, darling ♪ - ♪ Darling ♪
- ♪ Honey ♪ - ♪ Honey ♪
- ♪ What is your excuse? ♪
♪ Why haven't I heard from you? ♪
[cheers and applause]
[telephone ringing]
[light music]
♪ ♪
- Ladies and gentlemen, Pussy Willow Royale!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- So, when they first contacted me and we were talking,
I was thinking to myself, why me?
Like, I'm like everybody else.
I just live my life.
But the more I thought about it and the more that I looked
around my community,
I realized that in Bartlesville,
there's a lot of people
who honestly don't think we exist.
The reason I wanted to do this
is because I want to promote and push
people to come out of their comfort zones
and just be yourselves.
Don't say, oh, this is my friend Sam.
Say, this is my partner. This is my husband.
[cheers and applause]
This is my husband...
25 years.
I said I wasn't gonna look at you
because you're gonna make me cry.
I cannot begin to tell you what we've experienced,
and it really has lit a fire under me.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- When I put on my female,
it's almost like my warrior energy.
I'm speaking for people that can't speak.
To my two-spirit people,
I do have your back, I do love you,
and I'm gonna do everything in my power
to make sure your world is a better place.
- Please welcome to the stage,
it's Priyanka and her daughter Spindly Delight.
♪ ♪
[Raye Zaragoza's "Hold That Spirit"]
- ♪ Do you ever feel the bite ♪
♪ Of the wolves that haunt the night? ♪
♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Do you ever hate the sting ♪
♪ Of feeling everything? ♪
♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Cross your heart and hope to die ♪
♪ Look that monster in the eye ♪
♪ Hold on lightning ♪
♪ Don't close your eyes when it's frightening ♪
♪ Let that thunder grow ♪
♪ Through the ages ♪
♪ You open up all the cages ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Have you ever felt alone ♪
♪ In the shadow of your home? ♪
♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Have you ever felt like you ♪
♪ Could fall and slip right through? ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Cross your heart and hope to die ♪
♪ Look that monster in the eye ♪
♪ Hold on lightning ♪
♪ Don't close your eyes when it's frightening ♪
♪ Let that thunder grow ♪
♪ Through the ages, you open up all the cages ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪ - ♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
- ♪ Cross your heart and hope to die ♪
♪ Look that monster in the eye ♪
♪ Cross your heart and hope to die ♪
♪ Look that monster in the eye ♪
♪ Cross your heart and hope to die ♪
♪ Look that monster in the eye ♪
♪ Hold on lightning ♪
♪ Don't close your eyes when it's frightening ♪
♪ Let that thunder grow ♪
♪ Through the ages ♪
♪ We open up all the cages ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪
♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
- ♪ Hold that spirit ♪ - ♪ Hold that spirit ♪
- ♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
♪ Hold that spirit ♪ - ♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
- ♪ Hold that spirit ♪
- ♪ Hold that spirit close ♪
[cheers and applause]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Oh... Oh, my God.
I can't tell you what a wonderful roller coaster
this has been.
I needed support.
I needed to tell my story.
Uh-huh.
And I needed to plant some seeds.
This has sparked a fire in me that I used to have,
and it's coming back.
Look out.
Thank you, darling. Thank you all.
Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- What?
- That was huge for our people.
Huge.
You pulled me off the edge, and you said, you can do it, girl.
You can do it.
I can't tell you what that meant to me.
This has given me such power to kick their asses.
- [chuckles]
- You look so fantastic. You're glowing.
Try to savor every moment... - Yeah.
- And spread the joy that you feel...
- Mm-hmm.
- Because I know there's people like you
in that audience who need it. - Oh, yeah.
There's a part of me that still says,
you're doing it wrong.
Don't make a fool of yourself.
I feel like
hopefully this helps the people who I've hurt,
who I was a toxic male to.
This is my soul.
This is okay.
♪ ♪
- From the House of Velour, welcome to the stage,
Jess A. Velour and Sasha Velour.
Make some noise!
[cheers and applause]
[Florence + The Machine's "Spectrum"]
- ♪ When we first came here ♪
♪ We were cold, and we were clear ♪
♪ With no colors on our skin ♪
♪ We were light and paper thin ♪
♪ When we first came here ♪
♪ We were cold, and we were clear ♪
♪ With no colors on our skin ♪
♪ Till we let the spectrum in ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ We are shining ♪
♪ And we'll never be afraid again ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ We are shining ♪
♪ And we'll never be afraid again ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ And we are shining ♪
♪ And we'll never be afraid again ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ We are shining ♪
♪ And we'll never be afraid again ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
♪ And every color illuminates ♪
♪ We are shining ♪
♪ And we'll never be afraid again ♪
♪ Say my name ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Make some noise for my gorgeous daughter!
[cheers and applause]
She is a beautiful woman onstage,
in life, and in my family.
Make some noise for Jess A. Velour.
[cheers and applause]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- First off, I want to say hi, everyone, I'm Jess.
And I can't--
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Four weeks ago,
I wouldn't even have went out in public as myself.
Six weeks ago, I tried to erase Jess.
♪ ♪
I can't thank you enough for what you've done for me.
[voice breaking] Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- You are a blessing exactly as you are,
and we are grateful that you are here
showing yourself in all your glory.
Give it up for my beautiful daughter.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Take a turn down the aisle, my dear.
Show them all who you are.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- You look so beautiful.
♪ ♪
- You didn't think you'd get here this quick?
- No, I just thought I would be telling my story
and maybe pushing me
to maybe get out of my comfort zone.
But I didn't think I'd love me for me in four weeks.
But... - You've surprised yourself.
Just think what you could do next.
- Thank you. - You are a goddess.
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
- I love that you brought us with you up there onstage.
- Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
- I mean, it's just fabulous.
- It's our people. It's our people.
- Oh, he see a whole nother side of you.
I ain't gonna say it in church.
- He's got...
- Oh, yeah. - Boobages.
- Perky, perky, porky, perky bosoms.
- Porkable boobs. - "Porkable"?
Oh, now, see, that's a whole different kind of--
- This logic of...
let's just make ourselves very small,
and then we'll be able to live--
no one should have to be like that.
- I'm glad they went with a short dress
because you do have amazing legs.
- It's serving Disney Princess.
- A single drag show may not change the world,
but it can spark change.
- It can be political, family friendly.
It can even show that love is possible.
- And, in these divided times, that there's hope
that queer people, queer love, and queer joy
will someday shine
in all sacred spaces.
[Kesha's "Praying"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Well, you almost had me fooled ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Told me that I was nothing without you ♪
♪ Oh, but after everything you've done ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I can thank you for how strong I have become ♪
♪ Because you brought the flames ♪
♪ And you put me through hell ♪
♪ I had to learn how to fight for myself ♪
♪ And we both know all the truth I could tell ♪
♪ I'll just say this as I wish you farewell ♪
♪ I hope you're somewhere praying ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ I hope your soul is changing ♪
♪ Changing ♪
♪ I hope you find your peace ♪
♪ Falling on your knees ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm proud of who I am ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ No more monsters, I can breathe again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ And you said that I was done ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Well, you were wrong ♪
♪ And now the best is yet to come ♪
♪ 'Cause I can make it on my own ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ And I don't need you ♪
♪ I found a strength I've never known ♪
♪ I'll bring thunder, I'll bring rain ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ When I'm finished, they won't even know your name ♪
♪ You brought the flames, and you put me through hell ♪
♪ I had to learn how to fight for myself ♪
♪ And we both know all the truth I can tell ♪
♪ I'll just say this as a wish you farewell ♪
♪ I hope you're somewhere praying ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ I hope your soul is changing ♪
♪ Changing ♪
♪ I hope you find your peace ♪
♪ Falling on your knees ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ Oh, sometimes ♪
♪ I pray for you at night ♪
♪ Someday ♪
♪ Maybe you'll see the light ♪
♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh, some say in life ♪
♪ You're gonna get what you give ♪
♪ But some things ♪
♪ Only God can forgive ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I hope you're somewhere praying ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ I hope your soul is changing ♪
♪ Changing ♪
♪ I hope you find your peace ♪
♪ Falling on your knees ♪
♪ Praying ♪
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[bright tone]