- RuPaul's Drag Race star Shangela has started a fund to help out of work drag performers.
- Feed the Queens aims to raise $100k—donate here.
RuPaul's Drag Race star Shangela has started a charity fund called Feed the Queens, which aims to "galvanize support in the fight against food insecurity among drag queens, drag kings and trans drag performers within the nightlife and performing arts communities." The goal is simple: raise $100,000 to help out of work drag performers across the country.
Speaking to People, Shangela said “I thought if we could help out 1,000 queens across America, to give each a $100 gift card for groceries. We could really make a big step towards fighting hunger in the drag community.”
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“Drag queens are truly some of the most resourceful people in the world, but we have to remember that our community is a marginalized community indeed, with a large population of marginalized people," Shangela explained. "We are accustomed to not always being able to have access to resources. Not only because we're drag queens, but think about the different layers in our drag community. We have a lot of queens of color, myself included, from various racial backgrounds. We have people from different socioeconomic backgrounds. We have trans performers. And you know that statistically, resources aren't always allocated to those groups in ways that they are to some others.”
Feed the Queens has partnered with The Actors Fund to help out with logistics and make sure a portion of money raised goes to performers from communities of color—and Shangela's working with an advisory board that includes Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Frankie Grande, who says “No artist should go hungry because the world took away their stage.”
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