Drag Race’s Mo Heart Opens Up About Painful Time in Conversion Therapy
Rupaul’s Drag Race is a TV franchise with serious staying power. That’s because, in addition to the drama and incredible runway looks, it also tugs at viewers’ heartstrings by airing the struggles and triumphs of queer people just trying to exist as their true, authentic selves.
Case in point: Mo Heart opened up about her painful convection therapy experiences on this week’s episode of Drag Race UK vs.
the World.As the queens were getting ready for their runway presentation — which saw them in incredible looks based on art from Warhol to Dali — the mirror chat turned to the subject of growing up gay in their respective countries.
Drag Race Amsterdam alum Janey Jacké shared how, having been bullied for being queer as a child, she was supported by her parents who moved her to a part of the country where she’d be safe.“It was very clear from a very young age that I was very homosexual,” she recalled. “So, I’m very happy and very grateful for my parents to be so open-minded, that it’s more about the happiness and the love rather than sticking to certain religious values.”Mo Heart, in turn, shared a much more painful, traumatic, and ultimately inspiring story of growing up gay in a Christian church.
