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Like a true queen, Symone delivered one of the most powerful moments in ‘Drag Race’ herstory
With bars and community spaces closed for much of 2020, Reggie Gavin, better know as Symone, helped countless LGBTQ folks feel connected by popping up on televisions each week on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13.For many, that weekly dose of drag was a real lifeline, and Symone gave us life and then some–so much so that she took home the crown and the title of America’s next drag superstar.To have kept us gagging throughout a pandemic is a feat in and of itself, but Symone did even more than that when she took a “Fascinating Fascinators” runway challenge in episode nine and gave an ode to the Black Lives Matter movement.Following the Snatch Game where she delivered an unexpected and exciting interpretation of Harriet Tubman, Symone worked the