Latrice Royale brings kindness (and queerness!) wherever she goes
Latrice Royale since she first burst onto the scene as one of Drag Race’s brightest and most beloved stars. Now, as one of the newest hosts of HBO’s We’re Here, Latrice has teamed up with fellow drag notables Sasha Velour, Priyanka and Jaida Essence Hall to spread more kindness (and queerness) around the country.
Season 4 of the show takes direct aim at the threat to our beloved drag, nonbinary, and trans communities posed by those seeking to wash out our rainbowed narrative and miscategorize it as a threat to children and citizens.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Latrice was born in the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles and raised by a single mother in the early 1970s.
As discussed earlier this year on Maddy Morphosis’s Give it To Me Straight, before joining the color guard at her local high school, Latrice had to seek student body approval prior to becoming the school’s first-ever male member.
This, she says, was what lead into drag.Her color guard career (yes, baton twirling does not stop on the sidelines of the high school football field!) led her to Fort Lauderdale, where she began entertaining friends with her impression of In Living Color’s Wanda.In 2011, Latrice got her “big break” when she was featured on Season 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
