As much as the conventions are a chance to win voters over,
the real point is to pump up people to vote.
And no one knows pump better than these queens...
-(explosion) -♪ ♪
...helping to turn out more votes, in their own way.
You might have seen these fabulous ladies
strutting their stuff on the latest season
of RuPaul's Drag Race.
(ululating)
But now they're here on a mission
to get people to vote.
Okay, so, first things first.
Who's tucked right now?
Oh, absolutely not, uh-uh.
-Oh, God, no. -No.
It's unnecessary roughness in these crazy times.
The illusion is that I am tucked.
Stand up, Heidi. Show 'em.
(laughing, whooping)
Had to see the Bov.
So if you're untucked then I'm untucked,
which means this bra is out of here!
-Yeah! -Yeah!
-They're free! -Let the dogs loose!
Now that my ladies were free, it was time to move
from liberation to representation.
So, y'all know that we've been hearing
from a lot of real people during these conventions,
but... so far, we haven't heard from drag queens.
Because they didn't ask us, girl!
(laughter)
I think I would definitely give shows at the convention.
I think it's very important to be a leader
within our community.
And did you know that one out of five LGBTQIA people
in our country are not registered to vote?
So we could reach a lot of people--
one out of five is a lot of (bleep) people.
That's like Queer Eye without Antoni.
-Why is that? -I think that people
don't think that it's important.
And a hundred million people
did not vote in the last presidential election,
which is... which is wild!
A hundred million? Girl!
They should make a law where you can't line up to buy an iPhone
unless you show your "I Voted" sticker.
-Yeah! -And no matter what side
of the aisle you fall on, it's all gonna affect you.
It is called the Circle of Life, Mama.
Um, everything affects us all,
-so we are in this together. -If you want better schools,
you got to vote.
If you want better roads, you've got to vote.
If you want to make sure
that our transgender brothers and sisters
are gonna be taken care of, you got to vote
to make sure these things are happening.
'Cause our rights are being taken away,
and we got to make sure we vote to make sure that they aren't.
And drag queens have always been political activists
throughout history.
They were at Stonewall,
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
helped fight the HIV crisis in the '80s,
and they've carried on a Founding Fathers tradition
of wearing wigs.
So why not carry that torch
into the most important election of our time?
I'm the co-chair of Drag Out the Votes,
and what we're doing is,
we're getting all those drag ambassadors,
and we're sending them out with social media content,
videos, PSA scripts, resources for voter registration
and more, honey.
We're doing shows,
and we're getting people excited about voting.
If you are excited about something,
people will start to feel that excitement.
It's, like, contagious.
No coronavirus here, but, uh, it's very contagious.
We can pull an all-nighter, then we can go to the polls.
We'll have a little party.
Chicken wings.
The poll party.
Ho out the vote. Ho out the vote.
-Ho out the vote. -See, now, that...
(laughs)
That is a campaign I think people could get behind.
But let's go back a bit. You said something
about becoming a drag ambassador.
So, how does one... become that?
Yeah, why? You-you want to... you want to be a drag queen?
Well, I mean, if you're looking.
I don't really have anything prepared.
Well, maybe this one character I've been working on.
-Oh. -Oh, she gives characters.
SLOAN: Y'all ready?
ALL: Yes.
(imitates trumpet fanfare)
I am Kitty Glitter.
Oh.
(growls)
Look over there!
SLOAN: Perhaps my drag concept did need some work.
But I was in luck.
I'm-a get you ready, honey.
SLOAN: If I was going to drag out the vote,
I needed my fairy drag mothers to help me get ready.
More blush, more blush.
Dulcé, give us a little fish face.
Yeah, there it is. There it is.
SLOAN: More hairspray. More hairspray!
(coughing)
Oh. Woman!
SLOAN: So, how do I look?
Now, that's drag, Mama.
Yas!
SLOAN: Now that my face was beat for the gods,
it was time to shoot my first PSA
as a drag ambassador.
Hi.
This is Flirteenth Amendment here,
telling you to ho out that vote.
Drag queens are known to tuck,
but I want you to tuck your vote into that ballot box.
(pops tongue)
And why should you register to vote?
It's the best way to use your voice.
(vocalizing)
(glass breaks)
Vote. Vote. Vote.
Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.
Vote. Vote. Vote.
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