‘Queens to the rescue’, the new format of Atresplayer Premium, aims to make the LGTBIQ+ stories of small towns visible
With the aim of broadening the view of LGTBIQ+ people beyond the big city, “Queens to the rescue” is born, a new original format of Atresplayer Premium, which opens on the platform tomorrow, a day after the celebration of the state demonstration of the Pride in Madrid. A program that, according to its creators, was born as a result of “cry for help” from people who want to live “their gender identity or sexual orientation” with “absolute freedom” in rural environments and small towns where “what will she say” In abundance. There will be a total of six “six stories” deliveries offered on the platform on a monthly basis, showing a different reality of the group that has not had it so easy to come out.
In this work, the drag queens Pupi Poisson, Sharonne and Estrella Xtravaganza, accompanied by Supremme de Luxe, will tour different parts of Spain to reveal different LGTBIQ+ stories. In the first chapter, they will land in Roda de Berà (Tarragona) to meet Hugo, a trans boy to whom confessing his identity caused his father to retract his word and ridicule him in the city. The ‘queens’ will help him regain his confidence and close the open wound in his father, in addition to setting an example for his trans friend Lucía, who has also suffered aggression and finds in Hugo the mirror to look at herself.
“It has been very exciting. It has been a mental journey. I’ve heard all kinds of stories and realities. And I’ve been through situations that I hadn’t experienced. I’m from the city. It’s not just the ‘what will they say’, but it can affect your life. You can lose your job and it can be complicated for your personal development,” confesses presenter and actress Supremme de Luxe, who also says that many of the protagonists of ‘Queens to the rescue’ are unable to leave their place of origin for financial reasons. However, the communicator warns that there are also cities in which ‘other realities’ are lived, that ‘they live and integrate’.
For the director of entertainment programs at Atresmedia Televisión, Carmen Ferreiro, the new format of the communication group “demands equality, dialogue and understanding”. “We have received requests for help from people of the LGTBIQ+ collective who needed support. And we wanted to help these people to live their gender identity or sexual orientation in absolute freedom, as anyone can,” he says. The directive emphasizes the importance of the project, where emotion will be very present and it will be very difficult to “There are six stories in which the protagonists try once and for all to be happy with their bodies and their lives. To be accepted by their family and environment,” he emphasizes.
After the cry for help, the drags will arrive in the cities to revolutionize the local population and with a clear message: in addition to wearing heels, dresses or wigs, the queens promote an artistic movement that stirs consciences and has such important values such as integration, freedom of speech or self-love. It will also be a challenge for families and friends, who will plunge into each of the stories.
“These are stories that also take place in large cities. In the cities, everything is lived more intensely because fewer people live and survive than in the big cities, we have already taken it out, that is ‘what will they say'”, says the director of space, Lola Ibarreta, explaining that the protagonists of ‘Queens to the rescue’ want to “kick, get rid of that and get on stage and shout ‘here I am'”.
Exactly, the chapters of this format end on stage, with a protest party for the entire city and region where they will arrive together with the ‘queens’. Along the way, personal stories of misunderstanding, non-acceptance, overcoming or forgiveness will be discovered. “You have to go to the countryside and tell these stories. Use drag as a way of empowerment and free yourself from burdens. It’s very good and it works,” says Ibarreta. “I’ve been through a lot of things that I’ve been identified with,” Pupi Poisson adds for her part. In these first episodes, the program has also made stops in Cálig (Castellón), Benilloba (Alicante), Landete (Cuenca), Linares (Jaén) and Campaspero (Valladolid).
Source: La Verdad
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