Chappell Roan Is Seeking Local Drag Performers as Openers on Her Upcoming Tour

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If you’re a drag artist who has dreamed of sharing the stage with rising pop girlie Chappell Roan, we have three words for you: good luck, babe. The singer is now taking applications from drag performers to accompany her onstage during her tour this summer.

Roan posted to X on Tuesday to share a Google Form for drag artists to be considered for an opening spot on her tour, which is a hilariously DIY setup for someone who is rapidly ascending to mainstream pop stardom. But that’s what we love about her, and it felt especially fitting that the form was paired with a photo of the iconic drag queen Divine holding a gun in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos.

According to the information provided on the form, Roan is seeking local opening acts for tour stops, mostly in the Midwest and South from May 19 to June 13. Each show will feature two local openers lip-syncing to “popular high-energy pop songs,” but the form does not mention how the gigs will be compensated. Applicants are also asked about their experience hosting/emceeing drag shows, their favorite places to perform in their city, and recommendations for other local drag performers.

Highlighting lesser-recognized queer communities is part of Roan’s mission as an artist and one she’s spoken about previously. In an interview with ABC News, she remarked that people tend to “put all midwesterners in one type of category.”

“There are drag queens, there are people who are trans, there are massive queer communities that are just kind of hidden away in these teeny tiny towns,” she said. “And I feel like that’s who my real community is and I feel like that’s what the community feels like at the shows — all the people who maybe aren’t allowed to be out and proud all the time.”

Especially at a time when anti-drag sentiment is on the rise, we have to give Roan props for insisting on showcasing the fact that queer communities truly exist everywhere.

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