Howdy, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! Immediately, I’m chatting with Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren.
The duo have gained an Emmy, Peabody Award, Tv Academy Honor and three GLAAD Awards as creators and govt producers of the HBO docuseries We’re Right here, whose fourth season premiered April 26.
Season 4 follows famend drag queens Sasha Velour, Priyanka, Jaida Essence Corridor and Latrice Royale as they proceed the present’s mission of spreading love and connection by the artwork of drag throughout small-town America. This season, the queens work with contributors in Murfreesboro, TN, and Tulsa, OK, and surrounding cities and take an in-depth, immersive have a look at current anti-LGBTQ+ laws and the impact it has had on the group.
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Ingram and Warren additionally created and govt produced the 2023 queer-inclusive romantic docuseries Swiping America, which follows a various group of singles from New York Metropolis as they use a relationship app to mirror on their private experiences with intercourse, relationships, love and connection. The present is streaming on Max.
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Warren is an leisure lawyer and advocate who served as co-chair of GLAAD for 5 years and was the recipient of GLAAD’s Stephen F Kolzak Award. Ingram is an artist, advocate and artistic director who led an award-winning homosexual blood-donation marketing campaign for GLAAD commissioned by Saatchi that’s a part of the everlasting assortment at MOMA in New York Metropolis.
On this episode, Ingram, Warren and I talk about why a present like We’re Right here is vital, how they defend themselves from vitriol and hazard and why it’s important to proceed the combat for human rights. Have a pay attention above.
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